College of Letters & Science
CLS faculty member Marla Ramírez’s Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women who Endured Repatriation continues to win awards and inspire acclaim from many different corners. The book chronicles the expulsion of nearly one million people of Mexican descent between 1921 and 1944, more than 60 percent of whom were U.S. Citizens. Ramírez …
Marla A. Ramírez’s Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women who Endured Repatriation (Harvard University Press, 2025) continues to reach new audiences and win prestigious awards. Recently, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) recognized Banished Citizens with the Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and Gender History, which honors path-breaking books that challenge and/or change …
Congratulations to CLS Affiliate Faculty member Paola Hernández, who was recently honored with a Kellett Mid-Career Award by the University. Prof. Hernández is a Mellon-Morgridge professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, core faculty of Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, and affiliate faculty with the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies program. An award-winning scholar and teacher, Prof. …
Marla Ramírez’s essay “Gendered Banishment: Rewriting Mexican Repatriation through a Transgenerational Oral History Methodology” has won the Article Award from the Oral History Association, the principal membership organization for people committed to the value of oral history in the United States. Published in 2022, the article is part of a special issue of the journal …
Professor Armando Ibarra (School for Workers/CLS) has been awarded a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award provides generous research funding and is among the most prestigious awards granted by the university. With the award, Dr. Ibarra joins a growing list of CLS budgeted and affiliate faculty who have been named Vilas professors, including Theresa Delgadillo …
Carolina S. Sarmiento, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Human Ecology and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies faculty affiliate, has received the Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award from the UW System at a reception on November 10th. This honor is given annually to faculty, staff, students or community members to recognize their …
CLS faculty member and former director Armando Ibarra has won the “Hispanic Achievement of the Year” award from “La Movida” Radio, Madison’s Spanish-language radio station. The station will present Dr. Ibarra will be presented with the award at its 11th annual Hispanic Heritage month luncheon, October 13, 2021 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention …
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 …
Chican@ & Latin@ Studies affiliate faculty members Kate Vieira and Lori Lopez are among the thirteen faculty members honored by the University with Distinguished Teaching Awards for 2020. Prof. Lopez, an associate professor of Communication Arts, was recognized with the Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award, while Prof. Vieira, an associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction, received …
The Latino Caucus of the American Political Science Association has chosen CLS Director Armando Ibarra’s co-authored book The Latino Question: Politics, Laboring Classes, and the Next Left for the 2019 Best Book in Latino Politics Award. The caucus will recognize Prof. Ibarra and his collaborators, Alfredo Carlos of California State University Long Beach and Rodolfo Torres …