The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is pleased to announce the opening of the 2020 Jesus Salas Scholarship Competition. Every Spring, we offer a $500 scholarship to an exceptional undergraduate enrolled in the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Certificate who has both excelled academically and made outstanding service contributions to the Chican@ and Latin@ Community. Applications …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Latinx Studies Journal. Previously known as Concientización, this peer-reviewed journal of undergraduate writing promotes the study of Chican@ and Latin@ experience and thought. Student contributions to the journal include essays, stories, memoirs, and poems exploring themes related to …
Reporter Alejandra Canales of the Daily Cardinal spoke to CLS faculty and alumni recently. Her welcome and thoughtful story on the Program, its history, and its roots in student struggles from the 1960s to the present day appears in the November 1, 2019 issue of the Daily Cardinal. CLS faculty members Benjamin Marquez and Armando …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to welcome three new affiliate faculty members for the 2019-2020 academic year. Among our new colleagues is Sara McKinnon, an Associate Professor in the Communication Arts Department. Prof. McKinnon has an extensive publication record and is an expert on transnational rhetoric, gender studies, and legal rhetoric. Her 2016 book Gendered …
As scholars of race and ethnicity in the United States, we were disappointed to learn that the University’s Homecoming Committee had posted a video online that ended up deepening the sense of alienation felt by many students of color on campus instead of contributing to the celebration. Students have raised their voices about this, and we hear …
As a new semester begins, The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to welcome our newest faculty colleagues to campus. If you’re interested in migration, borders, and citizenship, you’ll want to get to know these top-notch scholars. Joining the CLS Program with a joint appointment in Geography is Assistant Professor Almita Miranda. Dr. Miranda …
As scholars of Chicanx & Latinx Studies we rely on words to do our work, but we struggle to find them in the wake of the recent mass shootings by white supremacists in El Paso, Dayton, and Gilroy, California, and workplace ICE raids in food production plants in Mississippi. These attacks hit home, and they …
The Latino Caucus of the American Political Science Association has chosen CLS Director Armando Ibarra’s co-authored book The Latino Question: Politics, Laboring Classes, and the Next Left for the 2019 Best Book in Latino Politics Award. The caucus will recognize Prof. Ibarra and his collaborators, Alfredo Carlos of California State University Long Beach and Rodolfo Torres …
Latinx politics in Wisconsin was in the national spotlight recently as the President visited Milwaukee for a fundraising dinner and Democratic Presidential hopefuls spoke to the League of United Latin American Citizens’ 2019 Convention. On July 9th, CLS Affiliate Professor and former Director Ben Márquez spoke to Wisconsin Public Television’s “Here and Now” about the …
On May 11th, the CLS community gathered at the Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium to celebrate the second-largest graduating class in the Program’s history…