05/19/2020 - Julie L. Williams Julie L. Williams is a friend of CLACS and UIUC alumna who received her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology. She is also a former FLAS fellow. Currently, she serves as...
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05/12/2020 - CLACS extends heartfelt congratulations to affiliate Dr. Kora Maldonado (Anthropology/American Indian Studies) for her recent receipt of the J. Fedrick Miller Award for Distinguished Volunteer...
05/12/2020 - Dear Colleagues, As this difficult semester winds down, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is thrilled to share three items of good news from the past few months. First, CLACS...
05/05/2020 - by Joe Coyle Joe Coyle is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology who has recently returned from Brazil after the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted his dissertation fieldwork. Joe's...
04/27/2020 - By Ian Middleton Ian Middleton (Ph.D. 2018, Musicology) is a UI grad and longtime friend of CLACS, having both TA'ed and taught LAST 170: Introduction to Latin American Studies. He now is an...
04/20/2020 - By Kelsey O'Berry This piece was originally published on Recognizing Excellence a website affiliated the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Update: Olimpismo: The...
04/13/2020 - by Claire Branigan (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology) Claire Branigan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology who has spent the last year living in Argentina while conducting...
04/13/2020 - CLACS is pleased to announce that we have award SGRF fellowships to 18 students from across campus. The SGRF fellowship program consists of four awards, Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants,...
03/30/2020 - Dear Colleagues, As you know, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies has suspended public programming for the remainder of the spring semester in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and...
12/04/2019 - University of Illinois political science professor and Venezuelan native Damarys Canache ...
11/20/2019 - CLACS faculty member Andrew Orta's new book-“Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture”- studies the...