UWM’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) recently teamed up with UWM ArtsECO and the Mexican Consulate in Milwaukee to bring an arts and culture program about migration to students at South Division High School. These students, currently … Continue Reading »

As we commemorate the 60th anniversary of CLACS’s founding in 1965, our center took the opportunity to check in with campus, community, and regional partners about how our collaborations have shaped their work. All of these partnerships have furthered our … Continue Reading »

The North Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA) has promoted Latin American studies in Wisconsin and the surrounding area since 1966 – and its organizational headquarters are right here in Milwaukee, at UWM’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies … Continue Reading »

Did you know CLACS was a 1993 co-founder of the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature? CLACS Associate Director Emerita, Julie Kline, teamed up with colleagues at other centers for Latin American studies to establish this honor, which … Continue Reading »

In May 2025, UWM teaching faculty Brian Mueller (History) traveled with CLACS support to conduct research in Berkeley, California. His destination? The Graduate Theological Union (GTU), whose archives possess an invaluable collection of documents related to the Sanctuary Movement, the … Continue Reading »

This semester we are pleased to host three scholars whose research areas span diverse regions and disciplines within Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx Studies – capturing the diversity of topics you can study in our interdisciplinary LACUSL major. We … Continue Reading »

This past June, Professor Pamela Harris (Mathematical Sciences, UWM) traveled to Bogotá, Colombia to present a week-long seminar as part of Días de Combinatoria, a multi-institution professional training hosted at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. The collaborative event, an initiative of the … Continue Reading »

At the close of spring semester 2025, CLACS Regional Faculty Affiliate Professor Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo (UW-La Crosse, Global Cultures & Languages) traveled to San Francisco, CA to present her literary research at the Latin American Studies Association annual congress, … Continue Reading »

This July 7-9, UWM’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies welcomed 25 K-16 educators to campus for our annual Summer Teacher Institute, supported in part by a National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education and in … Continue Reading »

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 … Continue Reading »