Category: Department Updates
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Graduate student interviewed for her research on evangelical women in Costa Rica
The University of Costa Rica recently interviewed LALS Ph.D. student Adriana Maroto Vargas about her groundbreaking research. Listen to the full interview in Spanish in under 30 minutes! Her work offers a feminist analysis of the neoconservative project in Latin America, centering the voices and experiences of women in neo-Pentecostal churches in Costa Rica. Adriana explores why women…
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Ramírez weighs in on Real ID rules, talks assimilation on Scientific Sense podcast
Professor & Chair Catherine Ramírez provides commentary in Zócalo Public Square about how Real ID excludes real Americans, which has been republished in CalMatters, The San Francisco Chronicle, and several other periodicals across the state. Her conversation at Bookshop Santa Cruz with acclaimed anthropologist Jason De León about his award-winning book, Soldiers and Kings: Survival…
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LALS Alum Nik Altenberg on lawsuit that forces ICE to release policy documents
Nik Altenberg (LALS ’23) writes for KQED News: “Federal immigration authorities will soon be required to release a trove of documents that have until now been shielded from public view.”
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Professor Ramírez co-edits “The Border is the Crisis: Reflections on the Centenary of the Immigration Act of 1924”
In this series commissioned by Catherine S. Ramírez and A. Naomi Paik, contributors examine the legacy of the Immigration Act of 1924 and the simultaneous launching of the Border Patrol, which, together, inaugurated the most restrictive era of US immigration history until our own.
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LALS presence at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference in Bogota, Colombia, June 12-15, 2024
Faculty and doctoral students from the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) attended the LASA Conference themed “Reaction and Resistance: Imagining Possible Futures in the Americas.