
Colonialism, Independence, and the Construction of Nation-States by Forrest D. Colburn
Investigates studies on colonialism and anti-colonialism from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.

NEH Summer Institute for Higher-Education Faculty Application Deadline: 3/1/22
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for Higher-Education Faculty takes place June 6–18 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the University of Houston.

Poet, Journalist, and Teacher Rubén Martínez is Awarded the 2022 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature
Congratulations Professor Rubén Martínez!

Book Announcement: Assimilation: An Alternative History by Catherine S. Ramirez of UC Santa Cruz
In this bold, discipline-traversing cultural history, Catherine Ramírez develops an entirely different account of assimilation.

Book Announcement: Precarity and Belonging Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship by Catherine S. Ramírez
Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage.

Farewell to UIC Chancellor Michael Amiridis
We will celebrate these and many other achievements in the coming months to highlight what Michael has meant to UIC.

(PAST OPPORTUNITY) Deadline Extension for Pre-Doctoral Summer Institute in Latino Humanities Methodologies and Theories
Summer Institute 2022 Deadline Extended to 2/15/22

UTEP Joins Leading Hispanic-Serving Universities to Prepare Next Generation of Hispanic Humanities Scholars
The University of Texas at El Paso has joined the nation’s top-tier Hispanic-Serving Institutions in a new initiative to advance teaching, research and cultural programming in the area of Latino humanities studies.

Leading Hispanic-Serving Universities Prepare Next Generation of Hispanic Humanities Scholars
Initiative is funded by a $5M grant from the Mellon Foundation

Fifty Years in the Making
Last October, UC Riverside was named a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution, or HSI, Leader for our work supporting the international exchange program.

Crossing Latinidades: Emerging Scholars and New Comparative Directions
For Meeting of January 19, 2022
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AS A HISPANIC- AND MINORITY-SERVING RESEARCH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

CUNY named to national consortium to improve opportunities for Latinx students
CUNY was named to a new prestigious national consortium which seeks to improve academic opportunities for Latinx students in the humanities.

UArizona Shares in $5M Grant to Support Latino Humanities Studies
The "Crossing Latinidades: Emerging Scholars and New Comparative Directions" project centers on research and training initiatives that will expand opportunities for a growing population of Latinx students and support a national cohort of doctoral students in Latinx humanities studies.

Crossing Latinidaes— A new generation of Latinx Researchers and Scholars
UTA part of $5M Mellon Foundation grant to support national initiative in Latino humanities studies.

CUNY joins prestigious consortium to aid LatinX graduate humanities students; a pathway to faculty positions
The City University of New York has been named to a prestigious new national consortium that aims to improve academic opportunities for Latinx scholars in the humanities.

Mellon Foundation grant will support UH Latino Humanities Studies
The University of Houston is part of a 16-university consortium of Tier One Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) that has received a $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will fund a national initiative in Latino Studies called “Crossing Latinidades: Emerging Scholars and New Comparative Directions.”

UIC to lead new consortium of Hispanic-Serving Institutions
The University of Illinois Chicago will lead a new consortium of 16 Hispanic-Serving Institutions, or HSIs, that have R1 designation — top tier doctoral university with very high research activity — in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

UH Joins National Initiative to Advance Latino Humanities Studies
UH is part of a new consortium of Tier One Hispanic-Serving Institutions that has received a $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The University has a number of programs that serve Latino students and faculty members and advance scholarship in Latino humanities.

UCI is Part of a New National Consortium on Latino Humanities Studies
The consortium includes all 16 Hispanic-Serving Institutions, or HSIs, in the country, that have the R1 designation — top tier doctoral universities with very high research activity — in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

UCF Joins New National Consortium, Computing Alliance to Support Latino Students
The two initiatives include nearly $8 million in combined awards that will advance Latinx scholarship and foster success of women and Hispanic students in computing.