Latinx Heritage Month 2025
As we look ahead to Latinx Heritage Month, we:
- Recognize our Chicanx and Latinx students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community partners.
- Honor the scholarship, creative expression, and collaborations that originate from and engage with Chicanx and Latinx studies.
- Invite all members of our community to learn about this important work by reading these stories, taking classes, attending events, and more.
Meet the Scholars
Learn about a few of the things CLA's Chicanx and Latinx students, alumni, and faculty are up to.
The Pew Charitable Trusts announced the 22 researchers joining the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences, including our own Dr. Maria Nieves-Colón.
Read “Maria Nieves-Colón Joins the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences”
PhD candidate Linda Parranto Vital trades theory for practice, supporting domestic violence survivors and discovering her true calling in the process.
Read “Legal Lessons: A Political Scientist's Dive into Domestic Violence Advocacy”
Excellence in Teaching & Community Engagement
The medical Spanish minor equips future healthcare professionals to provide empathetic and culturally appropriate care to more members of our community.
She doesn’t just teach. She inspires. Meet Marisol Galicia Estevez, recipient of CLA’s 2025 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Read “Marisol Galicia Estevez Receives CLA’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award”
The Chicano Latino High School Leadership Program incorporated expression, identity, community, and leadership into one experience for a group of high school students.
Professor Jessica Lopez Lyman has been recognized for her outstanding commitment to community engagement.
Read "Jessica Lopez Lyman Wins 2024 Outstanding Community Service Award"
The Jesús Estrada-Peréz Memorial Fellowship
Estrada-Pérez was awarded his PhD posthumously in 2016. A fellowship in his name provides summer support for graduate students.
Celebrating the legacy of scholar and activist Jesús Estrada-Pérez, this fund provides fellowships for graduate students whose work engages some aspect of queer Latinx artistic production, cultural studies, social justice issues, and related interdisciplinary theories.
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Hispanic Issues
A refereed scholarly series devoted to the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures—including literary criticism and historiography, Hispanic cultural studies, human rights, Hispanic linguistics, and other areas of inquiry. Each publication stresses collaborative research, drawing on a network of scholars from the United States and abroad.
CLA Resources
National Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month
Explore campus resources, scholarships, and events for hispanic and latine students, staff and faculty.
Save the Date
In-Person Event, September 24, 2025
5th Annual Ramona Arreguín de Rosales Lecture: Somewhere We Are Human
The Department of Chicano & Latino Studies' 5th annual Ramona Arreguín de Rosales Lecture is on September 24, 2025, presented by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca.
September 9 – December 6, 2025
Vaivén: 21st-Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora
The Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, in association with Hidrante, San Juan, is proud to present Vaivén: 21st-Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora, a multidisciplinary exhibition spanning twenty-five years of Puerto Rican artistic production from forty-three artists working in Puerto Rico and its US diaspora. Derived from Spanish for “back-and-forth movement,” vaivén is most associated with the supposed ease at which Puerto Ricans migrate between the United States and Puerto Rico. Beyond the comings and goings of travel, this word names decades of physical and cultural ebb and flow that have resulted in more persons of Puerto Rican descent living across the fifty United States than in Puerto Rico itself. In turn, to be Puerto Rican is to be inextricably linked to diaspora, Black and Caribbean epistemologies, and a constant reimagining of home and belonging.
