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A Bulletin of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program
No. 1
Words from our New Director
As the new Director of our Latin American and Latino
Studies Program I am delighted to share with you our
first program newsletter. We would like to invite you to
learn more about our students, faculty and alumni, as
well as our program’s mission, scholarship, curriculum
and community involvement. Our main objective is to
provide students a unique, in-depth and interdisciplinary
education that combines the study of Latin America and
Latino communities. Students work directly with faculty
who engage in research that studies pressing cultural,
social, economic and political issues and processes that
shape and are shaped by the lives Latin Americans and
Latin@s and the US.
Our faculty’s research interests are broad, ranging from
the representation of nation, race, gender and labor in
film, colonial political discourse and social resistance,
social structures and religious rituals among the Maya,
and rural development and ecology in Mexico, to Latina
reproductive rights, youth activism, transnational Cuban
migration, globalization and labor strategies of women
in Brazil, Mexican hometown associations, and local,
national and global immigrant rights struggles. Our curriculum brings together scholarship from the humanities
and social sciences to provide students with a broad exposure to cutting-edge questions of race, nationality,
gender, migration, social movements, civic engagement,
globalization, precarity and inequality.
I would like to thank former director Nena Torres for her
arduous work in developing LALS in new directions.
Among her initiatives are the creation and implementation of our Master’s Program (now in its third year); the
spearheading of our graduate internship program; the
affiliation with the Inter-University Program for Latino
Research and the subsequent Siglo XXI Conference at
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UIC; and the support and sponsorship of a wide and rich
range of programs, research initiatives and events in
transnational, music, migration, civic engagement, and
human rights among others.
In the years ahead I hope to help our program expand
opportunities for students through new initiatives. These
include creating a LALS study-abroad summer program
in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico; developing a scholarship fund to help fund tuition, books, study abroad,
and research-related travel; and working with other campus units to help UIC become a Hispanic-serving institution and apply for federal development grants. We also
plan to reconnect with LALS alumni and host our 40th
anniversary event next year, strengthening connections
among faculty, students, alumni and friends of LALS.
Additionally, we are conducting an extensive curriculum
revision and recruiting more majors. Finally, we have
initiated two programming initiatives, graduate student
brown bag lectures, and Spring semester themes. In
Spring 2014 our theme will be precarity. Throughout the
term we will explore the connections between precarity
and labor, migration, gender and sexuality, and environmental issues.
Inside this issue:
Words from our New Director
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Featured Faculty
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New Director
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Featured Alumnus
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Alumni News
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Faculty News
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Opportunities
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IUPLR
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LALS Events
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A Bulletin of the Latin
American and Latino
Featured Faculty Member-Visiting Assistant Professor Alex E. Chavez
Alex E. Chávez
My ethnographic research on huapango arribeño—a
vernacular string-music from the states of Guanajuato, Querétaro, and San Luís Potosí, Mexico—has
recently expanded into the realm of public anthropology. In collaboration with Daniel Sheehy—director of
the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage—I am presently serving as lead consultant for a
Smithsonian Folkways recording of huapango arribeño
for inclusion in the world-renowned Tradiciones music
series, bringing an anthropological perspective on this
music to a broader audience. My involvement in this
project dovetails with work on my book manuscript,
¡Viva el Huapango!: A Cultural Poetics of Music and Migrant Life Across Transnational Mexico, the first extended ethnographic study of huapango arribeño to be
written. Suffused with the experiences of music practitioners who are situated firmly within the communities for which they perform in Mexico and the United
States, ¡Viva el Huapango! reveals how huapango arribeño convenes sites for the suturing of subjectivities
en route. Specifically, I examine how its elaborate mu-
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sico-poetic expression dynamically shifts alongside
changing politics and ways of living as a means of connecting lives across the US-Mexico border formation.
Given my relationships within the huapango world
and expertise on the topic, I actively recruited Guillermo Velázquez y Los Leones de la Sierra de Xichú for the
recording, with whom I recently travelled to both
Querétaro and Guanajuato to conduct pre-production
work. A well-known ensemble, Velázquez and Los
Leones have performed across Mexico and the world,
carrying this music to a wider audience, and as part of
their artistic efforts, they have consistently spoken to
the issue of U.S.–Mexico migration through their music. A critical voice for the people of the region, they
are poised to provide an innovative and highly virtuosic contribution to the vastly respected and heard
platform of the Smithsonian’s Tradiciones series. The
recording is scheduled to take place in early 2014 and
a release date will follow.
Alex E. Chávez with Guillermo Velázquez in Xichú, Guanajuato
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Introducing Our New Director of Undergraduate Studies: Xóchitl Bada
Xóchitl Bada
I was appointed as the new DUS in the summer of
2013. I joined the program in Latin American and Latino Studies as an assistant professor in the fall of
2008. In the past few months, I have been busy selecting the artwork for my upcoming book on Mexican
hometown associations. I look forward to an exciting
academic year. My new research project focuses on
transnational labor advocacy. I am studying consular
strategies to defend immigrant worker rights across
several cities in the United States. This fall, I am teaching two courses, Introduction to Latino Urban Issues
(LALS 103) and Latin American Immigration to the
United States (LALS 433). I was born in Puebla and
grew up in Veracruz, Mexico. I enjoy living in Chicago´s Hyde Park neighborhood with my husband
Claudio and my daughter Macarena. I look forward to
learning more about our students. In the spring of
2014, we will be implementing changes to the curriculum to fulfill the expectations of all those who take our
interdisciplinary courses in LALS. If you have any ideas
for new courses or topics you would like us to add to
our curriculum, please come and visit. You can find me
at University Hall, suite 1519. I am in the process of
revising our curriculum and we expect to add new
courses and modify some of our current offerings to
better serve the needs and interests of our majors and
minors. We recently completed a survey of the students we serve and we will analyze the results in our
next curriculum committee meeting. We have plans to
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publish a summary of the main findings in the next
newsletter. Stay tuned. Our major in Latin American
and Latino Studies is one of the few interdisciplinary
programs in the country that is at the cutting-edge of
combining the study of Latinos from an ethnic perspective with an understanding of the countries they
are coming from. We strive to provide students with
an understanding of the histories, cultures, and contemporary circumstances of Latin Americans and Latinos in the United States using interdisciplinary approaches. Courses for our major and minor cover Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America as
well as social and political processes among Latino
groups in Chicago and throughout the United States.
A major or minor in LALS can serve as a useful basis to
pursue graduate studies, public service, and other professional careers related to Latin America or U.S. Latinos.
“In the spring of 2014, we will be
implementing changes to the curriculum...”
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Featured Alumnus: Interview with Mario Lucero, M.A. Class of 2013
Mario Lucero, creator of the new LALS logo
What did you study as an undergrad?
Art and Design at the Illinois Institute of Art
What was your goal upon entering the program? Did
this change as you went through the program?
Before coming to grad school, my art was focused on
Latin American and Mesoamerican mythology, Maya
culture, and was very politically infused. That kind of art
requires research, not only to understand where it is going, but also to make it more powerful. I entered the
Master’s program to learn even more about the area and
in a more structured setting, to further inform my art.
While my initial goal was to develop my understanding
of these topics for my art, I got lost (in a good way!) in
the interdisciplinary nature of the program—Moving
away from creating art for aesthetics to understanding
art as part of a larger movement. It became less about
me creating art and more about getting to know how
people use art and the creative process to further movements and politics.
Where do you work now?
I am currently the Assistant Program Director for the
Rafael Cintrón Latino Cultural Center at UIC.
How did the LALS program prepare you for your job/
career/life?
As a graduate student, I began working for the Cultural
Center as a graphic designer and upon completing my
Master’s I was promoted to Assistant Director. LALS was
instrumental in preparing me for my current position: it’s
almost as if LALS provided the theory, and LCC put it
into practice. One of the strengths of the LALS program
is the interdisciplinary nature of the program. Using the
various interdisciplinary lenses—political, or sociological
for example—to analyze problems, gave me the background to really be able to perform at my current job. All
of these skills come into play in my current position
when, for example, I lead students in conversations regarding the murals at the LCC. Through the Arts-Based
Civic Dialogues, I use the LCC’s mural to engage students
in conversations about immigration, poverty, etc. The
interdisciplinary nature of LALS prepared me to be able
to confidently address the multiple issues represented in
the mural.
What is the greatest lesson you learned from your
time at LALS?
This is a hard question since throughout my time in the
program I went through so many mini-transformations.
If I had to choose one lesson that has stayed with me it
would be to challenge everything you think you already
know. This program opens up multiple perspectives, and
through that you go through a process of deconstructing
not only broader society, but also yourself, your beliefs,
etc.
What would you say to a student who is considering
applying for an LALS major/minor?
I used to get this question all of the time from my students, especially those who are in fields like engineering.
Just by looking at the demographics, Latinos are set to
be the largest group in the US by 2050. A degree in LALS
will prepare you to work in any sector, private, public,
non-profit by understanding the complex set of issues
affecting the Latino community. Rather than looking for
a job that has LALS in the title, students need to see that
LALS is everywhere as Latinos are integrated into every
part of society. The interdisciplinary nature of the degree
allows you to look at the world through a broad spectrum of possibilities, not just on specific field. A degree in
LALS can take you in any direction.
Do you have any advice to graduates of LALS?
My advice for undergraduates would be to recognize the
power in their own voice and get involved in their communities. Students need to develop relationships
throughout campus and get involved. No one is going to
stop them and asked them what they want—They need
to speak up and organize. This is one of the main things I
got from the department: a sense of empowerment to
start speaking up. The program reinforces your own
sense of identity.
Interview conducted by: Amalia Pallares
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Alumni News
Cynthia Brito (M.A. 2012)
Cynthia Brito is a civil rights paralegal for a nationally recognized Chicago law firm that works on high
profile cases nationally and internationally. She is
also the co-founder of Latin@ Youth Action League,
a youth-led organization that focuses on undocumented youth, reproductive health, and building
youth activism. Cynthia has been recognized as activist of the month by the National Latina Institute
for Reproductive Health. She is
also the President of Dare to
Dream: Get Educated, an annual
conference for Latina teens.
Abraham Ramirez (M.A. 2013)
Abraham is currently assisting at a friend’s consulting
business. The business works with predominantly nonprofit community clinics or foundations to help with
marketing and advertising to helping them organize
childhood diabetes prevention programs at Los Angeles
elementary schools.
Mario Lucero (M.A. 2013)
Mario is the Assistant Program
Mario and Cynthia
Director of the Rafael Cintrón
Ortiz Latino Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently working on a guide
for Arts-Based Civic Dialogue that uses the center’s
mural "El Despertar de las Americas" (The Awakening
of the Americas) as a tool for civic engagement. He
is featured in this newsletter.
Allison James (M.A. 2013)
Allison is a case worker specializing in family unification
for Heartland Alliance, a human rights non-profit organization that supports underAllison James
served communities, focusing
on housing, health care, economic opportunities and social justice. She works on
-site at a youth detention center analyzing cases of
unaccompanied minors who were apprehended at
the U.S.-Mexico border. She works toward having
the minors released from detention and reunifying
them with family in the U.S. or in their country of
origin, depending on the best interests of the child.
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Tania Unzueta
Tania Unzueta (M.A. 2012)
Tania is full-time national organizer and immigration
strategist at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. She works with day laborers and immigrant rights
groups around the country, organizing against deportations and strategizing to push forward federal, state and
local policy to work for low-income immigrant communities. One of the organization’s latest actions was coordinating a group of seven undocumented workers and
mothers who handcuffed themselves to the White
House fence to urge President Obama to stop deportations. She has also co-written an article with Hinda Seif.
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Faculty News
Christopher Boyer presented the paper “A Concession to Modernity: Forestry and Development in Mid-Twentieth Century Michoacán” at the Latin American Studies Association Conference in May. He also presented “The Ineluctability of Chihuahuan Railroads” at the conference
Latin American History in Chicago: The Katzworth Years; El desarrollo precoz del manejo forestal comunitario y su presunto ocaso, 1934-1954. At the conference Las ecologías de la ciudad y
el campo: La historia ambiental de México. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, Mexico City; and Anthropologists, Indians, and the Forests of Northern Mexico at the American Society for Environmental History, Toronto. He also finished his book manuscript Political Landscapes: A Social History of Mexican Forests, from Duke University Press forthcoming. He recently published a book review about Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America by John Tutino. In Social
History 38, no. 1 (January 2013), 100-2. We are proud to announce that Christopher recently won the Deena Allen
Teaching Award granted by the Department of History at UIC, 2013
Christopher Boyer
Simone Buechler pre-
Alex E. Chavez
Alex E. Chavez will be presenting from “From Potosí to Tennessee: Clandestine Desires and the Poetic
Border,” American Folklore Society (AFS) Annual
Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island this October. He
also completed two articles: Sones y Huapangos:
Musique de la Huasteca et de Veracruz, Mexique
(CORDAE/LaTalvera). Latin American Music Review/
Revista de Música Latinoamerica 34(2) (in press 2014);
and Review, Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and
Reality (Anita González). Latin AmericanMusic Review/
Revista de Música Latinoamerica 34(1) (in press 2013)
Alex won the Smithsonian Folkways Nonprofit Record
Label of the Smithsonian Insitution Folkways Recordings Research Grant (see the featured faculty section above to learn more).
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sented the paper “Vast Improvements between 1998
and 2013 for Self-employed
Women and Microentrepreneurs in São Paulo, Brazil?” The paper was preSimone Buechler
sented at the session: Job
quality and creative labor in Argentina and Brazil at the
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress
in May. She also presented “The Significance of Economic Growth, Declining Inequality Statistics, and Social Policies for Faveladas in São Paulo, Brazil” at the
São Paulo Symposium at the University of Chicago,
where she also provided comments on the papers presented in the panel Development Aesthetics in May.
She also presented “Declining Levels of Inequality in
Brazil: The Significance for Low-Income Women in
São Paulo.” in the Comparative Urbanisms Seminar
Series at the Great Cities Institute at University of Illinois at Chicago in May. In May she also completed he
Great Cities Institute Scholar fellowship to study Declining Levels of Inequality in Brazil:The Significance for
Low-income Women in São Paulo. Simone was also
awarded a 2012/2013 OSSR Seed Grant by the Office of
Social Science Research (OSSR), UIC, for research in
São Paulo, Brazil: Declining Levels of Inequality in Brazil: Oral Histories of Low-Income Women in São Paulo.
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Faculty News (continued)
Ralph Cintron published “60
Years of Migration: Puerto Ricans”
in Chicagoland Puerto Rican
Agenda/Voorhees Center, UIC (90
pages), with co PO Maura MoroTorn; and “Neoliberalism and the
Commons” in Cultural Economy
Ralph Cintron
with David Bleeden, Steve
Ziliak (in press) He also received a Humanities Institute Fellowship, 2013-2014 to develop his project
“Democracy as Fetish” . Ralph was also selected to
participate in the Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, 2015, where he will be the organizer of a
5-day seminar on rhetoric and ethnography.
Elena Gutierrez
Elena Gutierrez was on sabbatical for the 2012-2013
academic year. During the period she worked as on the
high-impact report “Bringing Families out of Captivity:
the Need to Repeal the Calworks Maximum Family
Grant Rule". In September she was given an Access
Award by Access Womens’ Justice (based in Northern
California) for her research on this report.
Joel Palka investigated arNilda Flores-Gonzalez published the book Immigrant
Women Workers in the Neoliberal
Age. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013, which, she coedited with Anna R. Guevarra,
Maura Toro-Morn and Grace
Chang (Editors). Her chapters in
this book include the Introduction Nilda Flores-Gonzalez
(with Maura Moro-Torn and Anna
R. Guevarra) and FLOResiste: Transnational Labor,
Motherhood and Activism (with Ruth Gomberg). Her
conference presentations include “Rethinking Ethnic
and Racial Identity among Latino Youth.” presented
at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Meetings, New York City, August 2013; “The ‘Other’
Race: Latino Youth Making Sense of Ethnicity and
Race” at the American Sociological Association Meetings, New York City, August 2013; and “I don’t think I
am American. I would say I am Mexican: Identity and
the Transnational lives of the Second Generation” at
the Council of Contemporary Families Conference,
Miami, FL. April 2013. In August Nilda FloresGonzalez and Pamela Anne Quiroz (LALS Affiliate and
Professor of Education and Sociology) were selected
to be the new editors of the Social Problems Journal.
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chaeological sites of early
Maya civilization in addition to
Protohistoric unconquered
Maya settlements at Lake
Mensabak (Metzabok), Chiapas, Mexico, with several
Joel Palka
other researchers and graduate students from UIC and
other institutions in the U.S. and Mexico. The research
was part of a NEH Collaborative Grant that he received
in 2009. They excavated an ancestor shrine containing
human skeletons where Maya people have been burning
offerings for the last 500 years. The elders of the Lacandon Maya commuity where the researchers lived continued similar practices up until 1980, so they are able to
learn about Maya religion from them. They discovered
extensive canal and pond systems near the lake shore
and Dr. Palka is working on dating them and learning
about their functions. They also mapped households
and temples at a large early Maya site (A.D. 200) and
two Protohistoric Maya population centers (A.D. 1500),
one with fortifications, to learn about changing Maya
demography, warfare, and politics. He finished his book
Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes over the summer,
which will be published in the Landscape Archaeologies
of the Americas Series by the University of New Mexico
Press early in 2014.
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Faculty News (continued)
Amalia Pallares presented "Bringing Family Back in: Undocumented
Amalia Pallares
Youth and Parent Activism" delivered at the Council on Contemporary Family's 16th Annual conference "Immigrant Families as they
really are". April 4-5, University of Miami; "Symbolizing Family, Reconstructing Worthiness" prepared for Panel "Deserving Immigrants"
at the Law and Society Association Meeting, Boston, May 30- June;
and "Defining Family: Immigrant Rights Activism in Chicago" keynote
lecture at the Women of Distinction Program, College of
DuPage.Commentator on book "Ant-immigrant Sentiments, Actions
and Policies" edited by Monica Varea, UNAM-Chicago, April. This
summer she traveled to Ecuador, where she updated “Uncivil Acts
and Foundational Moments: the Case of Ecuador”,a book chapter accepted for publication in Sonia Alvarez, Juan Carlos Baoicchi, Agustin
Flores and Millie Thayer, (eds) Interrogating Civil Society in Latin
America, (Duke University Press, 2014) In September she finished her
book manuscript: Families Untied: immigrant activism and the politics of non-Citizenship.
Maria de los Angeles “Nena” Torres ended her seven
-year term as Director of Latin American and Latino
Studies and initiated her five year terms as the new Director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research in July. As Director of IUPLR she will be responsible for spearheading national research collaborations
among Latino Studies scholars and disseminating research results with high scholarly and policy impact. Additionally her book Citizens in the Present: Civically Engaged Youth in the Americas, University of Illinois Press,
2013, co-written with Irene Rizzini and Norma del Rio ,
was released. She asked published the Chapter “Civically
engaged Latino Youth”, Immigration and the Border:
Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century, edited by
David Leal and Jose Limon, Notre Dame University
Press, 2013.
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Maria de los Angeles Torres
Inter-University Program for Latino Research
University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
412 S. Peoria St. 3rd Floor (MC347)
Chicago, IL. 60607
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Prof. Javier Villaflores was a research fellow at the Institute
for the Humanities at UIC for the academic year 2012-2013. He
spent most of the year working on a book manuscript on a history of trust and public faith in Bourbon Mexico. He also used
part of his research leave to finish editing a volume on a history
of emotions in colonial Mexico with Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
(Emotions and Daily LIfe in Mexico. Forthcoming University of
New Mexico Press, 2014). He also translated and revised two
articles for edited volumes in Spanish, and finished another
piece on the burning of Mexico´s National Film Archive. This last
piece will be included in a volume coedited with Carlos Aguirre
on the Destruction and Recovery of Archives in Latin America
(Forthcoming, Editorial A Contracorriente, 2014). He also did
presentations on his research at the Institute for the Humanities,
and the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American History
(RMCLAS), and served as a commentator at RMCLAS, and the
American Ethnohistory Conference. He received a fellowship
from the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research to finish research for my piece on the destruction of Mexico´s Film Archive.
He is currently serving the program as the new Director of
Graduate Studies and Chair of the Programming Committee.
Professor Javier Villaflores
Javier Villaflores is the new
Director of Graduate Studies
and Chair of the Programming
Committee
Salome Skvirsky co-organized the panel Processing
Salome Skvirsky
November 2013
Development: Cinematic and Televisual Negotiations of
Latin American Modernity in the Latin American Studies
Association Conference and presented the paper Introducing the Latin American Process Film. She also presented the paper Bodily Services: on Parque Vía and
Jeanne Dielman at the Society for Cinema and Media
Studies Conference. She also published "The postcolonial city symphony film and the 'ruins' of Suite Habana"
in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation
and Culture. 19:3-4 (August 2013), a special double issue
on Latin American political documentary.
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Opportunities
U.S.PIRG is a nationwide network of state-based public interest advocacy groups. This year we are hiring
100 graduating college students for our jobs across
the country. We work on a range of public interest issues, from protecting and improving public health to
making college more affordable, to working for more
and better public transportation—including highspeed rail. We are currently looking for smart, talented college graduates to work with us as campus organizers and in our fellowship program.
For more information contact:
U.S. Public Interest Research Group:
The Federation of State Pirgs
44 Winter St.,4th Floor
Boston, MA. 02108
jobs.uspirg.org/home
The USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program seeks to attract
outstanding young people who are interested in pursuing careers in the Foreign Service of the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID). If you
want to work on the front lines of some of the most
pressing global challenges of our times — poverty,
hunger, injustice, disease, environmental degradation,
climate change, conflict and violent extremism – the
Foreign Service of the U.S. Agency for International
Development provides an opportunity to advance U.S.
foreign policy interests and reflect the American people's compassion and support of human dignity. The
Payne Fellowship, which provides up to $90,000 in
benefits over two years for graduate school, internships, and professional development activities, provides a unique pathway to the USAID Foreign Service.
The Payne Fellowship encourages the application of
members of minority groups who have historically
been underrepresented in international development
careers and those with financial need.
For more information contact:
Donald M. Payne International Development Fellowship Program
[email protected]
2218 6th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20059
Tel: (202) 806-4367 or (877) 633-0002
Fax: (202) 806-5424
www.paynefellows.org
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Opportunities (continued)
The Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship &
Summer Enrichment Program
Promoting a positive U.S. presence in the world that reflects and respects the strength and diversity of America.
The Rangel Program is a collaborative effort between Howard University and the U.S. State Department that seeks to
attract and prepare outstanding young people for careers as diplomats in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department
of State. The program seeks individuals interested in helping to shape a freer, more secure and prosperous world
through formulating, representing, and implementing U.S. foreign policy. The Program encourages the application of
members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service and those with financial need.
There are two major components to the Rangel Program: an International Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program that
provides support for graduate school, professional development, and entry into the U.S. Foreign Service, and an undergraduate International Affairs Summer Enrichment Program that provides undergraduates with the opportunity to
enhance their skills, knowledge and understanding about U.S. foreign policy.
For more information contact:
[email protected]
2218 6th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20059
Tel: (202) 806-4367 or (877) 633-0002
Fax: (202) 806-5424
Patricia Scroggs, Director
[email protected]
James McDowell, Program Assistant
[email protected]
www.rangelprogram.org
IUPLR
After a hugely successful and well-attended welcoming party from UIC administration, the Inter-University
Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) proudly announces its thanks to all who supported its move to
the UIC campus! For the next five years, UIC will be
home to IUPLR — a national consortium of twentyfive university-based research centers focusing on Latinos. We thank Professor Gilberto Cardenas of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame for his prior fourteen years of service and leadership at IUPLR.
Prof. Maria de los Angeles Torres, the new Executive
Director, looks forward to the future plans of this
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A Rangel Fellow being accepted into the Graduate Program
growing consortium at UIC. For the last thirty years,
IUPLR has been at the forefront of promoting interdisciplinary research, including work on the economy,
politics, culture, art history, and immigration. It will
maintain a special partnership with the U.S. Census
Bureau, enabling IUPLR associates to engage in topicspecific research through trainings and unique access
to data. IUPLR also has an office in Washington D.C.
that works closely with policy makers.
The consortium has been dedicated to building research capacity through multiple programs including
one co-sponsored with the Smithsonian to train
graduate students in Museum Studies and an undergraduate policy program. For details visit iuplr.uic.edu
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LALS Events
LALS Graduate Students Brown Bag
LALS Open House
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Latin American and Latino Studies Program
invites you to their Master of Arts Program
Speaking for the Future: Statistics, Electoral
Demonstrations, and Latino Sleeping Giants
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Brown University
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 @ 11:00 am
1550 University Hall
in Latin American and Latino Studies
OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, November 21, 2013
4 to 6 p.m.
UH 1550 Conference Room
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
601 S. Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607
University of Illinois at Chicago
Latin American & Latino Studies Program
1525 University Hall
601 S. Morgan St. MC 219
Chicago, ILL 60607
Phone: (312) 996-2445 Fax: (312) 996-1796
http://www.uic.edu/las/lals
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• Learn about our interdisciplinary program
• Meet our faculty and affiliates
• Talk with current and past graduate students
• Enjoy light refreshments and good conversations
This event is in collaboration with the Graduate College.
For more information and to RSVP :
Call LALS at 312-996-2445 or email [email protected]