Academic Year News Page
News from the 2022-2023 Academic Year
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BIC Announces New Language Access Collaborative
August 3, 2022Building Integrated Communities is delighted to announce a call for applications for the new Local Government Language Access Collaborative, a one-year interactive course designed to build capacity for North Carolina local governments to communicate with residents in community languages.
US Department of Education NRC and FLAS Grants
August 16, 2022The UNC-Duke Consortium is among a select group of academic programs awarded Title VI funding from the U.S. Department of Education for the 2022-2025 grant cycle.
UNC-Duke Consortium Bridges Latin American Community
September 21, 2022Congratulations to Professor Cynthia Radding!
September 22, 2022All of us at ISA join the friends and colleagues of Cynthia Radding (History) in congratulating her on the publication of her new book, Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in North New Spain (University of Arizona Press)
Job opening: Outreach Coordinator
September 30, 2022We are hiring an Outreach Coordinator
We are hiring!
October 28, 2022ISA’s Building Integrated Communities program is excited to hire two full-time bilingual positions and expand our team. The positions are based at UNC Chapel Hill and are grant-funded for a three year period with health insurance and benefits.
Congratulations Marlon William Londoño!
November 10, 2022Congratulations to Oswaldo Estrada
December 5, 2022Welcome to Skylar Zee—New Outreach Program Coordinator
January 5, 2023Skylar Zee joins us as the new Outreach Coordinator for the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University
Welcome to Susan Clifford —New Language Access Coordinator
January 31, 2023Susan Clifford joins us as the Language Access Coordinator for the Building Integrated Communities initiative at ISA.
Welcome to Emily Spangenberg—New Bilingual Program Coordinator
January 31, 2023Emily Spangenberg joins us at the Bilingual Program Coordinator for the Building Integrated Communities Initiative at ISA.
Congratulations, Dominican Jazz Project!
February 2, 2023ISA congratulates Stephen Anderson and the DJP for winning two awards at the third annual Premios Indie Dominicano.
Congratulations Pedro Lopes de Almeida!
May 5, 2023Pedro Lopes de Almeida (Romance Studies) receives the 2023 Faculty and Postdoctoral LGBTQIA+ Advocacy Award from the UNC LGBT Center
Congratulations Andreina Malki!
May 5, 2023Andreina Malki selected as a 2023 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Innovation Fellow!
LTAM Major wins a Fulbright
May 8, 2023Chlesea Ramsey, Latin American Studies Major 2023, wins a Fulbright.
From the Director
June 12, 2023With the memory of Commencement 2023 still fresh in our thoughts, we at the Institute for the Study of the Americas look back upon Academic Year 2022-2023 and give ourselves permission to strike a self-satisfied pose with the achievements of year-long planning and successfully executed programming.