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...
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
In Memoriam: Professor Dara Goldman
In Memoriam: Dr. Rolando Hinojosa-SmithThe Department of Latina/Latino Studies celebrates the life and legacy of Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Check out our Fall 2022 newsletter and meet our new interim chair and faculty, read about our student and faculty accomplishments..
We have many LLS faculty and affiliates represented in the 2022-23 Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellows Program and Interseminars Initiative. The campus fellows include Janett Barragán Miranda (“Hungering for Equality: The Community of Mexican-Origin from Post-WWII to Civil Rights”, ...
More Department News
- 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 prevention, ethnography, comparative ethnic and racial studies, and...
- 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...
- 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...
Calendar
LLS 242Survey of literature by and about people of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Latina/o descent in the United States. Taught in English.
Tuesday & Thursday 2:00-3:20
LLS 343Examines how populations are criminalized due to race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and immigration status. Readings analyze how laws are created and normalized.
LLS 473This interdisciplinary seminar examines the social determinants of US racial and ethnic health inequalities through the lens of (im)migration.
LLS 100Interdisciplinary introduction to the basis for a Latina/Latino ethnicity in the United States.
