Department News

Please consider attending the distinct, online DICATS event on February 23, 2019. DES PhD Student Shawn Trenell O’Neal will be performing his collaborative project Hands of Midnight with the assistance of CU Instructor of Media Professor Patrick Clark . Our time slot is Saturday, February 23 from 2-3pm. Feel free...

The National Association of Chicano/a Studies has awarded our PhD Candidate, Raul Melgoza, the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award). His paper was titled “Like the Monarch Butterfly”: Mariposas, Migrantes, and Chicanx Comparative Critique. Congrats, Raul!

Please note the following corrections to the linked article about Dr. Ordaz: CHANGE, “systemic and cultural forms of conversation and activism” to “systemic and institutional forms of oppression and activism” CHANGE “These spaces need to be mandatory” to “These spaces are essential” CHANGE “At the heart of ethnic studies is...

PhD. student Natasha Myhal has been awarded the Native American Natural Resource Research Scholarship, which will allow her to continue her research fieldwork with Anishinaabe communities this summer. The Intertribal Timber Council (ITC), in partnership with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, provides scholarship opportunities for Native American students...

Three of our Ph.D. students, Lau Malaver, Alejandra Portillos & Jose Vasquez-Zarate, received Tinker Grants from the Latin American Studies Center to support their projects in Colombia, Mexico City & Oaxaca this summer 2019! For the duration of a month and a half, Lau Malaver, born and raised in Bogotá,...