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 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associates. These are one year appointments with a start date of August 16, 2020.
Moisés Contreras Heads to Italy on a Fulbright
Training Students in Immigration Law
More than a haircut: Father and transgender son Zeke Acosta
Summer Camp for Girls in the Geosciences
The U.S. Census and the Citizenship Question
RICANNESS: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance
Deathscapes: Mapping Race and Violence in Settler StatesProfessor Jonathan X. Inda collaborates with scholars from the UK, Australia and Canada on state violence of racialized groups
Progreso Latino: LLS Students Present Research on Health, Wellness, and EducationLLS students present research at Undergraduate Research Week
Professor Sandra Ruiz Receives Undergraduate Teaching Awards
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.
Our former student outreach coordinator and recent LLS major alum Zeke Acosta was featured on "Good Morning America" about being transgender and the support from his father and family.
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.
- 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 2019! Spring 2019
Calendar
LLS 473This interdisciplinary seminar examines the social determinants of US racial and ethnic health inequalities through the lens of (im)migration.
LLS 365Focuses on how Chicanas/Latinas describe their own experiences and how they both understand and negotiate their sense of self, and centers on the new crop of memoir and autobiography, as represented in the most recent texts by well-established Chicana writers, such a
LLS 235Interdisciplinary exploration of the racial politics of reproduction in the United States with an emphasis on how ideologies of race, class, and citizenship shape meanings and experiences of reproduction, pregnancy, and motherhood.
