College of Letters & Science
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.
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program Student Assistant A student hourly/work study position is available for the Spring 2024 semester in the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program. The position may be extended to future semesters at the discretion of the Program’s Director. This position requires general clerical and administrative tasks, maintenance of the CLS …
Armando Ibarra, a Professor with the School for Workers and former Director of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program, was quoted in a recent story on Centro Hispano of Dane County published by the Capital Times. The story describes the work of Centro Hispano, the leading nonprofit organization serving Latinx in Dane County. In an …
Each year, UW–Madison students living in University Housing may recognize outstanding educators via the Honored Instructor program. Through this program, University Housing takes nominations from students who want to honor instructors who challenge and inspire students, make learning fun, and otherwise excel in the classroom. The Fall 2023 list of Honored Instructors includes Denise Oyuki …
After two years of a successful NHPRC-Mellon planning grant, faculty affiliated with the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program, in partnership with the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective (WLHC), the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), and other collaborators, have secured continued funding from the National Archives to support the implementation phase of a 10-year project titled ¡Presente!: Documenting Latinx History in Wisconsin. Led by Profs. Almita …