College of Letters & Science
CLS professor and former director Armando Ibarra will be among those honored when Community Shares of Wisconsin celebrates its 50th anniversary on September 23rd. Prof. Ibarra, whose home department is the School for Workers, was nominated by Voces de la Frontera for the Sally Sunde Family Advocate Award. The award is given every year to …
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 Center for DREAMers, administered through the Law School. The Center will serve the approximately 11,000 people considered “DREAMers” in Wisconsin. …
The CLS Program is delighted to congratulate Priscilla Contreras, this year’s recipient of the Jesus Salas Academic Activist Scholarship. This award is conferred annually on a Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program Undergraduate Certificate student who has excelled academically and made outstanding service contributions to the Chican@ and Latin@ Community. Administered by the CLS Program, the …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Somos Professional Development Awards for students and faculty. Spring 2021 marks the second round of competitions, and the Program is gratified by student and faculty interest. Our student award winner is graduating Senior Elizandra Sandoval. Elizandra is a first-generation Mexican-American …
Political Science doctoral candidate Kennia Coronado has won an Early Excellence Award for her fine work with POLI SCI/CHICLA 231, “Politics in Multi-Cultural Societies,” taught by CLS affiliate professor Benjamin Márquez. The Early Excellence Award recognizes outstanding and inspirational performance by teaching assistants with fewer than four semesters of experience in the classroom. The University …
Folks in the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program were delighted to learn that one of our own, Prof. Rubén Medina (Spanish & Portuguese/CLS), has received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Medina is one of thirteen faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to …
In April, 2021, Northwestern University Press will release CLS affiliate professor Paola Hernández’s book Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives, which examines twenty-first-century documentary theater in Latin America, focusing on important plays by the Argentine director Vivi Tellas, the Argentine playwright and director Lola Arias, the Mexican theater collective Teatro Línea de …
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 Research Association. The award recognizes books written in the last five years that advance knowledge about literacy, display inquiry into …
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 Honored Instructor program. Kristina Fullerton-Rico is a doctoral student in Sociology and has taught CHICLA 201 (“Introduction to Chican@ & …
CLS Certificate student Carolina Mora-Hurtado has received the 2020 Paul R. Ebling Pre-Medicine Scholarship, which recognizes academic excellence and service to the community. Carolina will begin medical studies at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health this Fall. Within the CLS familia, we’re always pleased to see one of our students doing well and …