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An Afternoon with Damian: Nuclear Colonialism Through New Mexican Literature

Graduate student Damian Yazzie will be facilitating an hour-long session of community reading on the topic titled, “Nuclear Colonialism Through New Mexican Literature”. In providing historical and cultural context for which the New Mexican Literature becomes positioned in, he will provide a brief historiography of the specified locations affected by Nuclear Waste and Nuclear Testing throughout New Mexico, with accompanying images of locationally relevant sites affected.

Assistant Professor Giovanni Batz Awarded the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Thomas McGann Book Prize in Modern Latin American History

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Giovanni Batz who was awarded the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Thomas McGann Book Prize in Modern Latin American History. Assistant Professor Batz was awarded at the 72nd Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies in Ottawa, Canada on Saturday April 12. 

Horacio Roque Ramirez Memorial Symposium

The Horacio Roque Ramirez Memorial Symposium will feature speakers who will honor the life and legacy of Professor Horacio Roque Ramirez (1969-2015).

Dr. Roque Ramirez was a faculty member in the Department of Chicana/o Studies who passed December 2015. His ethnographic and archival research focused on Central Americans in the US, queer Latinx community life in San Francisco, and Latino sexuality and hope in an era of AIDS and deportation. At UCSB, he developed the courses “Central Americans in the U.S.” and “Salvadoran Diasporas”, among the first within the UC system. Read More

Professor Horacio Roque Ramírez

It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of our beloved colleague, and friend, Professor Horacio N. Roque Ramírez. He will be remembered as an engaging scholar, a true mentor, and a lively, friendly member of the Department of Chicano/a Studies.