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TA Lydia Socorro Alvarez receives Fulbright U.S. Student award for 2024-2025
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is pleased to announce that Lydia Socorro Alvarez has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Spain for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign...
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80% of recent Latina/Latino studies majors secure first destination
An annual study of recent alumni reports 80% of sociology, anthropology, and interdisciplinary cultural studies graduates secured their first destination within six months of commencement. Latina/Latino studies majors were included in the data along with African American studies, gender and women’s...
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Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada appointed as a 2024-25 National Humanities Center Fellow
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce that Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada has been appointed as a National Humanities Center Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic...
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Professor Nic Flores to participate in Knowledge of AIDS Research Collaboration Network
The Department of Latina/Latino studies is pleased to announce that Professor Nic Flores was recently accepted to participate in three year Knowledge of AIDS (KOA) Research Collaboration Network. The KOA is a Research Community Development project supported by a collaborative grant from the...
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Professor Mirelsie Velázquez and Lydia Socorro Alvarez awarded Legacía Award for La Casa Cultural Latina’s 50th Anniversary
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Mirelsie Velázquez and Lydia Socorro Alvarez, a LLS 100 TA and LLS undergraduate alumna, have each been awarded the Legacía Award for La Casa Cultural Latina’s 50th Anniversary.
The Legacía Award is a...
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The Border Reader (2023)
Gilberto Rosas
The Border Reader, co-edited by Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza, brings together canonical and...
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Celina Villanueva, '08, Illinois State Senator
This past summer I was given the opportunity to interview LLS alum Celina Villanueva (BA, ’08, Latina/Latino studies) who represents Illinois' 12th District in the Illinois State Senate. Sen....
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Latina/Latino Studies Undergraduate Students selected as McNair Scholars
The Department of Latina/Latino studies is proud to announce that four of our undergraduate students have been selected as Trio McNair Scholars: Alexa Rodriguez (LLS and sociology double major, social work minor), Zion Trinidad (LLS and history double major, Spanish minor), Judith Hernandez (social...
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Professor Mirelsie Velázquez featured in the College of LAS Quadrangle
Professor Mirelsie Velázquez was featured in the latest issue of the College of LAS Quadrangle in an article highlighting the contributions of College of LAS faculty members to Chicago. Her book, "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City 1940-1977," was featured for its vital impact on...