Annual Bienvenidos Provides Latine Communidad
Bilingual chisme, laughter, music, dancing and singing radiated throughout the crisp evening air of Thurston Avenue’s 500 block last Friday for the LLC's annual Bienvenidos BBQ
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Ongoing research projects include humanities and social science scholars affiliated with the Latina/o Studies Program at Cornell. Research focuses on the diverse Latino communities in the United States, and engage questions about community histories, im/migration, politics, labor, education, language and identity, health, literature, art and performance.
Research Destinations
Spotlights on Faculty Research
Latina/o Studies faculty research at Cornell spans across many disciplines from history, sociology, anthropology, literature and language to government, performance studies, education, music and more. These are a few highlights of current research:
Latina/o Studies Program News
Hispanic Heritage Month & Cine con Cultura Film Festival
The Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County together with collaborators from Ithaca College, Cornell University, Cornell Cinema and community partners come together to celebrate 2025 Hispanic Heritage Month. This month long celebration will include the 11th annual Cine con Cultura Latinx Film Fe...
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Fall 2025 Nuestra Voz en español/Spanish Conversation Hour
Nuestra Voz en español will continue this Fall 2025 semester on Thursdays from 4 to 5 pm starting on September 18th, 2025.
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Latinx Microtheater Festival comes to Cornell and downtown Ithaca
Call for proposals for the Latinx Microtheater Festival. The deadline for submission is October 15th.
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Dr. Evelyn Ambríz '11 and '15 joins Latina/o Studies
Latina/o Studies welcomes Dr. Ambriz this academic year as a Visiting Scholar. She will collaborate with Dr. Debra Castillo to explore mentoring dynamics in the humanities and social sciences, fields where research is often solitary and identity development is deeply entangled with academic inquiry....
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Engaged Opportunity Grants connect students with hands-on community projects
The David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement awarded nine grants to a diverse array of projects that connect classroom learning with hands-on collaboration.
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Fall 2025 Latina/o Studies course offerings
For the 2025 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.
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