2023-04-07
- 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...
- 2023-02-14 - Check out our Spring 2023 newsletter and meet our new faculty and staff, and read about our faculty accomplishments.
- 2023-01-27 - We are accepting applications for our teaching assistantships for the 2023-2024 academic year. The application deadline is March 20, 2023. Visit here for more details.
- 2022-12-14 - Latina/Latino Studies Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada was selected to co-lead the second Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Interseminars Initiative project with colleagues Professor Maryam Kashani (Asian American Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies) and...
- 2022-11-16 - 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, 2023. For complete details visit...
- 2022-09-15 - Congratulations to Professor Nic Flores for being named a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) scholar by the College of LAS. Flores specializes in public and sexual health, HIV/AIDS prevention, ethnography, comparative ethnic and racial studies, and gender and sexuality...
- 2022-09-12 - Check out our Fall 2022 newsletter and meet our new interim chair and faculty, read about our student and faculty accomplishments..
- 2022-08-22 - We have many LLS faculty and affiliates represented in the 2022-23 Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellows Program and Interseminars Initiative. The campus fellows include Janett Barragán Miranda (“Hungering for Equality: The Community of Mexican-Origin from Post-WWII to Civil Rights”, ...
- 2022-06-09 - Dr. Natalie Lira has been named as one of the College of LAS's 2022-2023 Helen Corley Petit Scholars (for early career scholars) for her contributions in education and research. Congratulations, Natalie!
- 2022-06-08 - The Department of Latina/Latino Studies (LLS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time 1.0 FTE, Lecturer position in Latina/Latino Studies for the 2022-2023 academic year. This is a one-year appointment with a start date of August 16, 2022. The expected start date is August 16, 2022. Full consideration will be given to applications received by...
- 2022-05-25 - After more than a year working on cataloging the department's library collection of more than 1,500 volumes, the LLS Library Collection is available for students and others to peruse and check out. The collection is located in room 107 in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies and is open Monday-Friday 9-5pm. Thank you to...
- 2022-05-20 - LLS congratulates faculty member Natalie Lira upon receiving a 2022 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award. The Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure identifies particularly excellent cases during the promotion review process, noting those scholars whose contributions were truly exceptional. Our own Natalie Lira is one of...
- 2022-05-20 - In Laboratory of Deficiency (2021), Dr. Natalie Lira combines insights and analytical frameworks from Latinx Studies, Disability Studies, and feminist...
- 2022-05-16 - The Latina/Latino Studies Department mourns the tragic news that our colleague and LLS Affiliate Dara Goldman unexpectedly passed away May 13. Dara was a professor in the Spanish Department, and she was the Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Culture and former director of Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies...
- 2022-05-13 - LLS bids farewell to Provost Post-Doctoral Fellows Jack Cáraves and Mauricio Ramirez who were with us 2021-2022. Professor Cáraves is the recipient of a UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Riverside and Professor Ramirez is the recipient of a UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Davis.