Author Esmeralda Santiago, and Faculty Interim Director of El Instituto, Dr. Charles Venator-Santiago, was recently featured on the podcast Where we Live, produced by Connecticut Public Radio. In the podcast, they talk about Esmeralda Santiago’s new book Las Madres, which chronicles five women as they survive and are shaped by their experiences by Hurricane Maria […]
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Puerto Rican Leaders, Legislators Emphasize Need for Civic Engagement, Cultural Activities, Social Justice
Professor Charles Rob Venator-Santiago was part of the discussion at the Legislative Office Building hosted by the General Assembly’s Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity & Opportunity.
Television Dramas and the Global Village (2023) Paperback Edition
Television Dramas and the Global Village: Storytelling through Race and Gender Paperback – April 3, 2023 We are delighted about the affordable 2023 paperback edition of this global television book. It is now more ideal for university course adoption and faculty acquisition. This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, […]
ELIN Core Faculty Member Receives Funding For Inclusive Research Initiatives
El Instituto’s core faculty member, Emma Amador, receives JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Research initiative funding for research project: Bright Futures: Antonia Pantoja and the Practice of Ethnic Studies in US History. Read more in UConn Today article.
UConn Stamford Professor, Human Rights Filmmaker Oscar Guerra filming 2nd Documentary
Emmy Award-Winning UConn Professor Takes on Zero Tolerance, Family Separation with Second PBS Frontline Documentary You can read more in the article from UConn Today.
State turns to CLAS faculty for expertise on Black and Latino history
In 2020, Connecticut became the first state in the nation to require all high schools to offer a course on Black, Puerto Rican, and Latino studies. Congratulations to CLAS faculty in transforming Connecticut K-12 Curricula through The Black and Latino History Project (BLHP): Fiona Vernal Anne Gebelein Jason Oliver Chang Avinoam Patt Noga Shemer […]
UConn Anthropology Alumna’s Book Wins Two Prizes
UConn Anthropology PhD and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rhode Island, Hilda Lloréns’ latest book, Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice has recently won two awards: The Gregory Bateson Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology And the Frank Bonilla Book Award from the Puerto Rican Studies Association Congratulations, […]
Upcoming Spring 2023 Course Offerings
Below is our pamphlet for our Spring 2023 courses.
“Faces, Masks, Bodies: Contemporary Cuban Writing, Art, and Performance”
Organized by Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Jacqueline Loss, and Inileidys Hernández. See form below for upcoming events and to register for online attendance. For more information contact Jacqueline Loss.
GLC Receives CT Humanities Award
By Yale’s newsletter July 22, 2022 New Haven, Connecticut – The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University has been award a $30,000 grant from Connecticut Humanities to enable them to develop a series of working groups for Connecticut teachers to study and develop curriculum and resources on Black and Latino […]