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LLS affiliate professor Adrian Burgos Jr. named Norman P. Jones Professorial Scholar
LLS affiliate professor Adrian Burgos, Jr. has been named a Norman P. Jones Professorial Scholar for his contributions in education and research in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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LLS affiliate professor Yuridia Ramírez receives 2025 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award
LLS affiliate professor Yuridia Ramírez received a 2025 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award from the Institute of Citizens & Scholars...
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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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New book examines the impact of colonialism on Puerto Rico: Interview with LLS affiliate professor Jose Atiles
Powerful hurricanes, the COVID-19 pandemic, spiraling public debt and political corruption triggered humanitarian, economic and environmental crises in Puerto Rico. However, a new book suggests that the Puerto Rican and U.S. governments made these multilayered crises catastrophic through the...
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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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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....
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LLS Faculty and Affiliates Among 2022-23 HRI Campus Fellows and Interseminars Faculty Conveners
We have many LLS faculty and affiliates represented in the 2022-23 Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellows Program and Interseminars Initiative. The campus fellows include Janett Barragán Miranda (“...
LLS Teachers on List of Excellent Teachers for Spring & Summer 2021
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 2021!SPRING 2021Atiles, Osoria, J. SOC 275, 479Burgos, A. HIST/LLS 280Ettinger, S. TA-LLS 279Garcia...
LLS Teachers on List of Excellent Teachers for Fall 2020
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 324Cisneros, J. COMM 250, 538De La Garza, J. LLS 242, 442Ettinger, S. TA-HIST 272Flores, N. LLS 230...