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.
News
- 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...
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...
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...
2019-09-06 - Our former student outreach coordinator and recent LLS major alum Zeke Acosta was featured on "...- 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...
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...
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." ...