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LLS academic program coordinator Sean Ettinger honored with Cathy Acevedo Faculty & Staff Award

2026-05-20

Dr. Sean Ettinger, the Department of Latina/Latino Studies academic program coordinator, was honored with the 2026 Cathy Acevedo Faculty & Staff Award by La Casa Cultural Latina. The award recognizes faculty or staff who have shown extraordinary commitment to Latina/o students and the campus...

Approved elective courses for graduate minor

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The following courses are approved as electives for the Latina/Latino studies graduate minor.

Juju Gonzalez-Moreno (BA, '26, psychology and Latina/Latino studies)

Juju is a psychology and Latina/Latino studies major. After graduation they will take a gap year and gain experience teaching students in elementary school before pursuing a PhD in psychology or...

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Bela Barragan (BA, '26, Latina/Latino studies)

Bela Barragan is a Latina/Latino studies major with minors in Spanish and business. After graduation she plans to get an internship in a community/nonprofit organization that serves the Latino...

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Richard Flores Jardines (BA, '26, Latina/Latino studies and political science)

Richard Flores Jardines outside the LLS building.

Richard is a Latina/Latino studies and political science major with a minor in minoritarian aesthetics. After he graduates, he will do a summer research internship with McNair, and apply for Ph.D....

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Professor José A. de la Garza Valenzuela's book shows how ‘lawful fictions’ are used to manage immigration, citizenship

2026-04-22

Professor José A. de la Garza Valenzuela looks at the experiences of queer migrants, and at how immigration practices shape particular fictions about them, in his new book “Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions.”

Professor Natalie Lira receives Humanities Research Lab Award from HRI and OUR

2026-04-15

Professor Natalie Lira was awarded the Humanities Research Lab Award by the Humanities Research Institute and Office of Undergraduate Research to transform the course LLS 100: Introduction to Latina/o Studies into a local community-based research experience.

Congratulations to our 2026 graduates and award winners

2026-04-27

Congrats to the class of 2026!

Elena Guzman

Elena Guzman is an Afro-Boricua documentary filmmaker, educator, and anthropologist. She is currently writing her book manuscript tentatively titled, "Chimera Geographies: Spiritual Borderland...

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Professor Elena Guzman joins the Department of Latina/Latino Studies

2026-03-25

This spring, the Department of Latina/Latino Studies welcomes assistant professor Elena Guzman. Professor Guzman's research studies ritual art and performance in the Afro-Caribbean. She also creates films that focus on the metaphysical and ethereal experiences of African diaspora spirituality. Read...

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