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Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada appointed as a 2024-25 National Humanities Center Fellow
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...
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Professor Mirelsie Velázquez and Lydia Socorro Alvarez awarded Legacía Award for La Casa Cultural Latina’s 50th Anniversary
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...
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Latina/Latino Studies Undergraduate Students selected as McNair Scholars
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...
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Professor Natalie Lira selected as Conrad Humanities Scholar
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...
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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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2023 LLS Scholarships and Undergraduate Research Award Winners
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is happy to announce the recipients of the scholarships and award for 2023.Adriana Serrano Matsumoto is the winner of the 2023 LLS Undergraduate Research Award...
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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...