Sandra Ruiz has been named a 2020-2021 Helen Corley Petit Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. The award was endowed by Helen Corley Petit to recognize the scholarship and teaching of early career scholars.
Alum Monica Gonzalez Ybarra Returns to Campus as an Assistant Professor
Moisés Contreras Heads to Italy on a Fulbright
Training Students in Immigration Law
Summer Camp for Girls in the Geosciences
More than a haircut: Father and transgender son Zeke Acosta
Latina/Latino Studies major alum Dr. Monica Gonzalez Ybarra returned to campus this year as an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She graduated with a PhD in 2018 from the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr.- The Department invites applications for teaching assistantships for the 2020-2021 academic year. For more information, visit https://lls.illinois.edu/award/teaching-assistantships.
More Department News
- Daissy Dominguez (Class of 2010, Political Science major) of the Dominguez Legal Justice Center has been an amazing mentor to several of our Latina/Latino Studies majors over the years, providing students with hands-on experience working on immigration legal cases.
- Due to little change in the lack of diversity in the Geosciences, a summer camp for girls was created, designed, organized, and implemented by PhD student Aida Guhlincozzi, a Geography major and Latina/Latino Studies minor, and Geology PhD candidate Julia Cisneros.
Calendar
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.
LLS 357Examines Latina/o, Asian-American, African-American, and Indigenous stories of displacement, (im)migration, and settlement.
LLS 238Focuses on the history and theory of Latina/o social movements.
