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...
- It gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of this year’s LLS scholarships and paper award.Isabella “Issy” Marquez, Latina/Latino Studies, English, and Political...
- 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...
Prof. Sandra Ruiz has been awarded a Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellowship for the 2021–22 academic year for her...
Professor Natalie Lira has been awarded the 2020-21 Latina/Latino Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award honors the...
Senior Issy Marquez (triple major in Latina/Latino Studies, English, and Political Science) recently received the Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award. "The annual award goes to one senior...
In April Professor Sandra Ruiz was awarded both the LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by tenure-based faculty...
On March 13th our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yuridia Ramirez was the winner of one of two Illinois Distinguished and Chancellor’s...
Natalie Lira was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for the project, Demographic Patterns of Eugenic Sterilization...
Gilberto Rosas was named Associate in the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) for the academic year 2019-2020. As a CAS awardee, he will...