El Instituto’s Associate Director and Associate Professor-in-Residence Anne Gebelein has been assisting the State Education Resource Center (SERC) in the development of a new high school course on African-American, Latino and Puerto Rican Studies. This new curricular mandate was passed by the Connecticut State Legislature in 2019; it requires all high schools to offer African-American […]

By Emma Amador  During the 2019-2020 academic year I was a Faculty Fellow at the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut (UCHI). The fellowship provides a year of funding to a cohort of fellows each year that includes UConn faculty and doctoral students, as well as external faculty in residence. It also provides a […]

By Samuel Martínez Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola but are divided by a history of mutual conflict. It is often heard that the two countries have been adversaries since 1844, when the Dominicans won their independence from Haiti rather than a European colonizer (Haiti having brought both sides of […]

Contributed by Rodolfo Fernandez El Instituto’s Assistant Professor in Residence Rodolfo Fernández finished a complete draft of a new book manuscript, titled Mexico’s Industrial Revolutions: Capitalism and the State in Monterrey, 1600-1915. This book is the culmination of a decade of work, begun while Fernández was a doctoral student in History at Georgetown University.  The […]

By Victoria Almodóvar Over the past two years I have taken on the role of Graduate Assistant for UConn’s Center for Fraternity and Sorority Development and Teaching Assistant for El Instituto. These experiences, as well as my own identities as a Latina and a sorority member, sparked my interest in doing what I can to […]

The 2020 Robert G. Mead Fellowship as UConn’s most outstanding first-year Latin Americanist graduate student has been awarded to Randy Torres, a student in El Instituto’s Master’s program in Latina/o and Latin American Studies. This award was created in memory of Professor Robert G Mead, Jr, the founder of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at […]

  Contribution by Jorge M. Agüero In Latin America, the poor are heavily underrepresented in their access to higher education. Less than ten percent of adolescents from low-income families are enrolled in college, while for their most affluent counterparts, the enrollment rate is close to 70%. To address these disparities, many countries in the region […]

Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Professor in History and El Instituto and Director of UConn’s Hartford regional campus, is completing a revised and expanded version of his book Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexico-US Migration (Oxford UP, 2011) for Spanish translation with the Editoriales del Colegio de San Luis and Colegio de la Frontera del Norte. Among […]