Faculty

LLS congratulates faculty member Natalie Lira upon receiving a 2022 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award. The  Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure identifies particularly excellent cases during the promotion review process,...

Professor Natalie Lira's recently published book Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s combines insights and analytical frameworks from Latinx Studies, Disability...

Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring and Summer 2021!SPRING 2021Atiles, Osoria, J.  SOC 275, 479Burgos, A.  HIST/LLS 280Ettinger, S.  TA-LLS 279Garcia...

Congratulations to Prof. Sandra Ruiz for being named a 2021 Conrad Humanities Scholar! The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years....

Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and TAs who made it onto the University's list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2020! Burgos, A. HIST/LLS 281, HIST 390Cervantes, V. SPAN 324Cisneros, J. COMM 250, 538De La Garza, J. LLS 242, 442Ettinger, S. TA-HIST 272Flores, N. LLS 230...

Prof. Sandra Ruiz has been awarded a Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellowship for the 2021–22 academic year for her project titled, “Minoritarian Pedagogy: Psychoanalytic Affections in the Space of Aesthetics.” The...

Professor Natalie Lira has been awarded the 2020-21 Latina/Latino Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award honors the Department’s best teachers. Professor Lira is an engaging and dedicated teacher who has had a tremendous...

Professor Gilberto Rosas was interviewed for a story on NPR today, February 10, 2011. He was interviewed in connection to his work on the Labor, Health, Equity, Action Project (LHEAP), a collective community-engaged research project that makes it possible for marginalized workers in Rantoul, IL to...

Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring and Summer 2019!Spring 2019L. Cacho (LLS 240, 343)N. Cardenas Gonzalez (TA-LLS 100)V. Cervantes (SPAN 254, 326)D. Cisneros (COMM...

How are artists, activists, and communities resetting the colonial clock? What does it mean to reinterpret political actions as insurgent performances? How might we transform the collaborative possibilities of scholarly work?In episode 92 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy...