UWM CLACS is pleased to announce that we have selected four CLACS Faculty Fellows for academic year 2025-26. Throughout the upcoming year, Fellows will hold periodic cohort meetings for scholarly exchange on works-in-progress, and each will work with CLACS staff to offer a public-facing program that brings their research to a wider audience. (Check back on our website for announcements of these events!)

This year’s CLACS Fellows theme, Challenge and Progress, encourages the cohort to consider how their academic work foregrounds areas of struggle and/or advancement related to Latin America and the Caribbean. In a region historically shaped by positivist narratives of social, political, and economic progress, new perspectives on Latin American and Caribbean development may be in order.

Please join us in congratulating each of this year’s Fellows!

Susana Antunes (World Languages & Cultures)

Resisting Erasure, Reclaiming Futures: Indigenous Cultures of Mato Grosso do Sul and the Tensions of ‘Progress’

Gilberto Blasini (English; Film Studies)

Cinematic and Televisual Construction of Caribbean Cultural Identities

Susi Gómez Kennedy (Center for Student Experience and Talent; Comparative Literature)

Illegible Writing, Embodied Reading: Mirtha Dermisache and the Aesthetics of Cognitive Resistance

Gabriela Nagy (Psychology)

Acculturative Stress and Resilience Factors in Immigrants from Latin America