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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...
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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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Statement on Hate Speech
As a unit committed to social justice and deeply invested in a rich tradition of social critique, the Department of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois condemns the offensive comments about Latinos, Black Americans, and Jewish Americans, as well as the misogyny, exhibited at a...