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 focused on the health and safety of essential immigrant workers. In partnership with the Milwaukee-based community organization Voces de la …
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 & Latina/o Studies’ – 8/23/21 – 1/5/2022 and 1/6/2022 – 5/22/2022 -CHICLA 210, ‘Chican@ & Latin@ Cultural Studies’ – 8/23/21 …
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 of CLS Certificate students who have made outstanding contributions to the community. The Somos awards provide funding for professional development …
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 Examiner on the growing media panic about the situation at the southern border. Prof. Barbato and colleagues who practice immigration …
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 one non-Hispanic White man’s “bad day.” In this context, we the undersigned the faculty and staff of the Chican@ & …
When the Congressional Hispanic Caucus nominated 25 films on Latinx themes, including Gregory Nava’s Selena, for inclusion in the National Film Registry, the New York Times needed expert analysis. They turned to Theresa Delgadillo, a professor of English and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies here at the UW-Madison. “It is an important way to influence that diversity …
Political Science doctoral candidate Kennia Coronado has won an Early Excellence Award for her fine work with POLI SCI/CHICLA 231, “Politics in Multi-Cultural Societies,” taught by CLS affiliate professor Benjamin Márquez. The Early Excellence Award recognizes outstanding and inspirational performance by teaching assistants with fewer than four semesters of experience in the classroom. The University …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program seeks a Project Assistant to help with publications, events, and outreach during the 2021-2022 academic year. If you’re a graduate student at the UW-Madison and you’re interested in the program, think about applying through the Student Jobs Center. The application window is March 5th through April 9th.
CLS Director Armando Ibarra is among the authors of a recent report from the UW-Madison School for Workers on workplace safety in Wisconsin during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. In the United States, COVID-19 has devastated the lives of essential workers, their families and their communities. While many in the U.S. can work from home during …
On Friday, February 5th, CLS Emerita Andrea-Teresa (“Tess”) Arenas joined WPR’s Rob Ferrett on the afternoon talk show “Central Time” to describe the ongoing efforts of the UW-Madison Latinx History Collective. The two discussed the progress of the initiative and the efforts of university- and community-based researchers all over the state and the Wicsonsin Historical …