The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is pleased to announce that professor Mirelsie Velázquez has been awarded a 2025-26 Campus Fellowship from the Humanities Research Institute for her project “Genealogies of Empowerment and the Makings of Home: Latina/o Activism at the University of Illinois, 1970–1992." Campus Fellowships are awarded to Illinois faculty and graduate students who spend the year engaged in research and writing and participate in the HRI Fellows Seminar. Faculty fellows are provided with one semester of release time and research funds. Professor Velázquez was one of seven faculty members awarded the fellowship. This year's theme was "Story and Place". Projects were selected that use multiple mediums and that help us reckon with the world as it is, but also how we tell stories about the world.