2020-02-13
- Sandra Ruiz has been named a 2020-2021 Helen Corley Petit Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. The award was endowed by Helen Corley Petit to recognize the scholarship and teaching of early career scholars. Each year LAS selects up to 5 award recipients based on the extraordinary record of research, teaching and...
2020-02-05 - Latina/Latino Studies major alum Dr. Monica Gonzalez Ybarra returned to campus this year as an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She graduated with a PhD in 2018 from the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Gonzalez Ybarra is from Bolingbrook, Illinois and was part of the first...- 2020-01-17 - The Department invites applications for teaching assistantships for the 2020-2021 academic year. For more information, visit https://lls.illinois.edu/award/teaching-assistantships.
- 2019-10-15 - Moisés Contreras (class of 2018)—Latina/Latino Studies minor, and Psychology and Italian major—is the recipient of a Fulbright award. Moisés will spend the 2019-2020 school year as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in a Sicilian High School in Italy. He will work with students in their 3rd, 4th, and 5th years on topics to promote conversation, foster intercultural learning and...
2019-10-01 - Daissy Dominguez (Class of 2010, Political Science major) of the Dominguez Legal Justice Center has been an amazing mentor to several of our Latina/Latino Studies majors over the years, providing students with hands-on experience working on immigration legal cases. Most recently, Latina/o Studies majors Mariana Barrajas and Rocio Salazar have interned with Daissy. The interns have worked on cases...
2019-09-09 - Due to little change in the lack of diversity in the Geosciences, a summer camp for girls was created, designed, organized, and implemented by PhD student Aida Guhlincozzi, a Geography major and Latina/Latino Studies minor, and Geology PhD candidate Julia Cisneros. This camp, hosted by the School of Earth, Society, and Environment (SESE), would engage and expose young women of color to the...
2019-09-06 - Our former student outreach coordinator and recent LLS major alum Zeke Acosta was featured on "Good Morning America" about being transgender and the support from his father and family. From a...- 2019-09-06 - Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring and Summer 2019!Spring 2019L. Cacho (LLS 240, 343)N. Cardenas Gonzalez (TA-LLS 100)V. Cervantes (SPAN 254, 326)D. Cisneros (COMM 396)D. Coyoca (LLS 265, 396)J. Dowling (LLS 100)J. Mora (TA-LLS 100)F. Ngo (AAS 315)C. Peralta (TA-...
2019-07-09 - How are artists, activists, and communities resetting the colonial clock? What does it mean to reinterpret political actions as insurgent performances? How might we transform the collaborative possibilities of scholarly work?In episode 92 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews curator, performer, and scholar...
2019-07-08 - Latina/Latino Studies Professor Julie Dowling was recently interviewed by International Public Radio (IPR) about the Supreme Court’s decision on the citizenship question on the US Census. Professor Dowling in currently Vice-Chair of the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations....
2019-06-24 - In 1954, Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón and other members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party led a revolutionary action on the chambers of Congress, firing shots at the ceiling and calling for the independence of the island. Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (NYU Press, 2019) highlights Lebrón’s vanguard act to underscore the relationship between Puerto Rican...
2019-05-15 - In April Professor Sandra Ruiz was awarded both the LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by tenure-based faculty and the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Both awards are given to faculty who demonstrate sustained excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching. Ruiz was the only junior...
2019-05-14 - On April 18, 2019 several Latina/Latino Studies students presented their research at the Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium during the twelfth annual Undergraduate Research Week (April 14-20). The week is a celebration of student innovation and excellence in research across campus.Latina/Latino Studies major Bianca...
2019-03-27 - Over the last few years, Jonathan X. Inda has been working on a project that seeks to develop new ways to document, understand, and respond to the critical issue of state violence against two key racialized groups—Indigenous peoples and migrants/refugees—in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States. The project is...
2019-03-19 - On March 13th our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yuridia Ramirez was the winner of one of two Illinois Distinguished and Chancellor’s Emerging Scholars awards for her presentation at the 2019 Illinois Distinguished and Chancellor’s Emerging Scholars Symposium. The Symposium was an opportunity for the postdoctoral fellows in The Chancellor...