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Nuestra voz en español brings students together to speak Spanish with other heritage speakers in an informal setting. No homework, no tests, just snacks and conversation.
Every Wednesday 5:00 - 6:00 pm, 429 Rockefeller Hall.
“Fridays with Alumni” kicks off Jan. 31 featuring Kim Cardenas '17 & Joseph De Los Santos '19,
Like many academics, fifth-year doctoral candidate Laura Caicedo's (they/them) journey through academia has been complex and sometimes isolating.
Latina/o Studies and the Cornell Latino Alumni Association launches a hybrid lunchtime series, Fridays with Alumni.
Now in its twenty-first year, the Latina/o Studies Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students to meet faculty and administrators for an informal conversation about their current research/work in progress.
Our first Spring 2025 FWF will be Friday, February 7 @ 12 noon. Save the date!
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The award recognizes scientists, engineers and science policymakers who have given unstintingly over their careers to advance energy science and technology.
The 31st Unity Dinner took place on October 18th and featured keynote speaker Dr. Evelyn Ambriz '11 and '15. The festive night included dinner and performances by Mariachi Regional en Cornell Univeristy, Salsa Pa'alante and Sabor Latino Dance Ensemble.
Karen Jaime, Associate Professor in Latina/o Studies and the Department of Performing and Media Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences received the Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in Graduate and Professional Degree Programs.
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Paul Ortiz served as an adviser and on-camera expert for “American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos,” a three-part docuseries premiering Sept. 27 on PBS.
Paul Ortiz, who joined the ILR faculty in summer 2024 as a professor of labor history, served as an adviser and on-camera expert for “American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos,” a three-part docuseries premiering Sept. 27 on PBS.
For the 2025 Spring semester, Latina/o Studies offers a range of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level with the opportunity to explore and learn about history, communities, literature, immigration, as well as cultural identity, migration, language, and more.
Cornell University, Ithaca College, and the downtown Ithaca community come together for a month long series of events in celebration of Latino Heritage Month.
Don't miss the Annual Heritage Fiesta this Saturday, October 5th, 11 am-5pm, 110 W. Green Street, Ithaca!
Cornell’s Latine community members gathered at the Latino Living Center on September 6, 2024 for the annual Bienvenidos BBQ. Contagious music and laughter filled the air as students from all backgrounds visited student organizations' tables in the courtyard, munching down on catered arepas and snacks.
“Nuestra voz en español” will continue during Fall 2024 to bring students together to speak Spanish with other heritage speakers in an informal setting.
Every Thursday 5:00 - 6:00 pm @ 429 Rockefeller Hall. No homework, no tests, just snacks and conversation.
Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, Literatures in English and Latina/o Studies
Cine con Cultura launches its film festival celebrating Latinx Heritage month. The festival brings 14 films in Spanish, English, and Portuguese to Ithaca. Film screenings will be held at Cornell Cinema, Cinemapolis, and Ithaca College. Some films are free and all are open to the public.
Latinx American Film Festival continues this week with 3 films:
Legacy of the Andes (ARG/USA/MEX) @ 10:50 am Ithaca College
Los Colonos (Chile) @ 8 pm Cinemapolis
Pictures of Ghosts (Brasil) @ 5 pm Cornell Cinema
"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
APSA awards Professor Shannon Gleeson, Latina/o Studies teaching faculty, the 2024 Latin@/x Caucus Best Book Award.
The Latina/o Studies Program welcomes Dr. Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, a new jointly appointed
associate professor in Latina/o Studies and the Department of Literatures in English in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Join the Latina/o Studies Program and the Latine Student Success Office for lunch as we welcome new and returning students.
Friday, September 13 @ 12 noon - 4th floor Rockefeller Hall
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
Twenty-eight new faculty have joined the College of Arts & Sciences this year, bringing innovative ideas in a wide diversity of topics, from climate politics to experimental fiction, from artificial intelligence to health economics, enhancing the College’s interdisciplinary strengths and curiosity-driven discoveries.
The exhibit brings a nuanced view to a complicated period in Latin American art, and it is doing so with the help of student curators.
With these new appointments, the number of A&S faculty appointed to endowed professorships since fall 2018 has reached 76.
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Congratulations to the Latina/o Studies undergraduate and graduate minors and graduates of the class of 2024!
Axaraly Ortiz is a history major.
Olivia Ochoa is a Spanish & American studies major.
Ana Gabriela Carmona-Pereda is a performing & media arts major.
Now in its twenty-first year, the Latina/o Studies Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for an informal conversation about their current research/work in progress.
We are excited to introduce “ALMA", (Aprendizaje, Liderazgo, Motivación y Autoestima), a new initiative under Latinx Student Empowerment.
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
The Latina/o Studies Program laments the recent passing of former collaborator and affiliated faculty, Margarita Suñer, Professor of Linguistics Emerita in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Reflecting on wisdom, Ochoa notes the struggle to find not only an inclusive space but also a space where you feel like you belong. Regarding being at Cornell, "It gets easier and then it gets harder, but it gets better." To other Latine students, Ochoa remarked on the need to continue investing in the Latino Studies Program: " People really put so much effort into making it what it is. It's on them, it's on you all, to keep showing up."
"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Support Latinx Studies on March 14, 2024!
Latina/o Studies welcomes three new student interns: Hayley Marino (she/her) from the College of Human Ecology, Ángel Escamilla (he/him) from the College of Arts & Sciences, and Angélica Ochoa (she/they) from the College of Arts & Sciences.
“Nuestra voz en español” will continue during Spring 2024 to bring students together to speak Spanish with other heritage speakers in an informal setting.
Every Thursday 4:30-5:30 pm @ 429 Rockefeller Hall.
The collaborative mixed media projects, showcased online and in Rockefeller Hall, explore how culture strengthens and uplifts communities.
Estefania Perez ’21 is in her second year as a paralegal with the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.
Now in its twentieth year, the Latina/o Studies Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for an informal conversation about their current research/work in progress with lunch provided.
April 26 @ 12 pm
429 Rockefeller Hall
Gabriela S. Gómez Estévez
Assistant Professor
Director of Orchestras
Department of Music
College of Arts and Sciences
Fiction writer Manuel Muñoz, MFA ’98, draws inspiration from his upbringing in a Mexican-American farming family
Latina/o Studies visiting assistant Professor Fernando Enrique Villegas Rivera aims to connect with Cornell Latino/a/e Students by furthering his Transnational Studies of Migration.
María Cristina García, Professor of Latina/o Studies and Department of History awarded a 2023 Stephen H. Weiss Teaching Award. We are grateful to have faculty like Professor García advising and advocating for students in and outside of the classroom.
Three years after the disruptions of 2020, teaching and research continue to be immensely different from pre-pandemic times, according to scholar Debra Castillo.
Cornell alumna, Karla Vergara ‘11 J.D. Boston College ‘17 gave uplifting keynote address about her time at Cornell, her culture and advice to current Latine students at Cornell.
Join us for a weekend of events, A Celebration of Chicana Feminism and the Work of Helena María Viramontes, October 20 - 21, 2023 at Cornell University.
This new Mentoring Initiative for Cornell Latinx Students is designed to connect students with CLAA alumni who have expertise in specific fields, and to cultivate, engage, and inspire Cornell Latina/o/x students in achieving personal and professional excellence and be the leaders of today and tomorrow.
For the 2024 Fall semester, Latina/o Studies offers a range of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level with the opportunity to explore and learn about history, communities, literature, immigration, as well as cultural identity, migration, language, and more.