College of Letters & Science
Every May, the College of Letters and Science publishes inspiring stories about research and other achievements by its faculty and students in a supplement to the Wisconsin State Journal called “Fueling Discovery.” This year’s issue highlighted the work of CLS Director Theresa Delgadillo and Program faculty member Alfonso Morales. The feature on Prof. Delgadillo included …
CLS Core faculty member Revel Sims’ teaching was featured in a recent article by the College of Letters and Science’s Instructional Design Collaborative on community-based learning in UW-Madison classrooms. Prof. Sims and his students partnered with Madison’s Tenant Resource Center to quantify and map evictions in Dane County, interviewing Spanish-speaking residents of the county about …
CLS Program faculty member Lola Loustaunau published a paper on wildcat strikes in 2020 by Latina apple pickers in Washington state, and she presented the results from the Wisconsin Farmworker Coalition’s community-driven survey project on April 1st. The Washington study examined the ways that the COVID-19 crisis moved the apple workers to strike after a …
CLS affiliate faculty member Denia Garcia has recently published an article in the journal Poverty and Public Policy examining the way social capital influences the decisions poor residents of U.S. cities to seek such public benefits as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF). Drawing on data from the Future …
CLS Program Faculty member Christopher Saldaña was honored this semester with a Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Education. The fellowship supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. In addition to a monetary award, the fellowship will offer Prof. Saldaña to participate in professional development retreats with distinguished education …
Dr. Nidia Bañuelos and her colleagues from the School of Education, Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci and Dr. Ross Benbow, have created a quantitative measure of Community Cultural Wealth (Yosso, 2005) that can be included in student surveys and assessments. Instead of focusing on the problems faced by undergraduates of color, the research seeks to understand what strengths …
CLS affiliate faculty member Alfonso Morales shared his expertise on urban markets with the online news outlet Madison365 late this semester, providing perspective on the approaching debut of the Madison Public Market at 202 North First Street. A much-awaited addition to the commercial landscape in Madison, the Public Market is a city-sponsored nonprofit intended to create …
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 …
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 the National Archives to support the implementation phase of a 10-year project titled ¡Presente!: Documenting Latinx History in Wisconsin. Led by Profs. Almita …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to announce that Dr. Benjamin Márquez and junior Katheryn Saavedra-Ballesteros are the winners of the 2022 Somos Faculty and Student Development Awards. Dr. Márquez is a Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on Mexican American politics and the politics of race and ethnicity in the United …