For CLS faculty member Marla Ramírez’s, Fall 2025 saw the publication of her highly successful first book and a notable research award from the Department of History. Her book Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women who Endured Repatriation (Harvard University Press 2025) promises to change the conversation about the expulsion of as …
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 …
The Chicanx & Latinx Studies Program proudly shares that Professor Armando Ibarra, former CLS Director, has been appointed by Governor Tony Evers to the Wisconsin Governor’s Council on Migrant Labor as a migrant representative. His term runs from November 26, 2025, through July 1, 2026. The Council brings together employer, migrant, and legislative representatives to …
CLS Director Theresa Delgadillo, who is also a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, published Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas, in September 2024, and since then, the book has earned notable awards and led to significant speaking engagements. In December of 2025, the Modern Language Association awarded the book its sixteenth Prize in United …
CLS Faculty member Almita Miranda won the 2025 “Nuevas Direcciones” award from the Association of Latina/o and Latinx Anthropologists for her work with the ¡Presente! project, which brings UW-Madison researchers and community archivists together with Wisconsin Historical Society through the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective. With support from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission, Prof. …
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. …
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 …
The open access academic journal, Latinx Talk, co-founded and co-edited by Professor Theresa Delgadillo, has been selected as part of the 2025-2028 cohort of the Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) of the Lyrasis network. OACIP mobilizes a national and international consortium of academic and public libraries, academic departments, institutions, research centers, museums, and funding agencies to …
Professor Victor Goldgel-Carballo (Spanish & Portuguese) has developed two exciting new classes, which he will teach next semester. “Introduction to Race in the Americas,” to be taught in English, examines how the experiences of marginalized groups in the U.S. are profoundly intertwined with hemispheric historical processes. In “Decolonial Debates,” to be taught in Spanish, students …
This past summer, I interned abroad as a Legal Trainee at Meana Abogados in Barcelona, Spain. In this role, I assisted with case preparation in criminal, family, and civil law matters by reviewing case files, drafting and translating documents in Spanish, Catalan, and English, and attending court proceedings. Beyond gaining meaningful legal experience in the …