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, 2022. For complete details visit...
Check out our Fall 2021 newsletter and first E-newsletter!
Full/Associate Professor Search in LLS
More than A Scholar: A Symposium to Honor Dr. Edna Viruell-Fuentes’ Legacy in Scholarship, Public Health, and Higher Education
Prof. Sandra Ruiz receives 2021 Conrad Humanities Scholar Award
LLS Graduating Class of 2021
LLS Scholarships and Undergraduate Research Award Winners
Check out our Fall 2021 newsletter and first E-newsletter! Meet our new Chair and faculty, read about our student and faculty accomplishments, and learn about the new Edna Viruell-Fuentes memorial fund and the Jorge Chapa memorial scholarship...- The Latina/Latino Studies Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has an opening for a full-time Full/Associate Professor. The full announcement can be found at https://go.illinois.edu/LLSFacultysearch. For full consideration, all required...
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.
