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  • Accepting Applications for 2023-2024 Postdoctoral Research Associates

    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...
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  • Prof. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada co-leads HRI Interseminars Initiative Project
    Latina/Latino Studies Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada was selected to co-lead the second Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Interseminars Initiative project with colleagues Professor...
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  • Professor Nic Flores Named LEAP Scholar
    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...
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  • Natalie Lira receives 2022 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award
    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...
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  • Activists marching in street
    LLS 100

    Intro Latina/Latino Studies

    Interdisciplinary introduction to the basis for a Latina/Latino ethnicity in the United States.
    Course Description for LLS 100
  • Young Lords marching in street
    LLS 238

    Latina/o Social Movements

    Focuses on the history and theory of Latina/o social movements.

    Course Description for LLS 238
  • Photographic collage of people of mixed race
    LLS 355

    Race and Mixed Race

    Explores the history of racial classification in the U.S.

    Course Description for LLS 355
  • Healthcare worker tending to patient
    LLS 479

    Race, Medicine, and Society

    The 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.

    Course Description for LLS 479

Department of Latina/Latino Studies
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1207 W. Oregon Street
Urbana, IL 61801    MC-136

Phone: (217) 265-0370
Fax: (217) 244-4526
Email: lls-studies@illinois.edu

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