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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

  • Dora BeyerFebruary 21, 2025Rooted in community
  • Portrait of Catherine RamirezFebruary 20, 2025Professor Catherine S. Ramírez selected as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
  • Portrait of AlinaJanuary 17, 2025Embedding equity in the financial sector

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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 6th @ 11am - 1pm

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

June 13th-16th @ various times

UCSC Commencement - find more information and register here

Find more events and opportunities

LALS Undergraduate Program Newsletter (published several times each quarter)

FOR STUDENTS

Academic and Advising Help for Undergrads

Opportunities for Undergrads in LALS and beyond

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