Dear LACIS Community, Welcome to the beginning of the 2024-2025 Academic year! It was an exciting first year as your faculty director and I look forward to what this coming year will bring. Hopefully you …
Uncategorized
14 UW–Madison students win Fulbright awards
FLAS Recipient, Rosalie Powell’s, UW–Madison Adventure – WISc, NASA, and Beyond!
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 …
Farewell from Dr. Kata Beilin, LACIS Faculty Director
Dear LACIS Community, I am writing to let you know that after three years, I am stepping down from the position of LACIS Faculty Director to work on my research in Yucatan as a Fulbright …
LACIS Announces Spring/Summer 2022 Graduates!
Please join us in congratulating the following students who completed their degree (or will complete their degree in August) with the LACIS major! HANNA ANHALT LAURYN AZU ELENA CATA ANTHONY CHAMBERS ERIKA ESPARZA KAVANAUGH FITZPATRICK …
Congratulations to the Winners of LACIS’ 2021 Seed Grant Competition!
Composed by Julia Emery, LACIS Graduate PA. Congratulations to the two interdisciplinary teams awarded LACIS SEED Grants for 2021/22. The purpose of LACIS SEED Grants is to facilitate interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research among Latin American, Caribbean, and …
LACIS Honorary Fellow contributes to “The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Poeples’ Food Systems”
LACIS’ Honorary Fellow, Olga Lucia Chaparro Africano has contributed to this important document (The White Wiphala paper Indigenous Peoples Food Systems) which was prepared by the World Center for Food Systems of Indigenous Peoples of …