Awards | Department of Latina/Latino Studies

LLS affiliate professor Mónica García Blizzard’s book “The White Indians of Mexican Cinema” receives Honorable Mention from International Latino Book Awards

2024-09-18

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...

Professor Gilberto Rosas’ book "Unsettling" receives honorable mention for 2024 American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize

2024-09-18

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...

LLS faculty, affiliates, and graduate minors ranked as excellent for spring 2024 semester

2024-08-28

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...

TA Lydia Socorro Alvarez receives Fulbright U.S. Student award for 2024-2025

2024-04-26

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...

Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada appointed as a 2024-25 National Humanities Center Fellow

2024-04-17

The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce that Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada has been appointed as a National Humanities Center Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic...

Professor Mirelsie Velázquez and Lydia Socorro Alvarez awarded Legacía Award for La Casa Cultural Latina’s 50th Anniversary

2024-04-03

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The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Mirelsie Velázquez and Lydia Socorro Alvarez, a LLS 100 TA and LLS undergraduate alumna, have each been awarded the Legacía Award for La Casa Cultural Latina’s 50th Anniversary. The Legacía Award is a...

Latina/Latino Studies Undergraduate Students selected as McNair Scholars

2024-03-06

The Department of Latina/Latino studies is proud to announce that four of our undergraduate students have been selected as Trio McNair Scholars: Alexa Rodriguez (LLS and sociology double major, social work minor), Zion Trinidad (LLS and history double major, Spanish minor), Judith Hernandez (social...

Professor Natalie Lira selected as Conrad Humanities Scholar

2024-02-09

The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce professor Natalie Lira has been selected as a Conrad Humanities Scholar. The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and...

Professor Mirelsie Velázquez Receives 2023 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Book Award

2023-09-27

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Prof. Mirelsie Velázquez has won the American Educational Studies Association's (AESA) Critics' Choice Book Award for her book...

Professor Mirelsie Velázquez receives Campus Research Board Grant

2023-05-15

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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