Local creatives weave together art and action with month-long Orozco Gallery exhibit
“Art is therapy,” Ospina said. “I turn to art when I need to understand my feelings.”
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
María Cristina García receives a Lifetime Achievement Award
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to María Cristina García in recognition of her service to the Society and her outstanding scholarly contributions to the fields of immigration and ethnic history.
What does the Latina/o Studies Program mean to our students?
"What I like best about LSP is the staff; they make the space a second home for me. Their constant engagement with students and their commitment to fostering open community is felt throughout campus. They welcome anyone warmly, putting their best forward not only for the interns that work here, but also the students that visit."
Héctor Abruña, long-time supporter of Latina/o Studies, honored for chemistry in the public interest
For his work in energy storage and power generation, Héctor D. Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) has received the 2026 Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society.