Professors Miroslava Chávez-García and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz (History) have served as guest editors in the Winter 2020 issue of the Pacific Historical Review’s special issue, “Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico
Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at UCSB. In his most recent publication ‘Queering Black Atlantic Religions’ (2019), Professor Strongman offers a novel analysis of
Award Recipient: Evelyne Laurent Perrault Award Date: Thursday, February 13, 2020 Professor Evelyne Laurent-Perrault has been awarded Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library
Miroslava Chávez-García is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She is the author of Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s (Tucson,
LAIS is pleased to share a recent publication by the Santa Barbara Independent Newspaper which features ‘Hostile Terrain 94’. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands
Thelma Patnett is LAIS M.A. Alumna (2018), she is now pursuing a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. What led you to pursue an MA
Professor Juan Cobo Betancourt, LAIS Faculty, is currently in Rhode Island at the John Carter Brown Library on a nine-month fellowship researching and writing “The coming of the Kingdom: the
The Latin American and Iberian Studies Program (LAIS) is proud to recognize, and thank the lecturers, Dr. Emily Engel, Alba Constenla Torrado, and Mario Tumen who taught Program courses in
Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Congratulations to Associate Professor Roberto Strongman’s Queering Black Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé,
Rosa Rodriguez is a first year MA student in the LAIS Program. She completed her Undergraduate studies at CSU Long Beach and double majored in Sociology and Chicano Latino studies.
