January 2025 Dear USLS students, faculty, friends, and community members, Happy New Year! I hope that the winter vacations have provided all with the time to share with friends and family, and to regenerate for an exciting Spring semester ahead. The US Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University continues ISU strong with cross-listed classes … Continue reading Director’s Letter Spring 2025
Miller Faculty Fellowship Grant Helps Support Course on Memoirs, Oral Histories
Anlis Mercado, USLS Minor, just graduated from the University of Puerto Rico Law School! She wrote that “Because of that internship, I made the decision to go to Law school. I just finished Law School with distinctions and high honors (one of them being social compromise to help those marginalized and without a voice). You, Jon … Continue reading USLS GRADS IN THE WORLD: Anlis Mercado Rios
Photo by: Christopher Gannon, University Photographer The collected oral histories in this archive have been produced by students in the community engaged/outreach course, USLS/SPAN/ENG 3770: LATINA/O/X LIFE STORIES: Memoirs and Oral Histories. Inspired by the Voces of the Pandemic Oral History archive, based at University of Texas, Austin, (US Latino/a Studies Program ISU is a … Continue reading Iowa U.S. Latina/o/x Oral Histories: Stories of Education
USLS/SPAN/ENGL 377: Latino/a/x Stories, Memoirs and Oral Histories celebrated a semester of exciting collaborations with Marshalltown High School Mujeres, Al Exito, and ISU students. We featured the oral histories gathered, which will be archived at the Parks Library, memoir readings by all students (high school and college), and memoir marketing posters. We congratulated Vania Ibarra, … Continue reading Latina/o/x Life Stories: End of Semester Celebration
Johanna Burr, our fabulous graduate student instructor, led student centered projects throughout the semester. Here are some samples of the podcast project the students produced.
Congratulations to our USLS graduating Senior, Iris Martínez, for the EXCELLENCE IN Latinx Studies Award. Iris, who serves for the US Army, will be graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and Psychology from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a minor in U.S. Latino/a Studies. After graduation, Iris will continue with her military … Continue reading USLS Award Recipient: Excellence in U.S. Latinx Studies
Spring 2024 Dear USLS students, faculty, friends, and community members, The US Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University continues ISU strong with cross-listed classes in the School of Ed, History, Anthropology, Spanish, and English, and with its own core, Community Engaged Learning classes. This semester USLS is offering the course, Latina/o/x Life Stories: Memoirs … Continue reading Director’s Letter Spring 2024