Marla A. Ramírez’s Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women who Endured Repatriation (Harvard University Press, 2025) continues to reach new audiences and win prestigious awards. Recently, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) recognized …
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Marla Ramírez’s Publishes “Banished Citizens,” Receives Bogue Award
For CLS faculty member Marla Ramírez’s, Fall 2025 saw the publication of her highly successful first book and a notable research award from the Department of History. Her book Banished Citizens: A History of the …
Marla Ramírez discusses Depression-Era Mass Removals with WPR
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 …
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 …
CLS Faculty Publish Special Journal Issue on Intersectional Research Methodologies
This Fall saw the publication of “Intersectional Methodological Approaches: Research movidas to Center Latino/Latina/Latinx Voices,” a special issue of the journal Latino Studies edited by Marla Ramírez Tahuado (CLS/History) and Sarah Rios (Community and Environmental Sociology). …
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 …
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 …
CLS Welcomes New Faculty
As a new semester begins, The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to welcome our newest faculty colleagues to campus. If you’re interested in migration, borders, and citizenship, you’ll want to get to know …