CLS Director Theresa Delgadillo has recently published Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas with the University of Michigan Press. The book crosses disciplinary and canonical borders to investigate the interrelationships of African-descended Latinx …
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CLS alumna Carmen Raya (’24) Completes International Internship
Carmen Raya, a member of the first class of Chican@ & Latin@ Studies majors to graduate from the UW-Madison, completed an internship in Chile this past summer. She interned with the Fulbright Commission in Chile …
Latinx History Collective Wins Archival Achievement Award
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 …
Congratulations to the 2024 Somos Professional Development Recipients!
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to announce that Danitza Rodríguez-Jiménez and Mariela Sida have won the 2024 Somos Student Professional Development Awards, while advisor Rachelle Eilers has won the 2024 Somos Faculty and …
Congratulations to the 2024 Jesus Salas Activist Scholar!
The CLS Program is delighted to announce that senior Yanci Almonte Vargas has won this year’s Jesús Salas Academic Activist Scholarship. A Latinx student of African ancestry, born and raised by a Black mother in …
Students Recognize CLS TA Castillo as ‘Honored Instructor’ for Fall 2023
Each year, UW–Madison students living in University Housing may recognize outstanding educators via the Honored Instructor program. Through this program, University Housing takes nominations from students who want to honor instructors who challenge and inspire …
History Collective Researchers Win Implementation Grant
After two years of a successful NHPRC-Mellon planning grant, faculty affiliated with the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program, in partnership with the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective (WLHC), the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), and other collaborators, have secured continued funding from …
Marla Ramírez wins Article Award from the Oral History Association
Marla Ramírez’s essay “Gendered Banishment: Rewriting Mexican Repatriation through a Transgenerational Oral History Methodology” has won the Article Award from the Oral History Association, the principal membership organization for people committed to the value of …
81 students graduate with the CLS Certificate
On May 13, 2023 in Ingraham B10, the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program recognized eighty one students from a variety of majors who are graduating with our Program’s Certificate, another record-breaking class. Assistant Dean Emerita …
Kate Vieira Wins 2023 Kay W. Levin Award for Short Nonfiction
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. …