2024-07-17
- In the summer of 2024, LLS graduate minor, and history doctoral student Grace Maria Eberhardt traveled to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island and the American Philosophical Society archive in Pennsylvania.
2024-05-16 - Jesse Carmona, a Latina/Latino studies major, gave the following speech at our convocation ceremony on May 11, 2024. It has been reprinted below with her permission.
2024-05-15 - Communications student Craig recently interviewed professor Mirelsie Velázquez for the College of LAS's 940 Feet interview series. Watch the interview with professor Velázquez to learn about the best coffee spots, her next book project, and why the Latina/Latino studies department is the best kept secret on campus.
2024-04-26 - The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is pleased to announce that Lydia Socorro Alvarez has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Spain for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Alvarez is a TA for LLS 100: Intro to Latina/Latino Studies and an LLS undergraduate...
2024-04-24 - An annual study of recent alumni reports 80% of sociology, anthropology, and interdisciplinary cultural studies graduates secured their first destination within six months of commencement. Latina/Latino studies majors were included in the data along with African American studies, gender and women’s studies, individual plans of study, and Latin American studies.
2024-04-17 - The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce that Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada has been appointed as a National Humanities Center Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. Chosen from 492 applicants, Professor Velásquez Estrada is part of the cohort of the 47th...
2024-04-10 - The Department of Latina/Latino studies is pleased to announce that Professor Nic Flores was recently accepted to participate in three year Knowledge of AIDS (KOA) Research Collaboration Network. The KOA is a Research Community Development project supported by a collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation and Science and Technology Studies Program. The KOA seeks to form scholarly...
2024-04-03 - The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Mirelsie Velázquez and Lydia Socorro Alvarez, a LLS 100 TA and LLS undergraduate alumna, have each been awarded the Legacía Award for La Casa Cultural Latina’s 50th Anniversary. The Legacía Award is a special recognition awarded to 50 outstanding individuals who have shaped the legacy of La Casa and our...
2024-03-06 - The Department of Latina/Latino studies is proud to announce that four of our undergraduate students have been selected as Trio McNair Scholars: Alexa Rodriguez (LLS and sociology double major, social work minor), Zion Trinidad (LLS and history double major, Spanish minor), Judith Hernandez (social work major, LLS and Spanish minor), and Nadia Alpuche (social work major, LLS minor).
2024-03-06 - Professor Mirelsie Velázquez was featured in the latest issue of the College of LAS Quadrangle in an article highlighting the contributions of College of LAS faculty members to Chicago. Her book, "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City 1940-1977," was featured for its vital impact on our understanding of the Puerto Rican community in Chicago.
2024-02-09 - The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce professor Natalie Lira has been selected as a Conrad Humanities Scholar. The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years. The awards are funded by a gift from the late...
2023-11-15 - Prof. Mirelsie Velázquez is featured in the College of LAS News! In the article, "she explains what led to her career as a professor, from camp counseling to becoming an 'accidental historian.'" For the full story, visit: https://las.illinois....
2023-10-05 - Latina/Latino Studies Professor and Chair, Gilberto Rosas, was selected to co-lead the third HRI Interseminars Initiative project with colleagues Erik McDuffie (African American Studies and History) and ...
2023-09-27 - Prof. Mirelsie Velázquez has won the American Educational Studies Association's (AESA) Critics' Choice Book Award for her book Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977. Prof. Velázquez and her fellow...
2023-06-06 - On April 30, 2023 we celebrated the graduating Latina/Latino Studies majors at the LLS major symposium where student presented their senior papers or thesis and were recognized for their achievements. Here is a listing of the paper titles: "The Gap Between U.S. Born Latinx LGBTQ+ and their Parents from Latin America," by Victor Dejesus (Class of 2024) "Negating the Aesthetics...