Professor Janett Barragán Miranda published a new essay in "California History" on the impact Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) agents have had on Latina/o street food vendors.

Q&A with Jasmin Patrón-Vargas (BA, '11, Latina/Latino studies and gender and women's studies) an assistant professor of teaching, learning, and culture at Texas A&M University.

LLS professor Nic Flores and French and Italian professor Daniel Nabil Maroun have been selected by the Humanities Research Institute's Interseminars initiative to develop the graduate seminar "Remembering and Reimagining HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Times."

The Humanities Research Institute profiled LLS and psychology major Juju Gonzalez-Moreno, who is this year's Odyssey Project Intern.

Angharad Valdivia, an emerita professor of the Department of Latina/Latino Studies and the Institute of Communications Research and a leading scholar of critical-cultural, feminist, and Latina/o/x/e media studies, was awarded the National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar Award.

Professor R. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada co-edited the forthcoming edited collection "Fugitive Anthropology: Embodying Activist Research," has a new article out in Critical Criminology, and has had several translations of her work published in Spanish.

This fall, the Department of Latina/Latino Studies welcomes assistant professor Gabriela G. Corona Valencia. Professor Corona Valencia was previously a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate from 2023-2025. Her research interests include histories of eugenics, public health, medicine,...

Professor Natalie Lira was recently elected to leadership positions within two professional associations, joining other Department of Latina/Latino Studies faculty who serve on professional associations in their fields.