College of Letters & Science
In December of 2025, the Modern Language Association awarded its sixteenth Prize in United States Latina and Latina and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies to CLS Director Theresa Delgadillo for her 2024 book Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas. The Association’s press release notes that Geographies of Relation “masterfully combines …
The Chicanx & Latinx Studies Program proudly shares that Professor Armando Ibarra, former CLS Director, has been appointed by Governor Tony Evers to the Wisconsin Governor’s Council on Migrant Labor as a migrant representative. His term runs from November 26, 2025, through July 1, 2026. The Council brings together employer, migrant, and legislative representatives to …
CLS Director Theresa Delgadillo, who is also a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, published Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas, in September 2024, and since then, the book has earned notable awards and led to significant speaking engagements. In December of 2025, the Modern Language Association awarded the book its sixteenth Prize in United …
Professor Delgadillo delivered the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Lecture at Claremont McKenna College in California in October 2025. Professor Delgadillo’s lecture drew from her recent research in Geographies of Relation and extended this in new directions to consider the work of three twentieth and twenty-first century photographers dedicated to portraying African diaspora communities across the hemisphere. …
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor Theresa Delgadillo, who is also the Director of Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies, was recently interviewed about her latest book, Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the America, published by University of Michigan Press, for the international scholarly books podcast New Books Network. Professor Delgadillo was interviewed about her research by Shodona …
The open access academic journal, Latinx Talk, co-founded and co-edited by Professor Theresa Delgadillo, has been selected as part of the 2025-2028 cohort of the Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) of the Lyrasis network. OACIP mobilizes a national and international consortium of academic and public libraries, academic departments, institutions, research centers, museums, and funding agencies to …
Professor Victor Goldgel-Carballo (Spanish & Portuguese) has developed two exciting new classes, which he will teach next semester. “Introduction to Race in the Americas,” to be taught in English, examines how the experiences of marginalized groups in the U.S. are profoundly intertwined with hemispheric historical processes. In “Decolonial Debates,” to be taught in Spanish, students …
On August 31, Marla Ramírez (Assistant Professor of History and Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies) appeared on WPR’s “University of the Air” to discuss her research on removals of ethnic Mexicans from the United States between the two World Wars with host Norman Gilliland. Between 1921 and 1944, the U.S. expelled nearly one million people of …
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. …
On June 14th, the Board of Curators of the Wisconsin Historical Society gave the 2024 Governor’s Archives Award for Archival Achievement to the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective. This award recognizes a historical records repository that has made an outstanding contribution to the archival profession or a notable achievement of value to the archives community, its …