Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring and Summer 2021!
SPRING 2021
Atiles, Osoria, J. SOC 275, 479
Burgos, A. HIST/LLS 280
Ettinger, S. TA-LLS 279
Garcia, A. CW 106
Lira, N. LLS 279, 479
Mora, J. TA-LLS 100
Ngo, F. GWS 295/LLS 296
Nuñez Cortez, I. ...
The Fall 2021 Newsletter! Meet our new Chair and faculty, read about our student and faculty accomplishments, and happy retirement to Prof. Romero!
Prof. Sandra Ruiz receives 2021 Conrad Humanities Scholar Award
LLS Graduating Class of 2021
LLS Scholarships and Undergraduate Research Award Winners
Prof. Natalie Lira Awarded Latina/Latino Studies Teaching Award
Latina/Latino Studies major Issy Marquez receives Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award
Congratulations to Prof. Sandra Ruiz for being named a 2021 Conrad Humanities Scholar! The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years. Prof. Ruiz plans to use the award to continue her work on several book projects, including a book of...
On May 1, 2021 we celebrated the graduation of the LLS major Class of 2021 in a Zoom symposium and celebration. All LLS majors are required to complete a senior paper or a thesis on a topic of their interest related to Latina/o Studies. The senior class spent all of spring semester working on their senior projects or working one-on one with a professor over the course of 2 semesters on the senior...
More Department News
- The Department of Latina/Latino Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for two full-time, non-tenure track Instructors/Lecturers for the 2021-22 academic year. Start date of August 16, 2021. Candidates are required to...
- Prof. Sandra Ruiz has been awarded a Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellowship for the 2021–22 academic year for her project titled, “Minoritarian Pedagogy: Psychoanalytic Affections in the Space of Aesthetics.” The...
- Professor Natalie Lira has been awarded the 2020-21 Latina/Latino Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award honors the Department’s best teachers. Professor Lira is an engaging and dedicated teacher who has had a tremendous...
Calendar
LLS 240Provides an introduction to Latina/o popular culture in the United States. Specific modes of popular culture might include mass media, music, film, video, performance, and other expressive forms. Lecture and readings are in English.
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 370Addresses the theoretical, methodological, and ultimately political implications and questions generated by a range of ethnographic materials on Latina/os.
LLS 220General overview of international migration to the United States, using Latin American migration to the U.S., especially the Midwest, as the focal point.
