Academic Year News Page
News from the 2024-2025 Academic Year
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Southern Skies 2025
March 4, 2025Save the date for our annual Southern Skies/Cielos del Sur (Southern Skies) educational program that shares the important contributions of Latin American Indigenous communities’ astronomy, planetary science, and cosmology with public audiences and K-12 educators in North Carolina.
Amanda Thompson, Director of the Center for Galapagos Studies
February 19, 2025Congratulations to Amanda Thompson for being named the Director of the Center for Galapagos Studies!
Raúl Necochea wins 2025 University Teaching Award
January 22, 2025ISA congratulates ISA Advisory Board member and School of Medicine Professor Raúl Necochea (Social Medicine) for receiving the Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalureate Instruction
National Endowment for the Humanities supports New Roots
January 21, 2025The Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC-Chapel Hill was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the New Roots/Nuevas Raíces Oral Histories. The funding will support the New Roots initiative “Stories of Resilience: Latino Community Health Workers and COVID Response in North Carolina.”
Professor Diego Riveros-Iregui receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
January 15, 2025ISA Advisory Board member and the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment Faculty, Diego Riveros-Iregui, will be honored with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
ISA Honors Teresa Chapa and Gabrielle Vail at Annual Dinner
December 17, 2024On December 5th, 2024, the Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) recognized Teresa Chapa and Gabrielle Vail for their outstanding contributions to the Institute and the broader North Carolina community
UNC Rural Research Awards
December 16, 2024UNC Rural and UNC Research recognize Dr. Laura Villa Torres and Dr. Courtney Woods for their community-campus partnerships through the UNC Rural Research and Engagement Award.
U.S. Presidential Election: Implications for Latin America by Paula Diaz
November 22, 2024ISA Student Staff and current political science major at UNC-CH writes an article for the Journal of Foreign Affairs at Carolina about the implications of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election for Latin America.
Call for Proposals: Latin America in Translation
November 22, 2024The Latin America in Translation Series is a joint initiative of the UNC and Duke Consortium, Duke University Press (DUP), and the University of North Carolina Press (UNCP). The Series translates and publishes in English outstanding books in a wide range of fields by important Latin American writers and scholars. It helps to further dialogue across academic communities in Latin America and the English-speaking world.
Heather Knorr teaches Spanish for engagement
November 13, 2024Students in Heather Knorr's SPAN 329 class practice using language skills by writing bilingual children's books.
Salsa: A Latin American Gardens Workshop
October 17, 2024The Consortium and The Hub Farm held a workshop for elementary Dual Language Instructors in Durham Public Schools in September 2024. The teacher participants spent the day at the outdoor learning farm. Speakers included Cindy Granados Evans, a registered dietician, and Maria Pacheco, owner of Cilantro Artisan Foods.
Latin American film festival opens new frontiers in storytelling
October 16, 2024This October, UNC and Duke University’s Latin American Studies Departments will hold their annual North Carolina Latin American Film Festival. The film festival showcases numerous Latin American feature-length films and short films, relating to this year’s theme, “Fronteras,” or “Frontiers” in English.
Applications for the Gussenhoven Fellow
October 9, 2024We seek early career applicants in the humanities and social sciences whose scholarship uses interdisciplinary approaches to Latin American and Caribbean Studies, especially in topics such as migration, inequality, human rights/rule of law, politics, environment, and/or afro-Latin American and Indigenous studies.