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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...- 2019-03-18 - The University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2018 and Winter 2018/2019 has recently been announced and we have many LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the list. Making it onto the list is determined by the scores instructors receive on their ICES...
2018-12-03 - Natalie Lira was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for the project, Demographic Patterns of Eugenic Sterilization in Three U.S. States: Mixed Methods Investigation of Reproductive Control of the "Unfit." ...
2018-11-28 - Gilberto Rosas was named Associate in the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) for the academic year 2019-2020. As a CAS awardee, he will complete Witness: Testimony and the Ends of Refuge, a book that addresses the competing...
2018-10-16 - In an article for PBS American Experience Professor Natalie Lira discusses her research on the impact eugenics had on the sterilization of Mexican American women in California during the early decades of the 20th century. Lira begins...
2018-09-14 - Queer and Latinx artist Erica Gressman premiered Limbs at the Krannert Art Museum on September 13th. Limbs was curated by Latina/Latino Studies Professor Sandra...
2018-09-13 - La Estación Gallery opened in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies on September 12th with the exhibition “Limbs, Ligaments, Parts: My Body is There” by performance artist Erica Gressman. The exhibition, curated by...
2018-08-27 - The Department of LLS was busy this summer creating a performance/art gallery on the first floor of our building. Please join us in revealing La Estación Gallery to the public on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, between 5:30-7:30pm. Our first exhibition will showcase the performance...
2018-08-09 - Latinos are still a rarity on American television, especially in proportion to their population. That makes the study of Latino characters and how they’re represented even more important, says Isabel Molina-Guzman, a professor of...
2018-07-13 - A professor of Latina/Latino studies, Dowling will be one of two presenters at the afternoon briefing. The event, sponsored by the Population Association of America, will be held in the Rayburn House Office Building.