Faculty

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...

Latina/Latino Studies Professor Julie Dowling was recently interviewed by International Public Radio (IPR) about the Supreme Court’s decision on the citizenship question on the US Census. Professor Dowling in currently Vice-Chair of...

In 1954, Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón and other members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party led a revolutionary action on the chambers of Congress, firing shots at the ceiling and calling for the independence of the island. Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (NYU Press, 2019...

In April Professor Sandra Ruiz was awarded both the LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by tenure-based faculty and the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Both awards are given to faculty who...

Over the last few years, Jonathan X. Inda has been working on a project that seeks to develop new ways to document, understand, and respond to the critical issue of state violence against two key racialized groups—Indigenous peoples...

The University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2018 and Winter 2018/2019 has recently been announced and we have many LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the list. Making it onto the list is determined by the scores instructors receive on their ICES...

Natalie Lira was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for the project, Demographic Patterns of Eugenic Sterilization in Three U.S. States: Mixed Methods Investigation of Reproductive Control of the "Unfit." ...

Gilberto Rosas was named Associate in the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) for the academic year 2019-2020. As a CAS awardee, he will complete Witness: Testimony and the Ends of Refuge, a book that addresses the competing...