by Vera Leone, LACIS MA-Dual Degree Student On Friday, June 7, 2024, the indigenous peoples and nationalities of Ecuador held an inauguration ceremony for the new leaders of Universidad Amawtay Wasi, Ecuador’s public indigenous community …
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UW Alum, Dr. Carlos A. Argüelles-Delgado featured in La Republica (March 24, 2024)
UW Alum, Dr. Carlos A. Argüelles-Delgado featured in La Republica (March 24, 2024): “Meet the first Peruvian physicist to teach at Harvard and earn more than S/3 million to continue his research”. READ THE ARTICLE
UW Alum, Dr. Eduardo Santana, Appointed Emeritus Professor, University of Guadalajara
LACIS congratulates our colleague, Eduardo Santana, for his prestigious appointment as Emeritus Professor at the University of Guadalajara. See the note below and additional materials for more information about his long collaboration with LACIS. We …
Remembering Tinker Visiting Professor, Dr. Carlos Urzúa
It is with deep sadness that we share news of the passing of esteemed Professor Carlos Urzúa, who spent time in our community in 2021 as a Tinker Visiting Professor. Professor Urzúa completed his PhD …
14 UW–Madison students win Fulbright awards
FLAS Recipient, Rosalie Powell’s, UW–Madison Adventure – WISc, NASA, and Beyond!
Article published in El Pais by UW alum, Marcos Colon: “Criminal mining, militarization and Indigenous challenges in the Ecuadorian crisis”
The government is faced with the task of comprehensively addressing these problems in the face of the voices and concerns of Indigenous communities and other affected sectors…
LACIS Honorary Fellow, Dr. Federico Subervi, Receives Continuation Award for Research on Risk Communication in Puerto Rico
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Federico Subervi, an Honorary Fellow at the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), has been awarded a $10,000 Continuation Award for his collaborative research on risk …
Fall-in-Review from LACIS’ Faculty Director, Dr. Sara McKinnon
Dear LACIS Community, It has been just over two months since I began as Faculty Director and each day, I am getting a clearer sense of the diverse research and teaching activities of our LACIS …
Welcome from LACIS’ New Faculty Director, Dr. Sara McKinnon
Greetings all, I am pleased to offer my first back-to-school fall welcome as the new Faculty Director of LACIS. For those of you I’ve yet to meet, I am Sara McKinnon, Professor of Rhetoric, Politics …