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Alejandro Prado Receives the Ford Foundation Award!

Award Recipient: Alejandro Prado Award Date: March 30, 2021

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Alejandro Prado for receiving the Ford Foundation Dissertation Award from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in support of his dissertation project, “Chicanx Material Conditions: Chicanidad and the ‘Rise of China,’ Global Capitalism, International Solidarity in 21st Century Los Angeles, California.”

About the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program:

The Latinx Public Voice

"In Good Company: The Latinx Public Voice" a biweekly series of talks. Check this page for more information.

The Underground Railroad Reconsidered: Freedom Fighters and Liberation in Mexican Destinations

The UCSB Departments of Black Studies and Chicana and Chicano Studies will present colloquium speaker Maria Esther Hammack from UT Austin on March 3, 2021 at 6PM.

Congratulations, Professor Micaela Díaz-Sánchez!

Award Recipient: Micaela Díaz-Sánchez Award Date: January 19, 2021

Congratulations Professor Micaela Díaz-Sánchez!

Professor Díaz-Sánchz is the recipient of the 2021 Antonia I. Castañada Prize fro mthe National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies for her chapter "“Rebozos, Huipiles, y ¿Qué?: Chicana Self-Fashioning in the Academy," published in the text meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self- Adornment, and Identity Construction (UT Press, 2020). 

Call for Proposal - Global Carceral States International Conference

Call For Proposals: International Conference

May 21 – 22, 2021 (Online)

Global Carceral States: Violence, Transgressions and Technologies of Imprisonment

Congratulations Alejandro Prado!

The Chicana and Chicano Studies Department congratulates Alejandro Prado for receiving the 2021 NACCS Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio.

Message from the Chair: December 2020

Please review the message from the Chair via the video below (transcription to follow soon):

GRADUATE ADMISSIONS DEADLINE EXTENSION

Message from the Graduate Program Advisor,

Due to the recent network outage affecting the online application eApp for Graduate school applications and App Review for department graduate committees, the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department has requested and was approved of an extension for applications submitted to our graduate program.

The new deadline for graduate applications is: 

Tuesday, 22 December 2020 at 11:59 PM PST