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Damian Vergara Bracamontes
Professor Vergara Bracamontes is a scholar of Latinx studies, critical prison studies, and queer of color critique who focuses on Latinx migration in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.
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Emma Velez
Professor Velez is interested in the role that our social imaginaries play both in shaping and reimagining our ethical commitments, geopolitical responses to racialized and gendered colonial violence...
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Oscar Vazquez
Professor Vázquez' research and teaching interests range from contemporary graffiti and murals and the construction of spaces by US Latino/as, to the representation of national narratives in Mexico,...
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Ramón E Soto-Crespo
Professor Soto-Crespo's research interests include American, later, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Latina/o Studies, Post-Colonial, Fiction, Theory & Criticism, Film/Visual Culture.
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Yuridia Ramírez
Professor Ramírez is an historian of the modern United States with specialties in migration, Latinxs, labor, and indigeneity.
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Lissette Piedra
Professor Piedra’s research interests explores the social consequences of an increasingly diverse society by examining how the language and culture of immigrants affect their access to and use of...
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LLS and anthropology alumna Teresa Ramos named first secretary of Illinois Department of Early Childhood
LLS and anthropology alumna Teresa Ramos (BA, ’04; MA, ’08; PhD, ’12; anthropology with a minor in Latina/Latino studies) has been named the first secretary of the Illinois Department of Early Childhood (IDEC). Ramos is currently the first assistant deputy governor for education in Governor JB...
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The early days of public service: LLS student serves as intern to U.S. Senator Dick Durbin
Taking the risk of applying for an internship can be frightening for any student. When Adriana Matsumoto, now a senior studying political science and Latina/Latino studies, applied for her internship with U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, she was not...
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Mariselle Meléndez
Professor Meléndez' research focuses on issues of race and gender in colonial Spanish America with special interest in the eighteenth century, the cultural phenomenon of the Enlightenment,...
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Read the fall 2024 LLS newsletter !
The fall 2024 LLS newsletter is here! Learn about the revival of the graduate student conference, research highlights, student internship updates, and more!