Latin American and Latino Studies

LALS Department Chair Catherine Ramírez

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

LALS Department with Dolores Huerta and Cristina Jiménez

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

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

September 21, 2023LALS Professor interviewed about drug use and harm reduction for Univision 14
August 11, 2023LALS Chair Catherine Ramírez interviewed in Smithsonian series on Latino Futurism
July 28, 2023Latin American & Latino Studies students win big in awards, fellowships

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

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LALS double majors Maria Luisa Carmona, Jaden Huerta, Sofia Carolina Wageman, and Elsie Vizcarra win Social Science Division Awards.

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

The Kids Are in Charge - Jessica Taft

Mapping Diaspora - Patricia Pinho

Power Interrupted - Sylvanna Falcón

Salvadoran Imaginaries - Cecilia Rivas

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