LATINA/O STUDIES

Highlight: Latino Rebels founder Julio Ricardo Varela to speak in Spring 2019

The Latinx Studies Program is currently scheduling a spring 2019 visit by Latino Rebels founder and Latino USA contributor Julio Ricardo Varela to speak about Latina/o issues in journalism.

LEARN MORE; Faculty Member Publishes First Book

Latina/o Studies faculty member Judith Sierra-Rivera has just published her first book, entitled Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas.

LEARN MORE; Program Director Publishes New Book

Latina/o Studies Program Director A.K. Sandoval-Strausz published Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History, coedited with Nancy H. Kwak of the University of California-San Diego.

LEARN MORE; Hispanic Heritage Month 2018

Melissa Landrau Vega, Director of the Multicultural Resource Center and Latina/o Studies board member, took the lead in organizing events for Hispanic Heritage Month 2018.

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Welcome to Latina/o Studies!

Intro Image.png Our mission is to promote a critical understanding of the historical and contemporary position of Latinas, Latinos, and Latinxs in the United States.

This goal is to be achieved through the following:

Undergraduate and graduate courses that foster an understanding of Latinas/os in the United States political system, economy, and culture.
Research and scholarship by faculty and students that contribute to our knowledge about the historical and contemporary experiences of Latinas/os.
Public programming and community outreach that raise awareness of issues that Latinas/os face and contributions they make in different arenas.

News: Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Princeton Professor Dan-El Padilla Peralta visited Penn State recently to give talks on both his scholarly research and his celebrated memoir.; Affluence and the production of illegality
Lise Nelson, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Geography, gave a presentation entitled ‘Affluence and the Production of Illegality’ on Tuesday, October 9th in 124 Sparks. The talk explored the connections between landscapes of luxury and new geographies of low-wage Latinx immigrant settlement, both of which are situated at the cross-hairs of globalization and white nationalism.; An American language: the history of Spanish in the U.S.
Rosina Lozano of Princeton University offered a talk entitled ‘An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States’ on Monday, October 8th in Foster Auditorium, in which Lozano presents detailed accounts of the historical role of Spanish as a state-sanctioned language and demonstrates how this was an important crucible of identity and power in the U.S. past.; News - SEE ALL NEWS

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