Congratulations to LAIS graduate affiliate Yuri Fraccaroli (Feminist Studies) for their 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, which will allow them to pursue their project “¡Archivo vivo! An Ethnography of the […]

Dr. Marisol Ramos is a scholar and archivist affiliated with LAIS. Currently, she serves as the subject librarian for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and Chicana/o Studies at the […]

The LAIS Program congratulates Laura Marqués-Pascual (Spanish and Portuguese) who, along with Irene Checa-García, co-edited/authored Current Perspectives in Spanish Lexical Development. It was published in 2023 by De Gruyter Mouton […]

Congratulations to Professor Jeffrey Hoelle (Anthropology), who was selected to co-lead an international research initiative in the Amazon through the Fullbright Amazonia Scholars program of 2022-2024. The initiative is aimed […]

The LAIS Program congratulates Professor Miroslava Chavez-Garcia who co-authored with Yvette Martínez-Vu, Is Grad School for Me?: Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students. It has been published with […]

Congratulations to Professor Elide Valarini Oliver (Spanish and Portuguese) for receiving the Prêmio Paulo Rónai, awarded by the Biblioteca Nacional of Brazil for her translation and critical edition of O […]

Congratulations to Professor David López-Carr (Geography) who won a grant with UCSB ISBER Collaborative Research Initiative Grant Program for the years 2022-2023 to work on the project  “Integrating planetary health […]

Congratulations to Professor Veronica Castillo-Munoz (History) who was invited by the National Museum of the Mexican Revolution and the Casasola Foundation to collaborate on a major exhibit about a Mexican […]