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Student researchers use high-tech sleuthing tools at the Research Center for the Americas

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

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LALS doctoral student recognized for interdisciplinary community research

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LALS offers a flexible, engaging curriculum that works as a major, minor, or double major

NEWS & EVENTS

  • Cat Ramirez portraitJune 3, 2022‘Crossing Latinidades’ program selects UC Santa Cruz faculty and graduate students for national research and mentoring collaboration
  • Candy MartinezMay 31, 2022Candy Martinez
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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LALS and Biology alumna Yulianna Ortega has won the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association Outstanding Staff Award, for her work as the STEM Diversity Programs director.

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

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