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

Marisol Ramos’s (Subject Librarian for LAIS) project, the #RickyRenuncia Project, which she managed with two Puerto Rican archival colleagues, about last year’s massive protests in Puerto Rico that forced the previous