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Words from our New Director As the new Director of our Latin American and Latino Studies Program I am delighted to share with you our first program newsletter. We would like to invite you to learn more about our students, faculty and alumni, as well as our program’s mission, scholarship, curriculum and community involvement. Our main objective is to provide students a unique, in-depth and interdisciplinary education that combines the study of Latin America and Latino communities. Students work directly with faculty who engage in research that studies pressing cultural, social, economic and political issues and processes that shape and are shaped by the lives of Latin Americans and Latin@s in the US. Our faculty’s research interests are broad, ranging from the representation of nation, race, gender and labor in film, colonial political discourse and social resistance, social structures and religious rituals among the Maya, and rural development and ecology in Mexico, to Latina reproductive rights, youth activism, transnational Cuban migration, globalization and labor strategies of women in Brazil, Mexican hometown associations, and local, national and global immigrant rights struggles. Our curriculum brings together scholarship from the humanities and social sciences to provide students with a broad exposure to cutting-edge questions of race, nationality, gender, migration, social movements, civic engagement, globalization, precarity and inequality. I would like to thank former director Nena Torres for her arduous work in developing LALS in new directions. Among her initiatives are the creation and implementation of our Master’s Program (now in its third year); the spearheading of our graduate internship program; the affiliation with the Inter-University Program for Latino Research and the subsequent Siglo XXI Conference at
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UIC; and the support and sponsorship of a wide and rich range of programs, research initiatives and events in transnationalism, music, migration, civic engagement, and human rights among others. In the years ahead I hope to help our program expand opportunities for students through new initiatives. These include creating a LALS study-abroad summer program in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico; developing a scholarship fund to help fund tuition, books, study abroad, and research-related travel; and working with other campus units to help UIC become a Hispanic-serving institution and apply for federal development grants. We also plan to reconnect with LALS alumni and host our 40th anniversary event next year, strengthening connections among faculty, students, alumni and friends of LALS. Additionally, we are conducting an extensive curriculum revision and recruiting more majors. Finally, we have initiated two programming initiatives, graduate student brown bag lectures, and Spring semester themes. In Spring 2014 our theme will be precarity. Throughout the term we will explore the connections between precarity and labor, migration, gender and sexuality, and environmental issues. Amalia Pallares
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Featured Faculty
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New Director
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Featured Alumnus
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Alumni News
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Faculty News
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Opportunities
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IUPLR
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LALS Events
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A Bulletin of the Latin American and Latino
Featured Faculty Member-Visiting Assistant Professor Alex E. Chavez
Alex E. Chávez
My ethnographic research on huapango arribeño—a vernacular string-music from the states of Guanajuato, Querétaro, and San Luís Potosí, Mexico—has recently expanded into the realm of public anthropology. In collaboration with Daniel Sheehy—director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage—I am presently serving as lead consultant for a Smithsonian Folkways recording of huapango arribeño for inclusion in the world-renowned Tradiciones music series, bringing an anthropological perspective on this music to a broader audience. My involvement in this project dovetails with work on my book manuscript, Companions of the Calling: A Cultural Poetics of Huapango and Migrant Life Across Transnational Mexico , the first extended ethnographic study of huapango arribeño to be written. Suffused with the experiences of music practitioners who are situated firmly within the communities for which they perform in Mexico and the United States, Companions of the Calling reveals how huapango arribeño convenes sites for the suturing of subjectivities en route. Specifically, I examine
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how its elaborate musico-poetic expression dynamically shifts alongside changing politics and ways of living as a means of connecting lives across the US-Mexico border formation. Given my relationships within the huapango world and expertise on the topic, I actively recruited Guillermo Velázquez y Los Leones de la Sierra de Xichú for the recording, with whom I recently travelled to both Querétaro and Guanajuato to conduct pre -production work. A well-known ensemble, Velázquez and Los Leones have performed across Mexico and the world, carrying this music to a wider audience, and as part of their artistic efforts, they have consistently spoken to the issue of U.S.–Mexico migration through their music. A critical voice for the people of the region, they are poised to provide an innovative and highly virtuosic contribution to the vastly respected and heard platform of the Smithsonian’s Tradiciones series. The recording is scheduled to take place in early 2014 and a release date will follow.
Alex E. Chávez with Guillermo Velázquez in Xichú, Guanajuato
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Introducing Our New Director of Undergraduate Studies: Xóchitl Bada
Xóchitl Bada
I was appointed as the new DUS in the summer of 2013. I joined the program in Latin American and Latino Studies as an assistant professor in the fall of 2008. In the past few months, I have been busy selecting the artwork for my upcoming book on Mexican hometown associations. I look forward to an exciting academic year. My new research project focuses on transnational labor advocacy. I am studying consular strategies to defend immigrant worker rights across several cities in the United States. This fall, I am teaching two courses, Introduction to Latino Urban Issues (LALS 103) and Latin American Immigration to the United States (LALS 433). I was born in Puebla and grew up in Veracruz, Mexico. I enjoy living in Chicago´s Hyde Park neighborhood with my husband Claudio and my daughter Macarena. I look forward to learning more about our students. In the spring of 2014, we will be implementing changes to the curriculum to fulfill the expectations of all those who take our interdisciplinary courses in LALS. If you have any ideas for new courses or topics you would like us to add to our curriculum, please come and visit. You can find me at University Hall, suite 1519. I am in the process of revising our curriculum and we expect to add new courses and modify some of our current offerings to better serve the needs and interests of our majors and minors. We recently completed a survey of the students we serve and we will analyze the results in our next curriculum committee meeting. We have plans to November 2013
publish a summary of the main findings in the next newsletter. Stay tuned. Our major in Latin American and Latino Studies is one of the few interdisciplinary programs in the country that is at the cutting-edge of combining the study of Latinos from an ethnic perspective with an understanding of the countries they are coming from. We strive to provide students with an understanding of the histories, cultures, and contemporary circumstances of Latin Americans and Latinos in the United States using interdisciplinary approaches. Courses for our major and minor cover Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America as well as social and political processes among Latino groups in Chicago and throughout the United States. A major or minor in LALS can serve as a useful basis to pursue graduate studies, public service, and other professional careers related to Latin America or U.S. Latinos.
“In the spring of 2014, we will be implementing changes to the curriculum...”
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Featured Alumnus: Interview with Mario Lucero, M.A. Class of 2013
Mario Lucero, creator of the new LALS logo
What did you study as an undergrad? Art and Design at the Illinois Institute of Art What was your goal upon entering the program? Did this change as you went through the program? Before coming to grad school, my art was focused on Latin American and Mesoamerican mythology, Maya culture, and was very politically infused. That kind of art requires research, not only to understand where it is going, but also to make it more powerful. I entered the Master’s program to learn even more about the area and in a more structured setting, to further inform my art. While my initial goal was to develop my understanding of these topics for my art, I got lost (in a good way!) in the interdisciplinary nature of the program—Moving away from creating art for aesthetics to understanding art as part of a larger movement. It became less about me creating art and more about getting to know how people use art and the creative process to further movements and politics. Where do you work now? I am currently the Assistant Program Director for the Rafael Cintrón Latino Cultural Center at UIC. How did the LALS program prepare you for your job/ career/life? As a graduate student, I began working for the Cultural Center as a graphic designer and upon completing my Master’s I was promoted to Assistant Director. LALS was instrumental in preparing me for my current position: it’s almost as if LALS provided the theory, and LCC put it into practice. One of the strengths of the LALS program is the interdisciplinary nature of the program. Using the various interdisciplinary lenses—political, or sociological for example—to analyze problems, gave me the background to really be able to perform at my current job. All
of these skills come into play in my current position when, for example, I lead students in conversations regarding the murals at the LCC. Through the Arts-Based Civic Dialogues, I use the LCC’s mural to engage students in conversations about immigration, poverty, etc. The interdisciplinary nature of LALS prepared me to be able to confidently address the multiple issues represented in the mural. What is the greatest lesson you learned from your time at LALS? This is a hard question since throughout my time in the program I went through so many mini-transformations. If I had to choose one lesson that has stayed with me it would be to challenge everything you think you already know. This program opens up multiple perspectives, and through that you go through a process of deconstructing not only broader society, but also yourself, your beliefs, etc. What would you say to a student who is considering applying for an LALS major/minor? I used to get this question all of the time from my students, especially those who are in fields like engineering. Just by looking at the demographics, Latinos are set to be the largest group in the US by 2050. A degree in LALS will prepare you to work in any sector, private, public, non-profit by understanding the complex set of issues affecting the Latino community. Rather than looking for a job that has LALS in the title, students need to see that LALS is everywhere as Latinos are integrated into every part of society. The interdisciplinary nature of the degree allows you to look at the world through a broad spectrum of possibilities, not just on specific field. A degree in LALS can take you in any direction. Do you have any advice to graduates of LALS? My advice for undergraduates would be to recognize the power in their own voice and get involved in their communities. Students need to develop relationships throughout campus and get involved. No one is going to stop them and asked them what they want—they need to speak up and organize. This is one of the main things I got from the department: a sense of empowerment to start speaking up. The program reinforces your own sense of identity. Interview conducted by: Amalia Pallares
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Alumni News Cynthia Brito (M.A. 2012) Cynthia Brito is a civil rights paralegal for a nationally recognized Chicago law firm that works on high profile cases nationally and internationally. She is also the co-founder of Latin@ Youth Action League, a youth-led organization that focuses on undocumented youth, reproductive health, and building youth activism. Cynthia has been recognized as activist of the month by the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. She is also the President of Dare to Dream: Get Educated, an annual conference for Latina teens.
Abraham Ramirez (M.A. 2013) Abraham is currently assisting at a friend’s consulting business. The business works with predominantly nonprofit community clinics or foundations to help with marketing and advertising to helping them organize childhood diabetes prevention programs at Los Angeles elementary schools.
Mario Lucero (M.A. 2013) Mario is the Assistant Program Mario and Cynthia Director of the Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently working on a guide for Arts-Based Civic Dialogue that uses the center’s mural "El Despertar de las Americas" (The Awakening of the Americas) as a tool for civic engagement. He is featured in this newsletter.
Allison James (M.A. 2013) Allison is a case worker specializing in family unification for Heartland Alliance, a human rights non-profit organization that supports underAllison James served communities, focusing on housing, health care, economic opportunities and social justice. She works on -site at a youth detention center analyzing cases of unaccompanied minors who were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border. She works toward having the minors released from detention and reunifying them with family in the U.S. or in their country of origin, depending on the best interests of the child.
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Tania Unzueta
Tania Unzueta (M.A. 2012) Tania is full-time national organizer and immigration strategist at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. She works with day laborers and immigrant rights groups around the country, organizing against deportations and strategizing to push forward federal, state and local policy to work for low-income immigrant communities. One of the organization’s latest actions was coordinating a group of seven undocumented workers and mothers who handcuffed themselves to the White House fence to urge President Obama to stop deportations. She has also co-written an article with Hinda Seif.
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Faculty News Christopher Boyer presented the paper “A Concession to Modernity: Forestry and Development in Mid-Twentieth Century Michoacán” at the Latin American Studies Association Conference in May. He also presented “The Ineluctability of Chihuahuan Railroads” at the conference Latin American History in Chicago: The Katzworth Years; “El desarrollo precoz del manejo forestal comunitario y su presunto ocaso, 1934-1954” at the conference Las ecologías de la ciudad y el campo: La historia ambiental de México at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, Mexico City; and “Anthropologists, Indians, and the Forests of Northern Mexico” at the AmeriChristopher Boyer can Society for Environmental History conference in Toronto. He also finished his book manuscript Political Landscapes: A Social History of Mexican Forests, from Duke University Press forthcoming. He recently published a book review about Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America by John Tutino. In Social History 38, no. 1 (January 2013), 100-2. We are proud to announce that Christopher recently won the Deena Allen Teaching Award granted by the Department of History at UIC, 2013
Simone Buechler pre-
Alex E. Chavez
Alex E. Chavez presented from “From Potosí to Tennessee: Clandestine Desires and the Poetic Border” at the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island in October. He will be delivering the Keynote Address at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Ohio State University Folklore Student Association Conference—“Decentering Power: The Art of (Everyday) Subversion”—in April 2014. He completed two book reviews for the Latin American Music Review/Revista de Música Latinoamerica “Sones y Huapangos: Musique de la Huasteca et de Veracruz, Mexique (CORDAE/LaTalvera)” (Spring/Summer 2014 editino) and “Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality (Anita González) (Fall/Winter 2013 edition). Alex is serving as lead consultant for a Smithsonian Folkways Recording of Huapango Arribeño for inclusion in their Tradiciones Series.
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sented the paper “Vast Improvements between 1998 and 2013 for Self-employed Women and Microentrepreneurs in São Paulo, Brazil?” at the session entitled Simone Buechler Job quality and creative labor in Argentina and Brazil of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress in May. She also presented “The Significance of Economic Growth, Declining Inequality Statistics, and Social Policies for Faveladas in São Paulo, Brazil” at the São Paulo Symposium at the University of Chicago, where she also provided comments on the papers presented in the panel Development Aesthetics in May. She presented “Declining Levels of Inequality in Brazil: The Significance for Low-Income Women in São Paulo.” in the Comparative Urbanisms Seminar Series at the Great Cities Institute at University of Illinois at Chicago. In May she also completed he Great Cities Institute Scholar fellowship to study Declining Levels of Inequality in Brazil: The Significance for Low-income Women in São Paulo. Simone was also awarded a 2012/2013 OSSR Seed Grant by the Office of Social Science Research (OSSR), UIC, for research in São Paulo, Brazil: Declining Levels of Inequality in Brazil: Oral Histories of LowIncome Women in São Paulo.
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Ralph Cintron published “60 Years of Migration: Puerto Ricans” in Chicagoland Puerto Rican Agenda/Voorhees Center, UIC (90 pages), with co PO Maura MoroTorn; and “Neoliberalism and the Commons” in Cultural Economy Ralph Cintron with David Bleeden, Steve Ziliak (in press) He also received a Humanities Institute Fellowship, 2013-2014 to develop his project “Democracy as Fetish.” Ralph was also selected to participate in the Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, 2015, where he will be the organizer of a 5-day seminar on rhetoric and ethnography.
Elena Gutierrez
Elena Gutierrez was on sabbatical for the 2012-2013 academic year. During the period she worked on the high-impact report “Bringing Families out of Captivity: the Need to Repeal the Calworks Maximum Family Grant Rule". In September she was given an Access Award by Access Womens’ Justice (based in Northern California) for her research and this report.
Joel Palka investigated arNilda Flores-Gonzalez published the book Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013, which, she coedited with Anna R. Guevarra, Maura Toro-Morn and Grace Chang (Editors). Her chapters in this book include the Introduction Nilda Flores-Gonzalez (with Maura Moro-Torn and Anna R. Guevarra) and FLOResiste: Transnational Labor, Motherhood and Activism (with Ruth Gomberg). Her conference presentations include “Rethinking Ethnic and Racial Identity among Latino Youth.” presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Meetings, New York City, August 2013; “The ‘Other’ Race: Latino Youth Making Sense of Ethnicity and Race” at the American Sociological Association Meetings, New York City, August 2013; and “I don’t think I am American. I would say I am Mexican: Identity and the Transnational lives of the Second Generation” at the Council of Contemporary Families Conference, Miami, FL. April 2013. In August Nilda FloresGonzalez and Pamela Anne Quiroz (LALS Affiliate and Professor of Education and Sociology) were selected to be the new editors of the journal Social Problems.
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chaeological sites of early Maya civilization in addition to Protohistoric unconquered Maya settlements at Lake Mensabak (Metzabok), Chiapas, Mexico, with several Joel Palka other researchers and graduate students from UIC and other institutions in the U.S. and Mexico. The research was part of a NEH Collaborative Grant that he received in 2009. They excavated an ancestor shrine containing human skeletons where Maya people have been burning offerings for the last 500 years. The elders of the Lacandon Maya community where the researchers lived continued similar practices up until 1980, so they are able to learn about Maya religion from them. They discovered extensive canal and pond systems near the lake shore and Dr. Palka is working on dating them and learning about their functions. They also mapped households and temples at a large early Maya site (A.D. 200) and two Protohistoric Maya population centers (A.D. 1500), one with fortifications, to learn about changing Maya demography, warfare, and politics. He finished his book Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes over the summer, which will be published in the Landscape Archaeologies of the Americas Series by the University of New Mexico Press early in 2014. Page 7
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Amalia Pallares presented "Bringing Family Back in: Undocumented
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Youth and Parent Activism" at the Council on Contemporary Family's 16th Annual conference "Immigrant Families as They Really Are" April 5 - 6, University of Miami; "Symbolizing Family, Reconstructing Worthiness," a paper prepared for the Panel "Deserving Immigrants" at the Law and Society Association Meeting in Boston, May 30- June 2; and "Defining Family: Immigrant Rights Activism in Chicago" a keynote lecture at the Women of Distinction Program, College of DuPage. She was commentator on the book "Anti-immigrant Sentiments, Actions and Policies" edited by Monica Varea, at the UNAMChicago in May. This summer she traveled to Ecuador, where she updated “Uncivil Acts and Foundational Moments: the Case of Ecuador”, a book chapter accepted for publication in Sonia Alvarez, Juan Carlos Baoicchi, Agustin Flores and Millie Thayer, (eds) Interrogating Civil Society in Latin America (Duke University Press, 2014). In September she finished her book manuscript: Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Non-Citizenship.
Maria de los Angeles “Nena” Torres ended her seven -year term as Director of Latin American and Latino Studies and initiated her five year term as the new Director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research in July. As Director of IUPLR she will be responsible for spearheading national research collaborations among Latino Studies scholars and disseminating research results with high scholarly and policy impact. Additionally her book Citizens in the Present: Civically Engaged Youth in the Americas, University of Illinois Press, 2013, cowritten with Irene Rizzini and Norma del Rio , was released. She also published the chapter “Civically engaged Latino Youth”, in Immigration and the Border: Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century, edited by David Leal and Jose Limon, Notre Dame University Press, 2013.
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Maria de los Angeles Torres
Inter-University Program for Latino Research University of Illinois at Chicago College of Liberal Arts & Sciences 412 S. Peoria St. 3rd Floor (MC347) Chicago, IL. 60607
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Javier Villaflores was a research fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at UIC for the academic year 2012-2013. He spent most of the year working on a book manuscript on a history of trust and public faith in Bourbon Mexico. He also used part of his research leave to finish editing a volume on a history of emotions in colonial Mexico with Sonya Lipsett-Rivera Emotions and Daily Life in Mexico, forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press (2014). He also translated and revised two articles for edited volumes in Spanish, and finished another piece on the burning of Mexico´s National Film Archive. This last piece will be included in a volume coedited with Carlos Aguirre on the Destruction and Recovery of Archives in Latin America (Forthcoming, Editorial A Contracorriente, 2014). He also did presentations on his research at the Institute for the Humanities, and the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American History (RMCLAS), and served as a commentator at RMCLAS, and the American Ethnohistory Conference. He received a fellowship from the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research to finish research for a piece on the destruction of Mexico´s Film Archive. He is currently serving the program as the new Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Programming Committee.
Professor Javier Villaflores
Javier Villaflores is the new Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Programming Committee
Salomé Skvirsky co-organized the panel Processing
Salome Skvirsky
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Development: Cinematic and Televisual Negotiations of Latin American Modernity in the Latin American Studies Association Conference and presented the paper Introducing the Latin American Process Film. She also presented the paper “Bodily Services: on Parque Vía and Jeanne Dielman” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. She also published "The postcolonial city symphony film and the 'ruins' of Suite Habana" in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. 19:3-4 (August 2013), a special double issue on Latin American political documentary.
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Opportunities
U.S.PIRG is a nationwide network of state-based public interest advocacy groups. This year we are hiring 100 graduating college students for our jobs across the country. We work on a range of public interest issues, from protecting and improving public health to making college more affordable, to working for more and better public transportation—including highspeed rail. We are currently looking for smart, talented college graduates to work with us as campus organizers and in our fellowship program.
For more information contact: U.S. Public Interest Research Group: The Federation of State Pirgs 44 Winter St.,4th Floor Boston, MA. 02108 jobs.uspirg.org/home
The USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program seeks to attract outstanding young people who are interested in pursuing careers in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). If you want to work on the front lines of some of the most pressing global challenges of our times — poverty, hunger, injustice, disease, environmental degradation, climate change, conflict and violent extremism – the Foreign Service of the U.S. Agency for International Development provides an opportunity to advance U.S. foreign policy interests and reflect the American people's compassion and support of human dignity. The Payne Fellowship, which provides up to $90,000 in benefits over two years for graduate school, internships, and professional development activities, provides a unique pathway to the USAID Foreign Service. The Payne Fellowship encourages the application of members of minority groups who have historically been underrepresented in international development careers and those with financial need.
For more information contact: Donald M. Payne International Development Fellowship Program Paynefellows@howard.edu 2218 6th Street, NW Washington, DC 20059 Tel: (202) 806-4367 or (877) 633-0002 Fax: (202) 806-5424 www.paynefellows.org
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The Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship & Summer Enrichment Program Promoting a positive U.S. presence in the world that reflects and respects the strength and diversity of America. The Rangel Program is a collaborative effort between Howard University and the U.S. State Department that seeks to attract and prepare outstanding young people for careers as diplomats in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State. The program seeks individuals interested in helping to shape a freer, more secure and prosperous world through formulating, representing, and implementing U.S. foreign policy. The Program encourages the application of members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service and those with financial need. There are two major components to the Rangel Program: an International Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program that provides support for graduate school, professional development, and entry into the U.S. Foreign Service, and an undergraduate International Affairs Summer Enrichment Program that provides undergraduates with the opportunity to enhance their skills, knowledge and understanding about U.S. foreign policy. For more information contact: rangelprogram@howard.edu 2218 6th Street, NW Washington, DC 20059 Tel: (202) 806-4367 or (877) 633-0002 Fax: (202) 806-5424 Patricia Scroggs, Director pscroggs@howard.edu James McDowell, Program Assistant jrmcdowell@howard.edu www.rangelprogram.org
IUPLR After a hugely successful and well-attended welcoming party from UIC administration, the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) proudly announces its thanks to all who supported its move to the UIC campus! For the next five years, UIC will be home to IUPLR — a national consortium of twentyfive university-based research centers focusing on Latinos. We thank Professor Gilberto Cardenas of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame for his prior fourteen years of service and leadership at IUPLR. Prof. Maria de los Angeles Torres, the new Executive Director, looks forward to the future plans of this November 2013
A Rangel Fellow being accepted into the Graduate Program
growing consortium at UIC. For the last thirty years, IUPLR has been at the forefront of promoting interdisciplinary research, including work on the economy, politics, culture, art history, and immigration. It will maintain a special partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau, enabling IUPLR associates to engage in topicspecific research through trainings and unique access to data. IUPLR also has an office in Washington D.C. that works closely with policy makers. The consortium has been dedicated to building research capacity through multiple programs including one co-sponsored with the Smithsonian to train graduate students in Museum Studies and an undergraduate policy program. For details visit iuplr.uic.edu Page 11
LALS Events LALS Graduate Students Brown Bag
LALS Open House
The University of Illinois at Chicago Latin American and Latino Studies Program
Speaking for the Future: Statistics, Electoral
invites you to their Master of Arts Program
Demonstrations, and Latino Sleeping Giants
in Latin American and Latino Studies
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Brown University
OPEN HOUSE
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 @ 11:00 am
Thursday, November 21, 2013
1550 University Hall
4 to 6 p.m. UH 1550 Conference Room
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University of Illinois at Chicago Latin American & Latino Studies Program 1525 University Hall 601 S. Morgan St. MC 219 Chicago, ILL 60607 Phone: (312) 996-2445 Fax: (312) 996-1796 http://www.uic.edu/las/lals
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• Learn about our interdisciplinary program • Meet our faculty and affiliates • Talk with current and past graduate students • Enjoy light refreshments and good conversations This event is in collaboration with the Graduate College. For more information and to RSVP : Call LALS at 312-996-2445 or email martae@uic.edu