UConn Anthropology PhD and University of Rhode Island Associate Professor of Anthropology Hilda Lloréns was awarded the LASA Puerto Rico section’s 2020 Blanca G. Silvestrini Prize for the article that she co-authored with Maritza Stanchich (U Puerto Rico Rio Piedras) “Water is life, but the colony is a necropolis: Environmental terrains of struggle in Puerto […]
Month: April 2020
Professor Scott Wallace reports on spread of COVID-19 among Indigenous People
UConn Journalism, Scott Wallace, reports on the spread of COVID-19 as it spreads among the Indigenous people in the Amazon, out today in National Geographic. Click Below: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/first-coronavirus-deaths-indigenous-communities-amazon/
A Letter to the UConn Community (COVID-19)
Please Click below: Cultural Centers and Institutes release statement of concern about upsurge in xenophobia during the COVID-19 crisis Any questions or concerns about El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies please contact our program assistant Kimberly Vasquez at kimberly.vasquez@uconn.edu or submit any general questions to elinstituto@uconn.edu.