Neag Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership, Milagros Castillo-Montoya, will be honored with a 2021 AAUP Service Excellence award, and Assistant Professor-in-Residence Jesús Ramos-Kittrell will receive a 2021 AAUP Teaching Innovation award. A virtual ZOOM ceremony is planned on Wednesday, April 28th, at 1:00 pm. Any and all who wish to attend are welcome. Please RSVP […]
Author: Vasquez, Kimberly
El Instituto and CT Democracy Center co-host Women’s History Month roundtable on Latina History
Read the UConn Daily News story, and see the event videorecording: Siempre Presentes!
Raising Her Voice to Amplify Other Voices
Read this UConn Magazine feature on Instituto alumna Pauline Batista (MA 2016).
UndocuPeer: Dismantling Barriers within Higher Ed
The UndocuPeer training is a two-hour virtual interactive program facilitated by currently and formerly undocumented students that focuses on increasing educators, counselors, and administrators’ knowledge and skills for supporting undocumented students and advocating for institutional changes to ensure access, safety, and belonging for all students regardless of immigration status. Developed by undocumented students, trainers provide […]
Instituto Affiliate Linda Halgunseth Named Director of Academic Affairs at UCONN-Hartford
Read the UConn Today article.
La Colectiva Virtual Conversation
Contributed by Alonso Velásquez El Instituto graduate students Nina Vásquez and Génesis Carela, together with UConn Political Science doctoral student Luis Beltrán-Alvarez and University of Oregon Philosophy doctoral student Rosa O’Connor-Acevedo, organized a virtual event on December 15, 2020, “Whose Heritage? What Heritage? Caribbean Black and Decolonial Feminist Confrontations against White and Heteropatriarchal Supremacies.” This […]
El Instituto MA Student Researches Indigenous Language Survival in Colombian Amazon
Contributed by Oxana Sidorova As a fulfilment for my master’s thesis requirement in Latina/o and Latin American Studies, I am doing a research on indigenous language maintenance and the importance of language for cultural identity among the Coreguaje people of Colombia’s Amazonas region.[1] Additionally, I am collaborating with Coreguaje people in examining access to higher […]
Mark Healey Wins SCHARP Award
Contributed by Alonso Velásquez Professor Mark Healey, Faculty Affiliate of El Instituto and the History Department’s Head, has been awarded a $50,000 Scholarship and Collaboration in Humanities and Arts Research (SCHARP) Breakthrough Award. The co-PI on the award is Tom Scheinfeldt, Professor of Digital Media and Design. According to the submitted proposal, the goal is […]
Instituto MA Student Researches Takeover Program in Providence Schools
Contributed by Genesis Carela My research explores the Providence Public School District (PPSD) takeover in Rhode Island. Takeovers are an extreme version of accountability policies which impose a new governance structure with the aim of remedying financial mismanagement of school districts and improving academic outcomes for students. Takeovers occur when the mayor or governor strips […]
“Rise of the Latinx Vote”
Contributed by Alonso Velásquez On October 7, 2020, El Instituto co-sponsored a roundtable discussion “Rise of the Latinx Vote,” with the Connecticut Democracy Center (Old State House). This virtual event was co-organized by CDC events organizer, Mariana García, and El Instituto’s Director, Samuel Martínez. Moderated by UConn Political Science/El Instituto Associate Professor Charles Venator, the […]