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Latina/Latino studies major Cecelia Escobar selected for Fulbright's Summer Institute
Second-year student Cecelia Escobar, who is double majoring in political science and Latina/Latino studies, was selected for the three-week Understanding Northern Ireland” summer program at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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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 Board grant from Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. The grant will fund her...
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Professor Velázquez awarded Campus Fellowship from Humanities Research Institute
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is pleased to announce that professor Mirelsie Velázquez has been awarded a 2025-26 Campus Fellowship from the Humanities Research Institute for her project “Genealogies of Empowerment and the Makings of Home: Latina/o Activism at the...
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LLS alumna Celina Villanueva receives LAS Outstanding Young Alumni Award
We’re pleased to announce that LLS alumna Celina Villanueva (BA, ’08, Latina/Latino studies) has been awarded the LAS Outstanding Young Alumni Award. The award recognizes alumni who have demonstrated the values...
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LLS affiliate professor Rochelle Gutiérrez named to National Academy of Education
Education professor Rochelle Gutiérrez has been named to the National Academy of Education. A professor of curriculum and instruction and of mathematics education, Gutiérrez challenges deficit views of racial minority students and believes that teachers must have more than pedagogical or content...
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LLS affiliate professor Mónica García Blizzard’s book “The White Indians of Mexican Cinema” receives Honorable Mention from International Latino Book Awards
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce that affiliate professor Mónica García Blizzard’s book, The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age, has...
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Professor Gilberto Rosas’ book "Unsettling" receives honorable mention for 2024 American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce that professor Gilberto Rosas’s book Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border has received an honorable mention...
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LLS faculty, affiliates, and graduate minors ranked as excellent for spring 2024 semester
The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning has released the list of teachers who were ranked as excellent by their students during the spring 2024 semester and many Latina/Latino studies faculty, affiliates, and graduate minors were included on the list. These lists are compiled each...
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TA Lydia Socorro Alvarez receives Fulbright U.S. Student award for 2024-2025
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is pleased to announce that Lydia Socorro Alvarez has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Spain for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign...