Armando Ibarra, a Professor with the School for Workers and former Director of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program, was quoted in a recent story on Centro Hispano of Dane County published by the Capital Times. The story describes the work of Centro Hispano, the leading nonprofit organization serving Latinx in Dane County. In an …
Each year, UW–Madison students living in University Housing may recognize outstanding educators via the Honored Instructor program. Through this program, University Housing takes nominations from students who want to honor instructors who challenge and inspire students, make learning fun, and otherwise excel in the classroom. The Fall 2023 list of Honored Instructors includes Denise Oyuki …
After two years of a successful NHPRC-Mellon planning grant, faculty affiliated with the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program, in partnership with the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective (WLHC), the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), and other collaborators, have secured continued funding from the National Archives to support the implementation phase of a 10-year project titled ¡Presente!: Documenting Latinx History in Wisconsin. Led by Profs. Almita …
Marla Ramírez’s essay “Gendered Banishment: Rewriting Mexican Repatriation through a Transgenerational Oral History Methodology” has won the Article Award from the Oral History Association, the principal membership organization for people committed to the value of oral history in the United States. Published in 2022, the article is part of a special issue of the journal …
When NPR’s Franco Ordoñez needed context for a story on the Latine vote in Wisconsin and a later follow-up, he turned to CLS affiliate faculty member and former Director Benjamin Márquez (Political Science). Prof. Márquez explained that while voters of Latin American descent tend to vote Democratic, they are not “committed Democratic ideologues.” He noted …
A recent story by Pro Publica on the problems facing undocumented dairy workers in Wisconsin who cannot obtain driver’s licenses drew on needs assessment of Wisconsin’s farmworkers authored by CLS Professor Armando Ibarra and his colleague Alexia Kulwiec of the UW-Madison School for Workers. After the passage of the 2006 RealID act, Wisconsin stopped granting …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program joins the Madison community in mourning the loss of community leader Juan Jose Lopez. One of many ethnic Mexican students who came to the University from Texas during the 1980s, Mr. Lopez remained in Madison after completing a BA in social welfare in 1990. Since then, he distinguished himself …
On May 13, 2023 in Ingraham B10, the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program recognized eighty one students from a variety of majors who are graduating with our Program’s Certificate, another record-breaking class. Assistant Dean Emerita Andrea-Teresa “Tess” Arenas gave a moving address recognizing our graduates’ hard work and the thanking those who struggled for so …
The undersigned faculty and staff of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program join the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s administration as well as ChiLaCSA and other student groups, in condemning a recent video of a profane and abusive racist rant that has provoked a disturbance in the University community. We also applaud the recent statement by Deputy …
CLS affiliate faculty member Kate Vieira is this year’s winner of the Kay W. Levin Award for Short Nonfiction from the Art+Literature Laboratory for an essay titled “Someone Else’s Language” that was published in Guernica Magazine. The essay is a meditation on language and culture drawn from Prof. Vieira’s experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in …