LFSA Featured Authors Luncheon

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
Pictured from L to R: Brittany Paloma Fiedler (co-organizer), Michael Alarid (featured author), Carlos Dimas (featured author and co-organizer), Cassaundra Rodriguez (featured author), and Roberto Lovato (featured author)

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