Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor Theresa Delgadillo, who is also the Director of Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies, was recently interviewed about her latest book, Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the America, published by University of Michigan Press, for the international scholarly books podcast New Books Network. Professor Delgadillo was interviewed about her research by Shodona Kettle from the Institute of the Americas at University College London. The podcast was published on December 2, 2025 and you can listen to the podcast here.
Professor Delgadillo delivered the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Lecture at Claremont McKenna College in California in October 2025. Professor Delgadillo’s lecture drew from her recent research in Geographies of Relation and extended this in new directions to consider the work of three twentieth and twenty-first century photographers dedicated to portraying African diaspora communities across the hemisphere. Her lecture, titled “Borderlands and Diasporas: Contemporary Photography’s Engagements with Race in the Americas,” was well received by Claremont McKenna students, faculty, and scholars gathered for a symposium on “The Future of Comparative Racializations.”