In December of 2025, the Modern Language Association awarded its sixteenth Prize in United States Latina and Latina and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies to CLS Director Theresa Delgadillo for her 2024 book Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas. The Association’s press release notes that Geographies of Relation “masterfully combines borderlands and diaspora theorizing to read relationally, across minoritized difference, taking an extremely timely approach grounded in women-of-color feminist theory and Latinx and Black studies.” It further praises the study for advancing “relational approaches that challenge nationalism and racial exclusions, proposing ‘looking sideways’ and ‘intersecting diasporas’ as frameworks to achieve ‘new communities of belonging. in the Americas.” Theresa Delgadillo is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies. The Modern Language Association is the preeminent organization for scholars of language and literature in the United States.