Latin American and Latino Studies

LALS Department with Dolores Huerta and Cristina Jiménez

LALS with Dolores Huerta and Cristina Jiménez at the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas 30th Anniversary Celebration on October 20th, 2022

Meet the Chair

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

Human Rights Lab

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

Graduate Study

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

November 8, 2022UC researchers use grant funding to investigate environmental crimes in Latin America
November 4, 2022LALS Welcomes New Assistant Professor Carlos Martinez
October 27, 2022UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Cinthya Martinez Joins LALS Department

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IN MEMORIAM

In Memoriam: Susanne Jonas (1941-2022)

UC Santa Cruz’s Latin American and Latino Studies Department celebrates the life and legacy of Susanne Jonas here.

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

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