Tag: History

A History Lesson from Bad Bunny and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo

Reggaetón songs introducing millions to Puerto Rican history? A UW–Madison professor collaborating with an internationally recognized popular music star?  Yes, and yes!  Jorell Meléndez Badillo, a CLS affiliate faculty member in the History Department, recently created seventeen brief Spanish-language synopses of important moments in the island’s history from 1508 to the present that now accompany …

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 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 community researchers all over the state. Under the leadership of CLS Emerita Andrea-Teresa “Tess” Arenas, the group will to “retro-fit” …