The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is proud to be the major UW-Madison partner for the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective, a new initiative involving the Wisconsin Historical Society and a growing group of academics and …
Month: January 2021
CLS Mourns the Passing of Regent José Delgado
The faculty and staff of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program joins the University of Wisconsin System in mourning the passing of Regent José Delgado. More information about Regent Delgado and his contributions to the …
Rubén Medina receives Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award
Folks in the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program were delighted to learn that one of our own, Prof. Rubén Medina (Spanish & Portuguese/CLS), has received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Medina is one of …
Paola Hernández to Publish “Staging Lives in Latin American Theater”
In April, 2021, Northwestern University Press will release CLS affiliate professor Paola Hernández’s book Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives, which examines twenty-first-century documentary theater in Latin America, focusing on important plays …
Katherine Vieira’s “Writing for Love and Money” Wins Book Prize
CLS Affilate faculty member Catherine Vieira’s recent book, Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families (Oxford UP 2019), won the 2020 Edward B. Fry Book Award from the Literacy …