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.edu/...
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 of Latinidad,"...
2023-05-15 - 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!
2023-05-15 - 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 a...
2023-04-19 - 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 Fellowships to nine faculty members for 2023. These fellowships are designed to help faculty maximize...
2023-04-11 - 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....- 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 390Callesano, S. SPAN 308Cervantes-Gomez, X. SPAN 246De La Garza, J. LLS 242Ettinger, S. TA-LLS 100Fernandez Doig, F. TA-LLS 100Garcia, A. CW 106Gonzalez, M....
2023-02-14 - Check out our Spring 2023 newsletter and meet our new faculty and staff, and read about our faculty accomplishments.