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Katherine Vieira’s “Writing for Love and Money” Wins Book Prize

Posted on January 12, 2021

CLS Affilate faculty member Catherine Vieira’s recent book, Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families (Oxford UP 2019), won the 2020 Edward B. Fry Book Award from the Literacy …

Posted in NewsTagged CLS Faculty, Faculty Publications, Kate Vieira, Kudos, Literacy, Migration, Transnationalism, Writing

Michael Light Shows Crime Rates Among Undocumented Immigrants are Low

Posted on December 28, 2020

Crime rates among undocumented immigrants are just a fraction of those of their U.S.-born neighbors, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of Texas arrest and conviction records by Sociology/CLS Prof. Michael Light. Previous studies, including others …

Posted in NewsTagged Citizenship, CLS Faculty, Crime, Faculty Publications, Michael Light, Migration, Undocumented Immigrants

Benjamin Márquez to Publish the First Book on MALDEF

Posted on December 17, 2020

Can committed professional activists, paid by granting agencies to work through the legal system, change the world? That’s the question former CLS director Benjamin Márquez asks in The Politics of Patronage: Lawyers, Philanthropy, and the …

Posted in NewsTagged Benjamin Marquez, Books, CLS Faculty, Faculty Publications, MALDEF, Politics

CLS Alum Gilberto Osuna-León Helps Madison Respond to COVID-19

Posted on December 2, 2020

A recent news report on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Madison’s Latinx community highlights the work of CLS Alum and Jesus Salas Scholarship recipient Gilberto Osuna León (’20).  As a bilingual COVID-19 specialist …

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, COVID-19, Gilberto Osuna Leon, Latino Health Council, Patricia Tellez-Giron, Public Health

CLS Director Armando Ibarra on the “Latino” Vote

Posted on November 25, 2020

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, the mainstream press has struggled to understand the voting behavior of U.S. communities of Latin American descent.  In a recent op-ed for The Progressive, CLS Director Armando Ibarra …

Posted in NewsTagged Armando Ibarra, Faculty op-eds, National Politics, Politics

CLS Affiliate Prof. Barbato Calls for an End to Immigration Detention

Posted on October 12, 2020

Erin Barbato, a CLS affiliate faculty member in the UW School of Law and the director of the University’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, has published a forceful editorial in the Capital Times calling for an end …

Posted in NewsTagged CLS Faculty, Erin Barbato, Faculty op-eds, Human Rights, Immigration, National Politics, UW Law School, White Supremacy

CLS Program Welcomes New Faculty for Fall 2020

Posted on September 15, 2020

This fall, the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to welcome two new faculty members.  One of these, Dr. Theresa Delgadillo, is beginning her first year at the UW-Madison as Professor of English and …

Posted in NewsTagged CLS Academic Program, CLS Faculty, Diana Rodriguez-Gomez, Theresa Deladillo

CLS Faculty and Staff React to the Supreme Court’s DACA Decision

Posted on June 23, 2020

The faculty and staff of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program welcome the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.  We also commend Chancellor Blank for her statement on the case. The news comes at …

Posted in NewsTagged CLS Students, DACA, Faculty Statements, Immigration, National Politics, U.S. Supreme Court

CLS Statement of Solidarity and Consciousness

Posted on June 3, 2020

Like most people in the United States, the faculty and staff of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program find ourselves overwhelmed by grief and rage following recent reports of police and vigilante violence against African …

Posted in NewsTagged Faculty Statements, Human Rights, National Politics, White Supremacy

CLS Instructors win University Housing’s “Honored Instructor” Awards

Posted on May 7, 2020

CLS Instructors Rubén Medina (below, left) and Kristina Fullerton-Rico (left) are among the Spring 2020 recipients of University Housing’s “Honored Instructor” awards.  Each semester, University Housing residents vote to recognize outstanding classroom instructors through the …

Posted in NewsTagged CLS Faculty, CLS Lecturers, Honored Instructors, Kudos
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