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 […]

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. […]

LAIS congratulates Prof. André Corrêa De Sá on the publication of his book, Ecofagias. The book examines some of the narratives through which societies in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa and […]