Congratulations to Professor Veronica Castillo-Munoz (History) who was invited by the National Museum of the Mexican Revolution and the Casasola Foundation to collaborate on a major exhibit about a Mexican

The LAIS Program would like to congratulate Professor Kai Thaler (Global Studies) who co-authored the article “Statebuilding and indigenous rights implementation: Political incentives, social movement pressure, and autonomy policy in

Dr. Nicole Cerpa Vielma, an Assistant Professor in the Global Studies Department, has recently joined the LAIS Program as an affiliated faculty member. Dr. Cerpa specializes in subordinate financialization in

The Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies (LAIS) invites applications for its Graduate Alumni Research Award for Summer 2024. These awards support innovative scholarship in Latin American and Iberian

The LAIS Program would like to congratulate Professor Javiera Barandiaran (Global Studies), for having won a residency fellowship for March 2024 at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center to work on

Congratulations to Professor Jaime Alves (Black Studies) who received the Burdick Scholar Fellowship as a part of UC Santa Barbara’s Area Global Initiative for 2024-2025. He is now leading a

Congratulations to Professor Carlos Morton (Theater and Dance) who was honored with Texas State’s Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration Distinguished Achievement Award of 2023 for his dedication to and sustained

Dr. Giovanni Batz, an Assistant Professor in the Chicano/a Studies department, recently joined the LAIS Program as an affiliated faculty member. He specializes in Maya social movements and resistance, extractivist

Congratulations to Professor Alicia Boswell (History of Art and Architecture), who won a one-year fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC, a Harvard-affiliated research institute, in the Pre-Columbian area of