Congratulations to Professor Antonio Cortijo Ocaña (Spanish and Portuguese) who published Modernidad y Sociedad Civil: La retórica de Boncompagno da Signa y el nacimiento de la sociedad civil as part

The Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies (LAIS) is pleased to announce its new LAIS graduate affiliates initiative. This new affiliate program will connect graduate students enrolled in departments

Reginald Daniel, Professor in the Sociology department and a LAIS Faculty Affiliate, was a dear member of the LAIS community. Passionate and generous as a mentor and colleague, he was

In our second Tertulia of the year, on Friday December 1st, we welcomed Dr. Giovanni Batz an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at UCSB, specializing in extractivist

Our first tertulia & lunch of the year took place on October 20 and featured Lydia Fossa, an independent scholar specialized in Andean colonial and indigenous history and literatures. Dr.

LAIS congratulates Prof. André Corrêa De Sá on the publication of his book, Ecofagias. The book examines some of the narratives through which societies in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa and

Professor Cecilia Méndez has been appointed as Director of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Méndez is a Professor of History and