Two teams headed by CLS affiliate faculty have secured significant grants for applied research from the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment. One team led by Clinical Professor of Law Erin Barbato, will help to create a …
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Congratulations to the 2021 Jesus Salas Academic Activist Scholar!
The CLS Program is delighted to congratulate Priscilla Contreras, this year’s recipient of the Jesus Salas Academic Activist Scholarship. This award is conferred annually on a Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program Undergraduate Certificate student who …
Congratulations to the 2021 Somos Professional Development Award Recipients!
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Somos Professional Development Awards for students and faculty. Spring 2021 marks the second round of competitions, and the Program is …
CLS Faculty/Staff Statement in Response to the Chauvin Trial
The undersigned faculty and staff of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hail the Minnesota jury’s guilty verdict on the charges in the death of George Floyd. This verdict is …
CLS Affiliate Diego Román to Study Education of Rural English Language Learners
CLS Affiliate Faculty member Diego Román (Principal Investigator), along with Co-Investigators Dr. Lisa Barker (PLACE) and Dr. Patrick Robinson (Division of Extension), will lead an interdisciplinary study that will bring together Latinx students and families …
CLS Faculty to Study Essential Immigrant Workers, Inequality, and COVID-19
CLS faculty members Revel Sims (Planning & Landscape Architecture/CLS), Carolina Sarmiento (Civil Society & Community Studies), and Armando Ibarra (School for Workers/CLS) have received a grant from the University for a participatory action research project …
CLS Seeks Lecturers for Fall 2021
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is hiring lecturers to teach during the Fall 2021 and/or Spring 2022 term. The position will teach one or more of the following courses: -CHICLA 201, ‘Introduction to Chicana/o …
Deadline Extended for Salas and Somos Awards
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program has extended the application deadline for the Regent Jesus Salas Academic Activist Scholarship and the Somos Professional Development Awards for students and faculty. The Salas Scholarship recognizes the achievements …
No Border Crisis: CLS Affiliate Erin Barbato in the “Examiner”
Is a “surge” of migrant youth causing a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border? Not if you ask CLS affiliate faculty member Erin Barbato. Her comment appeared in a recent article by Ruth Conniff in the Wisconsin …
CLS Faculty and Staff Response to Anti-Asian Violence
As details emerge about the murderous attacks on businesses in Georgia, one thing should be clear. Nearly two centuries of open structural racism and sexual imperialism against people of Asian descent cannot be reduced to …