Latin American and Latino Studies

Meet the Chair

LALS Chair Catherine Ramírez On The Other Southland: Missions, Monuments, and Memory in Tovaangar

LALS Department with Dolores Huerta and Cristina Jiménez

Community

LALS with Dolores Huerta and Cristina Jiménez at the Huerta Center Renaming and 30th Anniversary Celebration

Graduate Study

Award winners Rafael Delgadillo, Karina Ruiz, Amando Argueta-Vogel, and Brittney Jimenez-Bayardo

Joel Frankel Fund

Scholarships for travel and research in Latin American and Latino Studies: Apply now!

LALS in the NEWS

October 8, 2024Recognizing outstanding faculty and staff in the Division of Social Sciences
October 7, 2024LALS Alum Nik Altenberg in Santa Cruz Local: "Rats, high rents plague UC-owned Hilltop Apartments in Santa Cruz"
September 20, 2024LALS presence at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference in Bogota, Colombia, June 12-15, 2024

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LALS POSTDOC FELLOWSHIPS

The Department of Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) is recruiting two UC Santa Cruz Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellows as part of the UC Presidential Postdoctoral Program.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Precarity and Belonging Labor: Migration, and Noncitizenship / Edited by Catherine S. Ramírez, Sylvanna M. Falcón, Juan Poblete, Steven C. McKay, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

The Left Hand of Capital: Neoliberalism and the left in Chile by Fernando I. Leiva

Assimilation: An Alternative History - Catherine Ramirez

Argentina in the Global Middle East - Lily Pearl Balloffet

Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met - Jeffrey Erbig

UPCOMING EVENTS

Sept 24th @ 11:00am

LALS Undergraduate Orientation Meet other undergraduate LALS majors, minors, and interested students in a presentation by LALS faculty, our Chair, Catherine Ramírez, and LALS Undergraduate Advisor Ursula Oberg. Email lalsadvising@ucsc.edu with any questions. Further details TBA.

Sept 24th @ 12:00pm

LALS Orientation Lunch for new LALS students and prospective students, faculty, and staff at Merrill College. Further details TBA.

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