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 …
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Michael Light Shows Crime Rates Among Undocumented Immigrants are Low
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 …
Benjamin Márquez to Publish the First Book on MALDEF
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 …
Table Talk: Cafe Con Pan Edition with Armando Ibarra
Join CLS Director Armando Ibarra for a virtual “Coffee and Conversation” discussion live on the CLS Instragram page.
LACIS Migration Seminar Series – “Immigration from Latin America to the Midwest”
Join Drs. Almita Miranda, Marla Ramírez, and José Villagrán, along with Alfredo Carlos of CSU Long Beach for a panel on migration from Latin America to the Midwest, moderated by CLS Director Armando Ibarra. Immigration …
Table Talk: Cafe Con Leche Edition with Revel Sims
Join Prof. Revel Sims for a virtual “Coffee and Conversation” discussion live on the CLS Instragram page.
CLS Affiliate Prof. Barbato Calls for an End to Immigration Detention
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 …
CLS Program Open House
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program will hold a virtual open house on September 24th, 2020 at noon. The event will be part of the University’s Latinx Heritage Month celebration. Join us to learn about …
CLS Program Welcomes New Faculty for Fall 2020
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 …
CLS Instructors win University Housing’s “Honored Instructor” Awards
CLS Instructors Rubén Medina (below, left) and Kristina Fullerton-Rico (left) are among the Spring 2020 recipients of University Housing’s “Honored Instructor” awards. Each semester, University Housing residents vote to recognize outstanding classroom instructors through the …