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Suzanne Levine interview in “Southwest Review”
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 […]
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Paul Amar (Director of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies) receives two prestigious grants
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 […]
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Cristina Vengas receives two awards for 2020-2021 and co-edits a book
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 […]
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Evelyne Laurent-Perrault publishes in Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism
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 […]
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Marisol Ramos’s work on the 2019 Puerto Rico protests part of an IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant
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 […]
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David Lopez-Carr and colleagues publish on conservation in Latin America
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 […]
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Anabel Ford and colleagues awarded five-year National Science Foundation grant
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 […]
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Cecilia Méndez featured in the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Web News
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 […]
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Watch: Coronavirus and Historical Patterns of Epidemics in Latin America
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 […]
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Congratulations to LAIS students Favián Muralles (BA) and Christine Khrlobian (MA)
Congratulations to LAIS students Favián Muralles (BA) and Christine Khrlobian (MA) for receiving the LAIS 2019-2020 student awards! Favián Muralles (BA) received the 2019-2020 Undergraduate Award for Exemplary Academic Performance. […]