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- The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce that Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada has been appointed as a National Humanities Center Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. Chosen from 492 applicants, Professor Velásquez Estrada is part of the cohort of the 47th class of 31 fellows selected this year. The National... Read full story Professor Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada appointed as a 2024-25 National Humanities Center Fellow
- The Department of Latina/Latino studies is pleased to announce that Professor Nic Flores was recently accepted to participate in three year Knowledge of AIDS (KOA) Research Collaboration Network. The KOA is a Research Community Development project supported by a collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation and Science and Technology Studies Program. The KOA seeks to form scholarly community for social scientific, humanistic, and... Read full story Professor Nic Flores to participate in Knowledge of AIDS Research Collaboration Network
- The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Mirelsie Velázquez and Lydia Socorro Alvarez, a LLS 100 TA and LLS undergraduate alumna, have each been awarded the Legacía Award for La Casa Cultural Latina’s 50th Anniversary. The Legacía Award is a special recognition awarded to 50 outstanding individuals who have shaped the legacy of La Casa and our Latina/o/x/e communities over the past 50 years... Read full story Professor Mirelsie Velázquez and Lydia Socorro Alvarez awarded Legacía Award for La Casa Cultural Latina’s 50th Anniversary
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Alumni spotlight: Samantha M. Contreras, ’19 – Associate, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Samantha M. Contreras is an Illinois native, having grown up in Kankakee, Illinois, about an hour north of Urbana-Champaign. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts & Sciences in the department of Latina/Latino Studies with high distinction and Communications. For her Senior Honor’s Thesis, she explored the effects of an ICE Detention Center in her hometown in a paper titled, “So Many Arms of the State”: Presence of an ICE Detention Center in a Midwestern Town and Latina/o Sense of Well-being. After completing her bachelor’s degree, she went on to earn her Juris Doctorate at...