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 »

Among the many celebrations that accompany the successful end to an academic year, this spring CLACS had a special milestone to celebrate: ten years under the leadership of Natasha Borges Sugiyama, Professor of Political Science and Director of UWM’s Center … Continue Reading »

Every year, UWM’s Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR) hosts a spring symposium to recognize and celebrate undergraduate students’ contributions to the research enterprise here at UWM. This year’s symposium took place on Friday April 25, and featured over 275 student … Continue Reading »