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 […]

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. […]

Award Recipient: Dolores Inés Casillas and Myriam Gonzales-Smith Award Date: Friday, June 5th, 2020 By vote of LAIS undergraduate and graduate Students, professors Dolores Inés Casillas (Chicana and Chicano Studies […]

Congratulations to LAIS Teaching Associate Alba Constenla Torrado who has accepted a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of World Languages, at the School of Languages, Literatures, […]

LAIS affiliates, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Sara Poot-Herrera (both Spanish and Portuguese), have just published a carefully researched edition of El pregonero de Dios y Patriarca de los Dioses by Br. […]