The 2020 Robert G. Mead Fellowship as UConn’s most outstanding first-year Latin Americanist graduate student has been awarded to Randy Torres, a student in El Instituto’s Master’s program in Latina/o and Latin American Studies. This award was created in memory of Professor Robert G Mead, Jr, the founder of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at […]
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Can inclusive programs reduce labor market discrimination?
Contribution by Jorge M. Agüero In Latin America, the poor are heavily underrepresented in their access to higher education. Less than ten percent of adolescents from low-income families are enrolled in college, while for their most affluent counterparts, the enrollment rate is close to 70%. To address these disparities, many countries in the region […]
Overmyer-Velázquez to Publish Updated Translation of Beyond La Frontera
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Professor in History and El Instituto and Director of UConn’s Hartford regional campus, is completing a revised and expanded version of his book Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexico-US Migration (Oxford UP, 2011) for Spanish translation with the Editoriales del Colegio de San Luis and Colegio de la Frontera del Norte. Among […]
Instituto Professor Rodolfo Fernández interviewed on Identidad Latina
El Instituto Assistant Professor in Residence Rodolfo Fernández talks about his transition to on-line teaching during UCONN’s COVID classroom shutdown in this Spanish-language Identidad Latina interview with José Alonso Velásquez.
UConn Alumna Hilda Lloréns Wins LASA Silvestrini Prize
UConn Anthropology PhD and University of Rhode Island Associate Professor of Anthropology Hilda Lloréns was awarded the LASA Puerto Rico section’s 2020 Blanca G. Silvestrini Prize for the article that she co-authored with Maritza Stanchich (U Puerto Rico Rio Piedras) “Water is life, but the colony is a necropolis: Environmental terrains of struggle in Puerto […]
Professor Scott Wallace reports on spread of COVID-19 among Indigenous People
UConn Journalism, Scott Wallace, reports on the spread of COVID-19 as it spreads among the Indigenous people in the Amazon, out today in National Geographic website.
A Letter to the UConn Community (COVID-19)
Please click below for the letter institutes at UConn wrote to the community during COVID: Cultural Centers and Institutes release statement of concern about upsurge in xenophobia during the COVID-19 crisis Any questions or concerns about El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies please contact our general inbox elinstituto@uconn.edu.
La Colectiva Feminista Comes to UConn!
Contributed by Nina Vázquez La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción of Puerto Rico will be visiting El Instituto from March 23rd through March 27th 2020. El Instituto will be hosting a series of events with la Colectiva’s leaders, Zoan Tanís Dávila Roldán and Shariana Ferrer-Núñez. The purpose of these events is to promote community outreach and […]
Music Professor Jesús Ramos-Kittrell Publishes Book on Global Mexicanidades
Contributed by Samuel Martínez The contributory volume, Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization, edited by Music Assistant Professor in Residence and El Instituto Affiliate faculty member, Jesús Ramos-Kittrell, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in December 2019. El Instituto is proudly included among the UConn units whose co-sponsorship made it possible for Dr. Ramos […]
Costa Rica Education Abroad: Why it’s Worth the Trip
By Anne Gebelein Sixteen students recently returned from 3 weeks in Costa Rica where they had an intensive, 6-credit experience studying human rights in Central America. Students had the opportunity to meet with experts to discuss migration, refugees, gender relations, and interpersonal and state violence. They visited the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, a community […]