Latina/Latino Studies professors, graduate and undergraduate students are being consistently recognized for their scholarship, teaching excellence, and commitment to student success.
2025-2026
Faculty
- Professor Mirelsie Velázquez, Campus Fellowship from Humanities Research Institute
- Professor Mirelsie Velázquez, Campus Research Board Grant
Affiliates
- Rochelle Gutiérrez, elected to National Academy of Education
Alumni
- Celina Villanueva (BA, ’08, Latina/Latino studies), LAS Outstanding Young Alumni Award
Students
- Cecelia Escobar, 2025 Summer Fulbright Summer Institute
2023-2024
Faculty
- Professor Gilberto Rosas, Honorable Mention for 2024 American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize
- Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada, National Humanities Fellow
- Professor Natalie Lira, Conrad Humanities Scholar
- Professor José de la Garza Valenzuela, 2023 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
- Professor Mirelsie Velázquez, Legacía Award
- Professor Mirelsie Velázquez, 2023 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Book Award
Affiliates
- Professor Mónica García Blizzard, 2024 Honorable Mention Latino Book Awards
- Professor Yuridia Ramírez, 2023 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
Students
- TA Lydia Socorro Alvarez, Legacía Award
- TA Lydia Socorro Alvarez, Fulbright U.S. Student Award
- Undergraduate students Alexa Rodriguez, Zion Trinidad, Judith Hernandez, Nadia Alpuche, Trio McNair Scholars
2022-2021
Faculty
- Professor Nic Flores, LEAP Scholar
- Professor Natalie Lira, Helen Corley Petit Scholar
- Professor Natalie Lira, Distinguished Campus Promotion Award
- Professor Natalie Lira, Excellence in Latina/Latino Studies Teaching Award
- Professor Sandra Ruiz, Humanities Research Institute Fellowship
- Professor Sandra Ruiz, Conrad Humanities Scholar
Students
- Issy Marquez, Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award
2020-2019
Faculty
- Professor Sandra Ruiz, LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- Professor Sandra Ruiz Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Dr. Yuridia Ramirez, Illinois Distinguished and Chancellor’s Emerging Scholars award