Professor Cecilia Méndez (History), LAIS Program Director,  was interviewed by the Peruvian newspaper La República about current events and politics in Peru. The interview can be found here: ‘La Republica’ article.

Professor Jeff Hoelle (Anthropology) had an op-ed in the LA Times about the fires in Brazil in August, 2019. His piece can be found here: LA Times article.

Professors Miroslava Chávez-García and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz (History) have served as guest editors in the Winter 2020 issue of the Pacific Historical Review’s special issue, “Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico […]

Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at UCSB. In his most recent publication ‘Queering Black Atlantic Religions’ (2019), Professor Strongman offers a novel analysis of […]

Award Recipient: Evelyne Laurent Perrault Award Date: Thursday, February 13, 2020 Professor Evelyne Laurent-Perrault has been awarded Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library […]

Miroslava Chávez-García is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She is the author of Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s (Tucson, […]

LAIS is pleased to share a recent publication by the Santa Barbara Independent Newspaper which features ‘Hostile Terrain 94’. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands […]

Thelma Patnett is LAIS M.A. Alumna (2018), she is now pursuing a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.  What led you to pursue an MA […]