During the summer of 2024, LLS major Alexa Rodriguez conducted research as a TRIO McNair Scholar. She wrote to us about her experience.
During the spring of 2024, LLS major Adriana Serrano Matsumoto was an intern for Senator Dick Durbin. She wrote to us about her experience.
Janett Barragán Miranda is currently working on her book manuscript tentatively titled, "Hungering for Equality: Mexican and Mexican Americans from Post WWII To Civil Rights," a monograph about the community of Mexican origin and their struggle for food justice in the 1960s.
José A. de la Garza Valenzuela focuses on fiction by gay Chicano writers and his current research investigates the legal underpinnings of queer migrant narrative to shed light on experiences of migration and residence in the U.S. inaccessible through the state’s legal archive.
Nic Flores specializes in public and sexual health, HIV/AIDS prevention, ethnography, comparative ethnic and racial studies, and gender and sexuality studies with additional interests in queer of color critique, disability studies, and feminist science and technology studies.
During the summer of 2024, Trinity Mitchell, a Latina/Latino studies and history major worked for the Illinois Department of Human Services Asylum and Resettlement Team. She wrote to us about her experience.
During the summer of 2024, Graciela Best, a sophomore majoring in Latina/Latino studies and history, interned with the Chinese Historical Christian Database. She wrote to us about her experience.
Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada seeks to produce knowledge that supports the development of a holistic and substantial peace. Her research interests include violence and grassroots peacemaking, racialization and gender in El Salvador, transnational feminisms and activist research, and the politics of intersectional inequalities and justice.
Natalie Lira is an interdisciplinary scholar who examines the politics of reproduction and histories of medicine in the United States. Her research interests include the politics of reproduction, histories of medicine, and the ways that struggles for racial and reproductive justice intersect.
Mirelsie Velázquez is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centers history of education, women's history, Puerto Rican studies, gender and sexuality, and teacher education.