Contributed by Charles R. Venator-Santiago. Congratulations to Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann on her 2023-24 academic year Humanities Institute fellowship! Katerina, an Associate Professor of Spanish Studies and past director of El Instituto (2022-2023), will bring a project entitled “Aimé Césaire and His Cuban Comrades in Art.” Katerina writes that the project “examines the relationships of solidarity and […]
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New Faculty Position to Support El Instituto’s Graduate Students
Contributed by Rodolfo Fernandez. In my five years teaching at UConn, I have had the opportunity to teach well over a thousand students. I have no doubt that it would not be possible to teach so many people without the help of graduate research and teaching assistants. I know how invaluable the labor and intellectual […]
Welcome our Newest Joint Faculty
Contributed by Lorena Solis. A Path to Social Justice I am an assistant professor of industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology at the Department of Psychology and a core faculty member at El Instituto. My research focuses on understanding the manifestation of inequality in organizations and institutions. Specifically, I study inequality within the context of workforce diversity. I […]
The Black Arrow: Poetic reflections on the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo
Contributed by Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann. The Black Arrow, a book of poems reflecting on the U.S. naval based in Guantánamo by José Ramón Sánchez Leyva that I translated with Esther Whitfield was recently released by Linkgua Ediciones. José Ramón Sánchez ventures into territory that few Cuban writers have approached: the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, […]
Outstanding Senior Women Academic Achievement Awardee: Heidi Pineda
Contributed by Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann and Anne Gebelein. Congratulations to Heidi Pineda, senior in Latino & Latin American Studies, who has won the Outstanding Senior Women Academic Achievement Award. The dean’s office let us know that competition for this honor was exceptionally high, as they received nominations from across all 38 units in the College […]
ELIN Pre-doctoral Awardee: Constance Holden
Contributed by Constance Holden My dissertation examines gender, Blackness, and visual culture in modern Argentina. As my research links popular representations of Blackness to how African-descended women charted their own destinies, I became curious about the specific experiences of African-descended women scholars of Latin America. It was at this juncture that I learned about Black […]
The Pandemic Journaling Project in Latin America, and beyond
Contributed by Sarah Willen & Heather Wurtz Now is a crucial moment to reflect on our experiences of COVID-19 over the past three years and discuss lessons that we, as a global society, can learn as we strive for a better future. These are central objectives of the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) — a combined […]
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, […]
Disconnections and Connections: Human Rights Versus Democracy; from Principles Toward Policies; National Within International Law
Contributed by Ángel R. Oquendo Through Thin and Thick: From Human-Rights Principles to Politics Across the Americas and Beyond (Cambridge University Press) (2022) Hopefully, this note will move you, readers of La Voz, to a conversation with me and among yourselves. It will react against an anecdote about Spanish writer Francisco Umbral. A television show […]
Update on the Puerto Rican Studies Initiative for Community Engagement and Public Policy
Contributed by Charles R. Venator-Santiago The Puerto Rican Studies Initiative for Community Engagement and Public Policy (PRSI) is a research initiative seeking to document and support Puerto Ricans’ vital economic, intellectual, and cultural contributions to Connecticut and to provide research-based support for the development of public policies addressing the needs of Puerto Ricans in the State […]