College of Letters & Science
The Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies Program joins the wider community in mourning the recent loss of Dolores Huerta. A pathbreaking labor leader and community activist whose career spanned more than four decades, Huerta is best known as a co-founder of the United Farm Workers. Her leadership contributed to UFW victories in the late 1960s and …
Congratulations to CLS Director Theresa Delgadillo, who has been selected as a recipient of the Open Scholarship Award at UW–Madison for her work as Co-Editor and Co-Founder of LatinX Talk, a diamond open access publication that features brief articles based on original research in Latinx/e studies. Delgadillo was selected as a recipient of this award …
Congratulations to Dr. Marla Ramírez, whose book, “Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation“, has just won the David J. Weber Prize for the best book on the Southwestern United States from the Western History Association. “Banished Citizens” explores the period in American immigration history when approximately one million ethnic …
Madison 365 has named Dr. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies affiliate, one of twenty-three most influential Latino Leaders. Meléndez-Badillo is recognized for the launch of UW–Madison’s Puerto Rican Studies Hub, historical texts that accompanied Bad Bunny’s 2025 album, and recent book publications. Read the entire list here.
The Spring 2026 issue of Latinx Studies Journal, the CLS Program’s peer-reviewed journal of student writing and art, is now published. Congratulations to outgoing CLS Project Assistant Carmen Ibarra, who served as coordinating editor for the journal, and to our contributors: Reyli Cerda-Martinez Alexandra Galang Alexa Iraheta Angeline Morgado Ava Tijerina A special word of thanks …
Dr. Emmet Campos arrived at UW–Madison as part of a cohort of Chicane students recruited from Texas. While on campus, he was very involved with Mecha and creating community with fellow Chicane students. While he has since left Wisconsin for University of Texas-Austin, he remains connected to Wisconsin and those he met while attending UW–Madison, …
I began working for the Center for Campus History and CLS in the fall of 2024 as an undergraduate research assistant. I was nervous at the beginning because I hadn’t conducted an intense, year-long research project before, but most importantly, I wanted to do a good job and accurately represent the history of CLS the …
The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program was an opportunity that I had known about since my first semester on campus through my scholarship program, the Center for Academic Excellence. Ever since, the opportunity kept coming up as something I could pursue, almost as if it were haunting me until I committed to it. Unintentionally, …
After 35 years of brilliant teaching, pathbreaking research, and tireless advocacy for the Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies Program, Prof. Benjamin Márquez is retiring. During his years in higher education, he has published no less than five books (two of them award-winning). Among the most notable are The Politics of Patronage: Lawyers, Philanthropy, and the Mexican …
The Puerto Rican Studies Hub (PRSH) at the University of Wisconsin Madison is closing its first year with a strong record of public programming, scholarly exchange, mentorship, campus collaboration, and institutional growth. Since its launch, the Hub has positioned UW–Madison as an important site for Puerto Rican Studies in the Midwest, creating spaces where scholars, …