Dr. Fiona Vernal’s research on Connecticut’s West Indian immigration history has been featured on the Uconn Today page. Dr. Vernal’s research discusses– “Guest workers arrived in America through bilateral labor agreements between British West Indian colonies and the United States, says Vernal, whose family origins are in Jamaica. They were men who replaced the thousands of […]

Dr. Maria Martinez, Assistant Vice Provost for Student Success, will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut Association of Latinos in Higher Education (CALAHE) on Friday, November 16, at the Association’s annual meeting at Goodwin College. This is CALAHE’s highest honor, recognizing those individuals who have made significant contributions to the educational and […]

Contributed by Victoria Almodóvar   Students, friends, and faculty gathered in the UConn Puerto Rican and Latin American Cultural Center community room on October 22nd to get a preview of Dr. Daisy Verduzco Reyes’ book, Learning to Be Latino, a book she just published with Rutgers University Press. Reyes, an Assistant Professor with a joint […]

Contributed by Julia Marchese Last Tribes of the Amazon: Protecting Earth’s Most Threatened People can be found on the National Geographic website.  Photographs by Charlie Hamilton James / National Geographic On September 20th, 2018, Professor Scott Wallace (UConn, Journalism) gave a talk at El Instituto titled, Speaking for Those Who Cannot Speak for Themselves: The […]

July 17, 2018 – from Combined Reports – UConn Communications About 13,000 residents of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands who arrived in Connecticut in the aftermath of the hurricanes Maria and Irma continue to struggle with obtaining basic needs including adequate housing, food, medical care, and jobs, according to a survey by UConn researchers for […]

As leaders of centers, institutes, and programs at the University of Connecticut dedicated to advancing critical understanding of social justice and human rights, we are fully committed to the aim, outlined in the university’s mission, of helping students grow intellectually and become contributing members of society. We pursue this work with full consciousness that many […]

In an online newspaper called The Hill, co-editors Charles R. Venator-Santiago and Edwin Melendez wrote an article titled “100 Years of Puerto Ricans’ U.S. Citizenship and the Political Status.”

In UConn Today, you will find the article titled “Op-ed: Are Puerto Ricans Really American Citizens?” written by Professor Charles R. Venator-Santiago.

We, members of the core faculty and affiliate advisory board members of UConn’s El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, & Latin American Studies, write to express our commitment to advocating for the rights and freedoms of our students and co-workers at the university and fostering a welcoming intellectual community of critically engaged scholars. President Trump’s administration […]

Puerto Rico and the origins of the U.S. Global Empire: The Disembodied Shadow Drawing on a postcolonial legal history of the United States’ territorial expansionism, this book provides an analysis of the foundations of its global empire. Charles R. Venator-Santiago argues that the United States has developed three traditions of territorial expansionism with corresponding constitutional […]