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LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections raises awareness of past and current issues affecting Latin America and U.S. Latina/o communities through its world-class collections, globalized higher education, research, international exchange, and public programs.
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Summer Reading
In "Las botas de la Lola," author Fátima Valdivia (LLILAS PhD candidate) writes a compelling crónica based on events she experienced during her research. This Spanish-language story was originally published in the 2021–22 edition of Portal magazine. (Artwork: Erika Castillo Licea)
LLILAS BENSON NEWS
Announcing the Official Gloria E. Anzaldúa Website
Sponsored by the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Literary Trust, this new website offers resources and community for people wanting to learn more about Anzaldúa and her work. The Benson Latin American Collection is repository of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Papers. (Image: K. Kendall, CC 2.0 generic license)
FACULTY NEWS
Professor Ricardo Ainslie on the History of the Name Uvalde, and Its Pronunciation
Ricardo Ainslie, chair of the LLILAS Benson Mexico Center and professor in the UT Austin College of Education, was interviewed for this NPR story about language in Latino or Hispanic communities.
Professor Paola Canova receives Fulbright Scholar Award
Congratulations to Professor Paola Canova (LLILAS / Anthropology), who has won a Fulbright to carry out research this year in the Gran Chaco region of Paraguay. Her work will focus on how ranching expansion is remapping the environmental and social landscape. Read more here.
 Study Shows How Legacy of Colonialism Influences Science in the Caribbean
Professor Melissa Kemp, (Integrative Biology) of the Kemp Lab @ UT Austin, is part of a team of international researchers who have published a study analyzing how the legacy of colonialism remains deeply entrenched within scientific practice across the Caribbean archipelago.
STUDENT & ALUMNI NEWS
Janette Núñez Heads to Michigan State for Librarian Position
Núñez, a recent graduate of the LLILAS dual master's program with Information Sciences (iSchool), will be the new Latin American and Caribbean Studies Librarian at Michigan State University. Núñez was a special collections graduate research assistant at the Benson Latin American Collection and co-curator of the exhibition Martín Fierro: From Marginal Outlaw to National Symbol, on view in the Benson Rare Books Reading Room.
Diego A. Godoy Takes Bibliographer Position at Duke University
Godoy, a PhD candidate in Latin American history at UT Austin, will be the Bibliographer for Latin American, Iberian and Latino Studies at Duke University. He was the Castañeda Graduate Research Assistant at the Benson Collection. An engaging writer, he was a contributor to Portal magazine, Not Even Past, and the UT Libraries TexLibris blog. Read: "Inside the Agrasánchez Mexican Cinema Collection" and "Confessions of an Archives Convert."
2021-2022 FACULTY AWARDS
Faculty Research Leave
The purpose of the Faculty Research Leave is to provide LLILAS faculty with the opportunity to engage in productive and creative intellectual projects, otherwise impossible to achieve during the course of the academic year.
Lina Del Castillo
Professor Del Castillo (LLILAS / History) will conduct research for the project "Colombia’s Paper Empire: Cosmopolitanism, Print Culture, and Geopolitics in the Age of Revolution." This is the first LLILAS Faculty Research Leave grant of 2022.
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