College of Letters & Science
Carmen Raya, a member of the first class of Chican@ & Latin@ Studies majors to graduate from the UW–Madison, completed an internship in Chile this past summer. She interned with the Fulbright Commission in Chile as their assistant academic advisor through the UW–Madison International Academic Programs and IES Abroad Santiago. ¡Felicidades, Carmen! More information is …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the community around it are mourning the passing of Sylvia Garcia, who worked as the Program’s Administrator from 2008 to 2016. Born in 1952, Sylvia grew up in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She moved to Madison in 1970 to attend the University of Wisconsin. Here, …
On June 14th, the Board of Curators of the Wisconsin Historical Society gave the 2024 Governor’s Archives Award for Archival Achievement to the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective. This award recognizes a historical records repository that has made an outstanding contribution to the archival profession or a notable achievement of value to the archives community, its …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program seeks two teaching assistants for the Fall 2024 CHICLA 201 (“Introduction to Chican@ & Latin@ Studies”). Apply at the Student Jobs Portal The position is 50% (20 hours per week). Successful candidates will attend lectures MW 9:55-10:45 and facilitate 4 discussion sections each (Th 1:20pm, 2:25pm, 3:30pm, & 4:35pm …
Several members of the CLS familia were honored this week at the University’s annual Multicultural Graduation and Leadership Awards ceremony, including Academic Advising Manager Rachelle Eilers and graduating seniors Lenzy Xelhua-Ledezma and Cuauhtemoc Guizar. Lenzy Xelhua-Ledezma is a senior graduating this Spring with a double major in Chican@ & Latin@ Studies and Health Promotion Health …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to announce that Danitza Rodríguez-Jiménez and Mariela Sida have won the 2024 Somos Student Professional Development Awards, while advisor Rachelle Eilers has won the 2024 Somos Faculty and Staff Professional Development Award. Danitza is a senior majoring in International Studies and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies. She will use …
The CLS Program is delighted to announce that senior Yanci Almonte Vargas has won this year’s Jesús Salas Academic Activist Scholarship. A Latinx student of African ancestry, born and raised by a Black mother in the Dominican Republic, Yanci is majoring in Global Health with minors in Chican@ & Latin@ Studies and African Cultural Studies. …
CLS is seeking summer undergraduate research assistant(s) to provide research support for the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective’s (WLHC) oral history and archival projects on Latinx communities in the state. The student will be trained in historical and community-based research methods. Job responsibilities include: (1) helping process oral histories (e.g. transcribing, proofing, metadata creation, and summaries); …
In case you missed it, the College of Letters and Science has created an excellent video portrait of the new major in Chican@ & Latin@ Studies, centered on a great interview with Rachelle Eilers, the CLS Program’s Academic Advising Manager.
The CLS Program seeks a lecturer or lecturers to teach CHICLA 210 (“Chicana/o and Latina/o Cultural Studies”) and CHICLA 501 (“Chicana/o and Latina/o Social Movements in the US”) online. For more information and to apply, visit the UW–Madison job portal.