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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Latina/Latino Studies

Sabbatical spotlight: Associate dean Isabel Molina-Guzmán’s work on Afro-Latinidad in digital spaces and Hollywood reboots

For most academics, sabbatical is a crucial time to focus on your research and a break from teaching duties. For administrators it’s especially essential, because their duties often leave little time to devote to their scholarship. For Isabel Molina-­Guzmán, associate dean for student academic...

New book examines the impact of colonialism on Puerto Rico: Interview with LLS affiliate professor Jose Atiles

Powerful hurricanes, the COVID-19 pandemic, spiraling public debt and political corruption triggered humanitarian, economic and environmental crises in Puerto Rico. However, a new book suggests that the Puerto Rican and U.S. governments made these multilayered crises catastrophic through the...

Rochelle Gutiérrez

Professor Gutierrez' scholarship focuses on issues of identity and power in mathematics education, paying particular attention to how race, class, and language affect teaching and learning.
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Mónica González Ybarra

Professor González Ybarra looks at the powerful practices of teaching and learning that exist in community spaces and how Chicanx/Latinx bilingual youth, in particular, draw on their home, family,...
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Ángel García

Professor García is a poet and the author of Indifferent Cities (Tupelo Press), the inaugural winner of the Helena Whitehill Book Award, and Teeth Never Sleep (University of...
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Mónica García Blizzard

Professor García Blizzard’s research interests lie at the intersection of Latin American Cultural Studies and Film Studies. Her primary scholarly focus is race and national identity in Mexican cinema.
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Salvatore Callesano

Professor Callesano's research focuses on linguistic production and perception in U.S. Latinx communities.
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Adrian Burgos, Jr.

Professor Burgos is a historian that specializes in US Latino history, Sport history, Urban history, and African American history.
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Jose M Atiles Osoria

Professor Atiles Osoria's research is focused on the sociolegal and criminological study of Puerto Rico and its legal and political relationship with the US.
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J. David Cisneros

Professor Cisneros' interests are in Rhetorical Studies and Intercultural Communication. His research focuses on public rhetoric about identity and culture, especially the ways that social identities...
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