Please join us in congratulating Prof. Alejandro Carrion. He just received an AGS faculty honor roll recognition for his dynamic teaching this past year. He was nominated for his work in Latina/o Studies 392: Decolonizing Education. Felicidades, Prof. Carrion!
Congratulations to our LLS major, Isabella Soto, for having her proposal accepted in the VIII Biennial Dominican Studies Conference to be held in the Bronx, NY, in November 2018. Isabella will be presenting her work in progress regarding the Dominican community in McAllen, Texas. Bravo, Isabella!
Elvia's scholarship on violence, memory, race
Congratulations to Professor John Marquez for having received a Newberry Library Research Fellowship for part of 2017-18!
Our graduating senior, Fatima Gomez, who is a double major in English and Latinx Studies, has been admitted to the Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Society. Please join me in congratulating her on her achievements!
Professor Carrillo's book, Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men has been selected to receive the following two awards at the upcoming American Sociological Association Meeting in August:
Congratulations to Professor Emily Maguire for having been selected as a Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellow for 2017-18!
Please join us in congratulating LLSP Professor Gerry Cadava. He received the Community Building Award from Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Please join us in congratulating Jaime Dominguez on his promotion to Assistant Professor of Instruction. Great job, Jaime! We are honored to have you with us in LLSP.
Kudos to Alejandro Carrion for being highlighted in this article for the YPAR project with ETHS and the impact it has on all our students
Hurricane Maria survivor Veronica Davila said when her house flooded during the hurricane, “the darkness (was) so deep, no one could tell how much water there was.” Davila and Javier Valentin Feliciano, both residents of Puerto Rico, spoke in Kresge Hall on Thursday about their experience during Hurricane Maria and its aftermath, Feliciano lost his sister, Maria Valentin Feliciano, in the hurricane and dedicated his presentation to her and policeman Angel Lorenzo-Gonzalez, who also died.
As individual faculty members who are also directors of the Asian American Studies Program and the Latina and Latino Studies Program, we write to express our support for the “To Be Departments” campaign. This campaign, organized by the Latinx Asian American Collective, includes a petition with over 1,100 signatories in favor of the development of an Asian American Studies Department and a Latinx Studies Department. We endorse such departmentalization as a way to address the chronic challenges we face as a result of our status as programs that inhibit the sustainability and growth of our vibrant fields
Being a student at Northwestern felt isolating for a very long time. To start, no one looked like me. I had dark skin, Asian eyes and a culture that was unrelatable to many other people around me. I am half Honduran (Hispanic descent) and half Filipino (Asian descent). My first impressions of other NU students’ cultural awareness were often shaped by questions like, “You look so exotic, what are you?” and “Are you Mexican?” These questions felt representative of NU — some students had great exposure to other cultures and ethnicities, but many others clearly did not. My intention is not to paint any students as ignorant — that word creates an image of being set in stone. I also cannot speak to another individual’s experience, nor am I trying to, but I only ask that you respect how I process people and their interactions with me
A petition to make the Latina and Latino Studies Program and the Asian American Studies Program departments
When Los Angeles-born Salvadoran poet Yesika Salgado spoke and performed her work at Northwestern on Thursday, she said she was happy to see her fans from across Chicago gathering in Harris Hall. While it is important to speak at institutions like NU, Salgado said it is also important for her art to be accessible
Justine Kim had lived as a racial minority her entire life — her hometown of Glenview, Illinois, is more than three-quarters white. Fearing that she wouldn’t be accepted, she did not often express her Korean identity. So after gaining acceptance to Northwestern, she didn’t consider what her experience would be like as a Korean American at a school made up of many more non-white students.
MEChA de Northwestern and the Asian Pacific American Coalition are leading a campaign for department status for two of the University’s largest ethnic studies programs
