Latin American and Latino Studies

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Human Rights Lab

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

LALS Department Chair Catherine Ramírez

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

LALS doctoral student recognized for interdisciplinary community research

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NEWS & EVENTS

June 3, 2022‘Crossing Latinidades’ program selects UC Santa Cruz faculty and graduate students for national research and mentoring collaboration
May 31, 2022Candy Martinez
October 13, 2021Human Rights Investigations Lab alumni putting their skills to work

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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 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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