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  • Jose de la Garza Valenzuela in nature
    Professor José A. de la Garza Valenzuela's book shows how ‘lawful fictions’ are used to manage immigration, citizenship
    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:...
  • Natalie Lira
    Professor Natalie Lira receives Humanities Research Lab Award from HRI and OUR
    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/...
  • Elena Guzman
    Professor Elena Guzman joins the Department of Latina/Latino Studies
    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...
  • Book cover of rebooting inequality
    New book edited by LLS faculty examines how the contemporary reboot craze perpetuates inequality
    "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...
  • Nic Flores
    Professor Nic Flores selected to co-develop Humanities Research Institute Interseminars course
    LLS professor Nic Flores and French and Italian professor Daniel Nabil Maroun have been selected by the Humanities Research Institute's Interseminars initiative to develop the graduate seminar "...
  • Gabby Corona Valencia
    Professor Gabriela G. Corona Valencia joins the Department of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois
    This fall, the Department of Latina/Latino Studies welcomes assistant professor Gabriela G. Corona Valencia. Professor Corona Valencia was previously a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate...
  • Natalie Lira
    Latina/Latino studies professor elected to leadership positions with Latina/x/o Studies Association and Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
    Professor Natalie Lira was recently elected to leadership positions within two professional associations, joining other Department of Latina/Latino Studies faculty who serve on professional...
  • Professor Velazquez
    Professor Mirelsie Velázquez named Conrad Humanities Scholar
    Professor Mirelsie Velázquez has been named a Conrad Humanities Scholar for her contributions in education and research in the...
  • Professor Velazquez
    Professor Mirelsie Velázquez receives Campus Research Board Grant
     The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is pleased to announce that professor Mirelsie Velázquez received a Campus Research...
  • book cover of critical race theory and headshot of Aja Martinez
    New book by professor Aja Y. Martinez recounts history of critical race theory
    A new book by rhetoric and history scholars examines the origins of critical race theory in legal studies. The movement is an area of legal scholarship that seeks to understand the relationship...

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