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LALS Department Chair Catherine Ramírez
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
Joel Frankel Fund

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

LALS in the NEWS

  • Stephanie Shugert Peña, Brittney Jimenez, Teresa Mora, Dolores HuertaMay 2, 2025UCSC Graduate Students Help Preserve Dolores Huerta’s Legacy Through Archival Fellowship
  • Book cover show book name on pink backgroundApril 8, 2025New book explains the public health costs of prisons and policing
  • Dora BeyerFebruary 21, 2025Rooted in community

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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Precarity and Belonging Labor: Migration, and Noncitizenship / Edited by Catherine S. Ramírez, Sylvanna M. Falcón, Juan Poblete, Steven C. McKay, Felicity Amaya SchaefferThe Left Hand of Capital: Neoliberalism and the left in Chile by Fernando I. LeivaAssimilation: An Alternative History - Catherine RamirezArgentina in the Global Middle East - Lily Pearl BalloffetWhere Caciques and Mapmakers Met - Jeffrey ErbigThe Kids Are in Charge - Jessica TaftMapping Diaspora - Patricia PinhoPower Interrupted - Sylvanna FalcónSalvadoran Imaginaries - Cecilia Rivas

UPCOMING EVENTS

June 3rd @ 5:30pm

LALS End of Year Celebration @ Abbott Square. LALS students: look for an email with more information! 

June 4th @ 11am

LALS Student Research Symposium. Cervantes & Velasquez Conference Room at the Bay Tree Conference Center (third floor). Light lunch to follow.

Find more events and opportunities

LALS Undergraduate Program Newsletter (published several times each quarter)

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