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LAIS Teaching Associate Alba Constenla Torrado offered Tenure Track Position
Congratulations to LAIS Teaching Associate Alba Constenla Torrado who has accepted a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor in the… read more
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Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Sara Poot-Herrera have a new publication.
LAIS affiliates, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Sara Poot-Herrera (both Spanish and Portuguese), have just published a carefully researched edition of El… read more
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Interview with LAIS Alumna, Christine Khrlobian
Christine Khrlobian is an LAIS M.A. Alumna (2019), we recently caught up with her to learn more about what led… read more
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Interview with LAIS Alumna, Fátima Andrade Martinez
Fátima Andrade Martinez is a recent LAIS Alumna (2019), we recently caught up with her to learn more about what… read more
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Michael Gurven published in the Lancet on Covid-19 and indigenous populations
Faculty affiliate, Michael Gurven (Anthropology), and colleagues, including other anthropologists, physicians and tribal leaders, have developed a strategy for managing… read more
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Interview with Suzanne Levine
LAIS affiliated faculty, literary scholar, poet, translator and Emerita Professor, Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish and Portuguese) earned a BA at… read more
University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
Photograph: Tristan Partridge
Welcome to LAIS
The Latin American and Iberian Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara is devoted to the study of the histories, languages, literatures, and cultures of the peoples of Latin America and Iberia, from antiquity to the present day, and of their diasporas in Africa, Asia, and the Americas — including the Latino/a communities of the United States.
Our affiliated faculty, scholars, and students examine a diversity of themes and issues — including history, religion, politics, gender, language, literature, music, and performance — drawing on a broad range of disciplines across the humanities, fine arts, social sciences, and more.
This rich and engaged scholarly community allows us to offer our students thorough interdisciplinary training in our undergraduate major and minor and in the MA in Latin American and Iberian Studies, and to support PhD students engaged in the study of Latin America and Iberia across campus. Join us!