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
Berta Jottar is an independent scholar and media maker with a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, TISCH School of the Arts. For the past 20 years, she has specialized in the research, recording, and editing of the music and dance practices of the Afro-Latinx Diaspora in the East Coast, … Continue reading Rumba: Tales of Sound & Sentiment in the Afro-Latinx Diaspora
USLS is just thrilled to welcome its newest affiliate, Dr. Luana Lamberti. I am a sociolinguist and a creolist. My research focuses on the sociolinguistic aspect of contact-induced features from Portuguese and Spanish. I have carried out long-term research in the Helvécia community from Bahia, Brazil, to document Helvécia Afro-Brazilian Portuguese. I have also worked … Continue reading Welcome New Faculty Affiliate!
Special journal issue, which features Iowa State’s USLS, guest editor Lucía M. Suárez, is now available! Diálogo 24.2 has officially launched on Project Muse.