Tasha Robles has recently been awarded the “University Advisor of the Year” award by the Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha.

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Ann Abbott recently published a piece in the Chicago Tribune op-ed section.

What do tangible objects such as textiles, silverwork, maps, books, jewelry, paintings, clothing, furniture, kitchen utensils, and food tell us about the history and c

In this course, we will study representations of animals in Latin American culture and examine why writers and artists thought with animals to work through human questions of gender, race, an

As one of the most divisive issues of our time, immigration has quickly become a major topic of focus in literature, film, and journalism.

Learn about social entrepreneurship and non-profit programming that is linguistically and culturally appropriate—and gain pre-professional workplace experience.

In class and off campus, learn from our local Latino community while working in a multilingual, professional setting. This is a service learning course

This course will offer a historical perspective of the way ecology, natural disasters, and human actions are intrinsically intertwined.

This course examines how both emigration and immigration have been portrayed in Spanish literature and in other cultural manifestations since 1900 to the present.

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Eric Calderwood (affiliated faculty, Department of Comparative and World Literatures) has been selected as a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professor Scholar for the College of LAS for 2017

This course will critically consider the construction of a new Latin American international cinema from a Cultural Studies approach, investigating how it fulfills or disrupts desires for a borderle

Our alumnus Iker González-Allende has been awarded a Leland and Dorothy Olson Professorship at the University of Nebraska.

Alumnus Pamela Cappas-Toro has been named a finalist for the national