LAIS undergraduate major, Lee Leal-Ramirez, join us to talk about what motivates her to study Latin America and her work with Neogranadina. Read on to learn more!  What motivated you […]

r. Anabel Ford (Anthropology) and colleagues Sherman Horn, Thomas Crimmel, Justin Tran, and Jason Woo, have a new article in Popular Archaeology, “Modeling Ancient Maya Landscapes”. In this article Dr. Ford […]

Professor G. Reginald Daniel’s (Sociology) book, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist (2012), is featured in the New York Review of Books as part of an article on the Brazilian writer Joaquim […]

Marisol Ramos has received a grant from the Librarians Association of the University of California. This grant will support proofreading, editing, and translation of one chapter for a book she is […]

Professors San Juanita Garcia and Erika Arenas Velazquez, and Dr. Emiko Saldivar have been awarded the 2021 UCSB Migration Initiative Grant to support their project, “UndocuAging in Times of COVID-19: Stress, Mental Health, and Resistant […]

Professor Alicia Boswell has been awarded the Hellman Family Fellowship which will fund archaeological fieldwork in the Piura valley of Northern Peru focusing on the sociopolitical implications of the gilding methods used […]

Dr. Miroslava Chavez-Garcia (History) has received a University of California Humanities Research Institute Grant to support the California Eugenics Legacies Project. This project takes a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to […]

El programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos en Ibéricos de la Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara, condena los actos de violencia que la fuerza pública colombiana está perpetrando contra la población civil […]

The program in Latin American and Iberian Studies at UCSB condemns the acts of violence perpetrated by Colombia’s law enforcement against the civilian population since April 28th, 2021, in the midst of […]