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 […]
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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, […]
“Faces, Masks, Bodies: Contemporary Cuban Writing, Art, and Performance”
Organized by Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Jacqueline Loss, and Inileidys Hernández. See details below for upcoming events and to register for online attendance. UConn Co-Sponsors: UConn Humanities Institute; El Instituto; Eyzaguirre; ELIN Fire Fund; Spanish (Literatures, Cultures, & Languages); Journalism; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Africana Studies; Art and Art History; Arts and Human Rights Research […]
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 […]
Instituto Affiliate Scott Wallace Publishes Nat Geo Article about Murders in the Amazon
The article titled, “I knew the men murdered in the Amazon—and their alleged killer,” can be found on the National Geographic website.
New Instituto MA student publishes demographic and human development studies
Luis Palomino, in-coming student in the MA in International Studies with a concentration in Latina/o and Latin American Studies, is co-author of two recent scholarly publications in Perú. One article, “Determinantes de la evolución del número de casos y muertes por COVID-19 en el Perú: movilidad, geografía y desarrollo económico,” tracks changes over time in […]
The Political Empowerment of Women in Colombia
Congratulation to Laura Bedoya in graduating and pursuing her education! Read her article today on the Harvard website, titled “The Political Empowerment of Women in Colombia: Towards Gender Equality.”
Professor Charles Venator-Santiago named to the national Scholarly Advising Committee of the National Museum of the American Latino
Professor Venator joins 17 other leading scholars of the Latino experience on the inaugural Scholarly Advising Committee of the National Museum of the American Latino . You can read further news on the CT public website.
Ballard Exhibit Highlights Depth of Puerto Rican Puppetry to Educate, Entertain, Advocate
The Ballard exhibit highlights depth of Puerto Rican Puppetry, you can read more through UConn Today.
El Instituto MA Student Co-authors Paper on Immigrants’ School Adjustment
UConn alum Oxana Sidorova and Neag faculty member Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo published a paper, in the American Education Research Association’s Open Forum journal, based on their research on health access assistance provided by school employees to Mexican and indigenous Guatemalan families.