Check out our Spring 2023 newsletter and meet our new faculty and staff, and read about our faculty accomplishments.
Alumni Spotlights
Prof. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada co-leads HRI Interseminars Initiative Project
Professor Nic Flores Named LEAP Scholar
LLS Faculty and Affiliates Among 2022-23 HRI Campus Fellows and Interseminars Faculty Conveners
Natalie Lira receives 2022 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award
- We are accepting applications for our teaching assistantships for the 2023-2024 academic year. The application deadline is March 20, 2023. Visit here for more details.
- The Department of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for two Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associates. These are one-year appointments with a start date of August 16, 2023. For complete details visit...
More Department News
- Latina/Latino Studies Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada was selected to co-lead the second Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Interseminars Initiative project with colleagues Professor...
- Congratulations to Professor Nic Flores for being named a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) scholar by the College of LAS. Flores specializes in public and sexual health, HIV/AIDS...
- LLS congratulates faculty member Natalie Lira upon receiving a 2022 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award. The Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure identifies particularly excellent cases during the promotion review process, noting...
Calendar
LLS 100Interdisciplinary introduction to the basis for a Latina/Latino ethnicity in the United States.
LLS 238Focuses on the history and theory of Latina/o social movements.
LLS 355Explores the history of racial classification in the U.S.
LLS 479The idea of race has historically been central to how Western cultures conceptualize and think about human difference. This course examines the historical significance of race through one domain of knowledge: medicine.
