The LAIS March 2020 Tertulia, “Coronavirus and Historic Patterns of Epidemics in Latin America” with Dr. Marcos Cueto, featured by the Humanities and Fine Arts News at UC Santa Barbara. […]

Professor Miroslava Chavez-Garcia (History) was interviewed about the forced sterilizations of migrant women in detention in Georgia. You can read the article HERE. 

Professor Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) has a book in press with Routledge/Taylor & Francis titled The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus that deals with music in medieval Iberia from the Muslim conquest in 711 CE […]

LAIS invites affiliated faculty, instructors, students, alumni and staff to propose Roundtable Tertulias.  In these extraordinary times, LAIS proposes to fund up to six virtual tertulias for the 2020-2021 academic year […]

Professor Melissa Morgan (Gevirtz Graduate School of Education) made Full Professor this year and became a Fellow of the American Psychological Association! The LAIS family congratulates Professor Morgan on these two achievements. 

Professor Suzanne Levine (Spanish and Portuguese) interviewed in Southwest Review about becoming a protagonist in the story of Latin American literature in English translation, her working publishing biographies and translations, and creating a mashup of […]

Congratulations to Professor Paul Amar (Director of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, and Professor of Global Studies) and the Orfalea Center for receiving $240,000 from the Ford […]

Congratulations to Professor Cristina Vengas (Film and Media Studies) who has received a UCSB Faculty Research Grant and an Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship for 2020-2021.  Professor Vengas’ also co-edited Digital […]

Professor Evelyne Laurent-Perrault’s (History) recent essay, in Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism, engages Vanessa K. Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. It traces Valdés’s main contributions […]