The CLS Community Gatherings return as virtual events for Spring 2021. On April 16, CLS faculty will share news about what they are teaching for the Summer and Fall of 2021. For more information …
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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 Community Gathering: “ALL CLS”
The CLS Community Gatherings return as virtual events for Spring 2021. On March 19 we continue with a conversation about the CLS Program itself. For more information or for joining links, contact Rachelle Eilers, …
New York Times quotes CLS Prof. Delgadillo on National Film Registry
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 …
CLS Community Gathering: Latinx in COVID
The CLS Community Gatherings return as virtual events for Spring 2021. On February 19 we kick it off with a conversation about Madison Latinx life in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Student Amy …
CLS Director Ibarra Contributes to COVID Worker Safety Report
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 …
Jesus Salas Scholarship, Somos Award Competitions Open
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to announce the opening of the 2021 Jesus Salas Academic Activist Scholarship Competition and the 2021 “Somos” Development Award Competition for students and faculty. Applications for all …
CLS Joins a New Effort to Document Latinx History in Wisconsin
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is proud to be the major UW-Madison partner for the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective, a new initiative involving the Wisconsin Historical Society and a growing group of academics and …
Rubén Medina receives Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award
Folks in the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program were delighted to learn that one of our own, Prof. Rubén Medina (Spanish & Portuguese/CLS), has received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Medina is one of …