A new study co-authored by Saraí Blanco Martinez found that participating in community organizing can increase civic agency and promote healing for Latina/o communities.
Faculty
An interdisciplinary group of faculty members, including faculty from the Department of Latina/Latino Studies, have received a grant from the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois...
Mirelsie Velázquez, associate chair and associate professor of Latina/Latino studies, has been selected for the 2026-2027 OpEd Project Public Voices Fellowship.
Latina/Latino studies professor Aja Y. Martinez and gender and women's studies professor and Latina/Latino studies affiliate Damian Vergara Bracamontes are two of eleven faculty members across campus...
A new collection of essays co-edited by Angharad N. Valdivia, emerita professor of Latina/Latino studies and the Institute of Communications Research, with alumnae Jillian M. Báez (PhD, ’09,...
Latina/Latino studies professor Janett Barragán Miranda was awarded funding from the Campus Research Board’s Multiracial Democracy program for her project “From the Streets to the Laboratories: How...
Professor José A. de la Garza Valenzuela looks at the experiences of queer migrants, and at how immigration practices shape particular fictions about them, in his new book “Queer in a Legal Sense:...
Professor Natalie Lira was awarded the Humanities Research Lab Award by the Humanities Research Institute and Office of Undergraduate Research to transform the course LLS 100: Introduction to Latina/...
This spring, the Department of Latina/Latino Studies welcomes assistant professor Elena Guzman. Professor Guzman's research studies ritual art and performance in the Afro-Caribbean. She also creates...
"Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes: (NYU Press) is edited by Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs in the College of LAS and...