CLS affiliate faculty member Kate Vieira is this year’s winner of the Kay W. Levin Award for Short Nonfiction from the Art+Literature Laboratory for an essay titled “Someone Else’s Language” that was published in Guernica Magazine. …
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Professor Armando Ibarra awarded Vilas Distinguished Professorship
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. …
CLS Affiliate Prof. Diego Román Wins Distiguished Teaching Award
CLS affiliate faculty member Diego Román, an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, has won a distinguished teaching award from the University. He is one of twelve UW-Madison scholars so honored this year, and the …
Armando Ibarra named Distinguished Alumnus by California State University, Chico
Former CLS director Armando Ibarra has been named a distinguished alumnus by his undergraduate alma mater, California State University, Chico. The institution has also published an interview with Prof. Ibarra exploring the scholarship and farmworker …
CLS Affiliate Pacheco Named one of Wisconsin’s Most Influential Latino Leaders
The online news publication Madsion365 has placed Prof. Mariana Pacheco Ortiz on its list of the 46 most influential Latino leaders in Wisconsin. Every year since its founding in 2015, Madison365 has compiled this list …
Paola Hernández Publishes “Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre”
CLS Affiliate professor Paola S. Hernández has published Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre with co-author Analola Santana. Published by Routledge, the book offers a critical introduction to the most influential and innovative …
Edna Ledesma Receives PARCI Grant to Study Farmers Markets
CLS affiliate faculty member Edna Ledesma (Planning & Landscape Architecture) has recieved a Pandemic Affected Research grant to continue a longitudinal study of four Latino Vendor Markets (LVM), classified as flea markets or swap meets, …
Almita Miranda Receives PARCI Grant to Study Mixed-Status Families
Almita Miranda, Assistant Professor of Geography and Chican@ and Latin@ Studies, received funding from the Pandemic-Affected Research Continuation Initiative (PARCI) to conduct follow-up ethnographic research with return migrants and transnational family networks in rural communities …
Marla Ramírez Receives PACI Grant for Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative
Congratulations to CLS faculty member Marla Andrea Ramírez Tahuado, who has secured funding from OVCRGE’s Pandemic-Affected Research Continuation Initiative for oral history research on undocumented youth organizing in the United States.
CLS Faculty Receive Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Grants
Two teams headed by CLS affiliate faculty have secured significant grants for applied research from the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment. One team led by Clinical Professor of Law Erin Barbato, will help to create a …