The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is happy to announce the recipients of the scholarships and award for 2023.
Adriana Serrano Matsumoto is the winner of the 2023 LLS Undergraduate Research Award. Adriana is a sophomore Political Science and Latina/Latino Studies double major with...
2023 LLS Scholarships and Undergraduate Research Award Winners
José de la Garza Valenzuela and Yuridia Ramírez Receive ACLS Fellowships
Alumni Spotlights
Prof. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada co-leads HRI Interseminars Initiative Project
Professor Nic Flores Named LEAP Scholar
LLS Faculty and Affiliates Among 2022-23 HRI Campus Fellows and Interseminars Faculty Conveners
Prof. Mirelsie Velázquez has received a grant from the Campus Research Board to work on her second book project, “Genealogies of Empowerment and the Makings of Home: Puerto Rican/Latina Activism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1970-1992.” Congratulations, Dr. Velázquez!- Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for Fall 2022! Burgos, A. HIST 390 Callesano, S. SPAN 308 Cervantes-Gomez, X. SPAN 246 De La Garza, J. LLS 242 Ettinger, S. TA-LLS 100 Fernandez Doig, F. TA-LLS 100 Garcia, A. CW 106 Gonzalez, M. CI 415, 536 Gutierrez...
More Department News
- Congratulations to Prof. Mirelsie Velázquez for being chosen as a Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Summer Fellow! The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Summer Faculty...
- Latina/Latino Studies faculty affiliate Yuridia Ramírez and Latina/Latino Studies professor José de la Garza Valenzuela have been awarded 2023 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships....
- Latina/Latino Studies Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada was selected to co-lead the second Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Interseminars Initiative project with colleagues Professor...
Calendar
LLS 100Interdisciplinary introduction to the basis for a Latina/Latino ethnicity in the United States.
LLS 238Focuses on the history and theory of Latina/o social movements.
LLS 355Explores the history of racial classification in the U.S.
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.
