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Professor Gilberto Rosas co-leads HRI Interseminars Initiative Project
Latina/Latino Studies Professor and Chair, Gilberto Rosas, was selected to co-lead the third HRI Interseminars Initiative project with colleagues Erik McDuffie (...
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Professor Mirelsie Velázquez Receives 2023 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Book Award
Prof. Mirelsie Velázquez has won the American Educational Studies Association's (AESA) Critics' Choice Book Award for her book...
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Professor Mirelsie Velázquez receives Campus Research Board Grant
Prof. Mirelsie Velázquez has received a grant from the Campus Research Board to work on her second book project, “Genealogies of Empowerment and the Makings of Home: Puerto Rican/Latina Activism at the University of Illinois at...
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Professor Mirelsie Velázquez Receives Humanities Research Institute Summer Fellowship
Congratulations to Prof. Mirelsie Velázquez for being chosen as a Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Summer Fellow! The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Summer Faculty...
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José de la Garza Valenzuela and Yuridia Ramírez Receive ACLS Fellowships
Latina/Latino Studies faculty affiliate Yuridia Ramírez and Latina/Latino Studies professor José de la Garza Valenzuela have been awarded 2023 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships....
LLS Teachers on List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for Fall 2022
Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for Fall 2022! Burgos, A. HIST 390Callesano, S. SPAN 308Cervantes-Gomez, X. SPAN 246De La Garza, J. LLS...
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Prof. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada co-leads HRI Interseminars Initiative Project
Latina/Latino Studies Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada was selected to co-lead the second Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Interseminars Initiative project with colleagues Professor...
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Professor Nic Flores Named LEAP Scholar
Congratulations to Professor Nic Flores for being named a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) scholar by the College of LAS.Flores specializes in public and sexual health, HIV...
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LLS Faculty and Affiliates Among 2022-23 HRI Campus Fellows and Interseminars Faculty Conveners
We have many LLS faculty and affiliates represented in the 2022-23 Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellows Program and Interseminars Initiative. The campus fellows include Janett Barragán Miranda (“...
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Natalie Lira named 2022-2023 Helen Corley Petit Scholar
Dr. Natalie Lira has been named as one of the College of LAS's 2022-2023 Helen Corley Petit Scholars (for early career scholars) for her contributions in education and research. Congratulations, Natalie!