On May 31st the LAIS Program welcomed all UCSB LAIS affiliates to celebrate the achievements of our staff, faculty, and students with presentations, awards, and a lunch! Our LAIS Program […]

Congratulations to Professor Sara Poot-Herrera (Spanish and Portuguese) for the publication of four separate book chapters, one introduction, and one commentary in 2023. They are as follows: “Presentación: Rosa divina” […]

The LAIS Program congratulates Professor Aline Ferreira (Spanish and Portuguese) for the publication of her new book The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Interpreting and Bilingualism, which she coauthored with John […]

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 […]