The Office of Student Diversity and the LFSA celebrated graduating students at the Latinx Graduation!

On May 4, 2023 the LFSA hosted a Featured Authors Luncheon. The was the first event in UNLV’s history dedicated to honoring and celebrating Latinx faculty’s knowledge production. Thank you to the dozens of people who showed up to hear Latinx faculty discuss their recently published books:

• Michael Alarid (History)
  • Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860
• Carlos Dimas (History)
  • Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908
• Roberto Lovato (English)
  • Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas
• Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology)
  • Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times

This event was sponsored by the Latinx Faculty and Staff Alliance.

Michael Wilson (a human rights activist and a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation) and José Antonio Lucero (Associate Professor and Chair of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Department at the University of Washington) discussed the writing of their forthcoming book What Side Are You On? A Tohono O’odham Life Across Borders (University of North Carolina Press). If you would like to read more from them, please check out Mike Wilson’s 2017 interview with Ecololgies of Migrant Care or José Antonio Lucero’s 2022 article Friction, Conversation, and Contention: Prophetic Politics in the Tohono O’odham Borderlands (available open access through Cambridge University Press).

This event was sponsored by the Latinx Faculty and Staff Alliance, UNLV’s Department of English and the Black Mountain Institute.