Prof. Jaime Alves has Received a Fellowship!
Congratulations to Professor Jaime Alves (Black Studies) who received the Burdick Scholar Fellowship as a part of UC Santa Barbara’s Area Global Initiative for 2024-2025. He is now leading a
Congratulations to Professor Jaime Alves (Black Studies) who received the Burdick Scholar Fellowship as a part of UC Santa Barbara’s Area Global Initiative for 2024-2025. He is now leading a
Congratulations to Professor Carlos Morton (Theater and Dance) who was honored with Texas State’s Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration Distinguished Achievement Award of 2023 for his dedication to and sustained
Dr. Giovanni Batz, an Assistant Professor in the Chicano/a Studies department, recently joined the LAIS Program as an affiliated faculty member. He specializes in Maya social movements and resistance, extractivist
Congratulations to Professor Alicia Boswell (History of Art and Architecture), who won a one-year fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC, a Harvard-affiliated research institute, in the Pre-Columbian area of
Jennifer Valenzuela joined the LAIS Master’s Program in Fall 2023. In this interview she shared her motivations to study Latin America, her research interests, and the role her family played
Congratulations to Professor Antonio Cortijo Ocaña (Spanish and Portuguese) who published Modernidad y Sociedad Civil: La retórica de Boncompagno da Signa y el nacimiento de la sociedad civil as part
The Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies (LAIS) is pleased to announce its new LAIS graduate affiliates initiative. This new affiliate program will connect graduate students enrolled in departments
Reginald Daniel, Professor in the Sociology department and a LAIS Faculty Affiliate, was a dear member of the LAIS community. Passionate and generous as a mentor and colleague, he was
In our second Tertulia of the year, on Friday December 1st, we welcomed Dr. Giovanni Batz an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at UCSB, specializing in extractivist
Our first tertulia & lunch of the year took place on October 20 and featured Lydia Fossa, an independent scholar specialized in Andean colonial and indigenous history and literatures. Dr.