College of Letters & Science
In April, 2021, Northwestern University Press will release CLS affiliate professor Paola Hernández’s book Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives, which examines twenty-first-century documentary theater in Latin America, focusing on important plays by the Argentine director Vivi Tellas, the Argentine playwright and director Lola Arias, the Mexican theater collective Teatro Línea de …
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 Research Association. The award recognizes books written in the last five years that advance knowledge about literacy, display inquiry into …
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 published by Light, have drawn similar, though less direct, conclusions. These studies were limited to comparing crime rate trends to …
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 Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to be published in July of this year by the University of Texas …
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 with the Latino Health Council, Gilberto works at Madison’s testing sites, registering patients, sharing results, and administering tests. Having studied …
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 argues that class differences, occupational niches, and different Cold War histories are central to understanding Latinx voters’. Ibarra argues that …
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 to immigration detention in the United States. She notes that recent reports of forced sterilizations in immigration detention facilities have …
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 Chican@ & Latin@ Studies. A native of Milwaukee, Prof. Delgadillo is a noted authority on U.S. Latinx spirituality and religion, …
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 a time when the University and the country as a whole are facing unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, …
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 Americans. The killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery are, unfortunately, only the latest examples of a nationwide pattern of disregard for Black …