Ismael García-Colón UConn Anthropology PhD and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, has been awarded the 2020 Frank Bonilla Book Award by the Puerto Rican Studies Association. According to the book prize selection committee, García-Colón’s book, Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on […]
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Instituto Faculty Affiliate César Abadía Featured on UConn Today
In this UConn today article, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights, and Instituto faculty affiliate César Abadía-Barrero studies the integration into human rights concepts and measures of the holistic indigenous world view of “buen vivir” and relates recent mass protests in Colombia to the country’s structural inequalities, lack of educational opportunities, land use policies, […]
Instituto Affiliate Tania Huedo-Medina Publishes on US-Cuba Health Research Collaboration
A collaboration between UConn and seven Cuban institutions looked at the impact of social determinants in the onset of cancer, obesity, HIV, and addiction, which are significant public health problems in both Cuba and the US. They recently published a paper on the fruitful connections and systemic exchanges between both countries in Revista Cubana de Salud […]
Instituto Affiliate Faculty Named to be First Latino Head of the Neag School of Education
Congratulations to Dr. Jason G. Irizarry’s (Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Faculty Associate of El Instituto), who’s the first Latino dean to lead the Neag School. Here’s the news release from UConn Today.
New UConn Study Finds a Range of School Employees Help Indigenous Latinx Immigrant Farmworking Families Access Healthcare
By Oxana Sidorova and Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo (contact rebecca.campbell@uconn.edu) Funded by El Instituto and the Collaboratory for School and Child Heath at UConn, El Instituto graduate student Oxana Sidorova and Curriculum and Instruction Postdoctoral Research Associate Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, along with colleagues in UConn Nursing (Ruth Lucas, Xiaomei Cong) and at the University of Denver (Miriam Valdovinos), […]
Students Contribute to State Latinx History Curriculum Initiative
Contributed by Samuel Martínez Episode 4 of the WHUS podcast series, “Talking Across Activisms,” featured a conversation among Gabriela Ramos-King, Lizzette Pérez, María Mejía-Girón, and Yadiel Rodríguez, all former students in UConn’s Latin American and Latino/a Studies program, about their work helping the creation and implementation of a Latinx Studies 12th grade history curriculum […]
Jesús Ramos-Kittrell Wins AAUP Award
Contributed by Maria Hernandez In his twenty years of teaching, Jesús Ramos-Kittrell charismatically highlights that there is no secret ingredient nor a unique method to teaching students but instead it is important to provide “a space for subjectivity.” Ramos-Kittrell, Assistant Professor in Residence of Music History and Ethnomusicology and Faculty Affiliate of El Instituto, has […]
An Evening with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Contributed by Samuel Martínez On the evening of Wednesday, 7 April, El Instituto, together with the Connecticut Democracy Center at the Old State House (OSH), Hartford, co-hosted a live-streamed conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Ecuadorian-American essayist and creative nonfiction writer, moderated by Fany Hannon, Director of UConn’s Puerto Rican and Latin American Cultural Center. “The […]
Translation Conference Brings Cuba Scholars to UConn On-line Event
Contributed by Jacqueline Loss Over four afternoons between March 2nd and 5th, the symposium “The Translation of Letters and Ideas in Cuba’s Republic” took place virtually at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Sponsored by the Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, the UConn Humanities Institute, an Instituto Seed Grant, the John N. Plank Lecture Series, […]
Two Instituto affiliate faculty win AAUP teaching and service awards
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 […]