The new CLACS Steering Committee for 2024-2026 has officially been selected! Following a survey sent out to all CLACS faculty and affiliate faculty members, 4 nominees were chosen to represent the department. Additionally, 4 members were nominated by the Director of CLACS, Professor Serafin Coronel-Molina. The 8 new faculty members joining our Steering Committee hail… Read more »
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Lecturing Artist Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo shares work in documenting Indigenous fights to save the Earth
CLACS is thrilled to host Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo in sharing her selected collection with Indiana University and the surrounding community from January 25-March 1 at the Gayle Karch Cook Center in Maxwell Hall. McNichols-Torroledo, a Colombian photographer and multimedia artist, has spent the last 13 years of her life documenting Indigenous communities in North and South… Read more »
Indiana University awarded Title VI Grant
Indiana University has been awarded $17.7 million from the U.S. Department of Education to support research, instruction and training in world languages, regions and international business — the highest total amount awarded to any university. Read more
CLACS GA attends World Social Forum
Geography Professor Dr. Patricia de Toledo Basile and CLACS Graduate Assistant Erin Brown are traveling to the World Social Forum in Mexico City! This semester, Dr. de Toledo Basile taught a course titled “Solidarity Economies in Latin America” where graduate and undergraduate students learned about solidarity initiatives throughout the region. Indiana University have worked in… Read more »
Announcing our 2022 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)
We wish to congratulate and recognize our 2022 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Recipients. Awardee Name Degree Program of Study Language Robert Pugh PhD Linguistics Maya Erin Brown MA Latin American/Caribbean Studies Haitian Creole Abe Kassis BA Spanish and Portuguese; Linguistics Portuguese Hector Figeroa PhD Ecology and Evoluntionary Biology Maya Rachel Garza PhD Spanish… Read more »
Summer 2022 Intensive Portuguese/Elementary Portuguese for Graduate Students
HISP-P135/P491 Intensive Portuguese/Elementary Portuguese for Graduate Students Indiana University Bloomington Online via Zoom Summer II June 20 – July 29, 2022 Days and Times: MWF 1:50PM-3:05PM US Eastern Standard Time via Zoom, TR taught asynchronously Class open to students in the Big Ten, BTAA BIG TEN share course Course Description: This section of P135/491 meets synchronously… Read more »
Alberto Varon receives $215,000 New Directions Fellowship
Alberto Varon, associate professor of English and director of the Latino Studies Program in the College of Arts of Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has been awarded a $215,000 grant by the Mellon Foundation to support a New Directions Fellowship, which are designed to assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who… Read more »
Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Religious Culture has won book award
CLACS is pleased to announce that Dr. Solimar Otero’s book, Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Religious Culture has won the 2021 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions.
Dr. Keitlyn Alcántara featured on Wenner-Gren Foundation blog
Learn more about some of the fascinating research and community outreach that Keitlyn Alcántara, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, has been doing with her project on “Food and Resistance in Ancient and Contemporary Tlaxcala,” supported by a Wenner-Gren Engaged Anthropology Grant: http://blog.wennergren.org/2021/11/eag-keitlyn-alcantara/
John McDowell Retirement
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies would like to congratulate Dr. John McDowell in his retirement after a 46-year career in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. He also served as CLACS’ Interim Director in 1998. Dr. McDowell arrived at Indiana University in 1975 after studying Folklore at the University of Texas. His… Read more »