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 […]

Professor David Lopez-Carr (Geography) and colleagues recently published two articles that address conservation and land use concerns in Latin America. “Examining the relationship between migration and forest cover change in […]

Congratulations to Dr. Anabel Ford and colleagues! Dr. Ford’s El Pilar Project has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate ancient Maya settlement patterns and […]

LAIS Director Cecilia Méndez (History) is featured in the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Web News for her July 28, 2020, article in Ojo Público, “La independencia: una revolución olvidada (Independence: A […]

A Zoom Talk by Dr. Marcos Cueto Watch the Facebook Live video here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=2919408944833366 Friday May 22nd, at 12 pm – 1:30 pm (PST), via Zoom Abstract. Historical studies on […]