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.
2022-04-25 - The Department of Latina/Latino Studies celebrates the life and legacy of Rolando Hinojosa-Smith and mourns his passing on April 19, 2022. Prof. Hinojosa-Smith was a University of Illinois alumnus who received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois in 1969. In 2006 Latina/Latino Studies honored Dr. Hinojosa-Smith with an annual...
2022-03-31 - Professor Natalie Lira's recently published book Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s combines insights and analytical frameworks from Latinx Studies, Disability Studies, and feminist scholarship on reproduction to examine Mexican-origin people’s experiences of...- 2022-03-29 - Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and TAs who made it onto the University's list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2021! Burgos, A. HIST 390 Callesano, S. SPAN 308, 433 Cano, A. TA-MACS 100 De La Garza, J. LLS 242, 357 Ettinger, S. TA-HIST 498 Flores, N. LLS 230, 387 Garcia, B. TA-LLS 100 Garcia, L. TA-LLS 100 Gonzalez...
- 2022-02-28 - We are accepting applications for our teaching assistantships for the 2022-2023 academic year. The application deadline is March 21, 2022. Visit here for more details.
- 2021-11-30 - 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, 2022. For complete details visit...