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Fernanda Díaz-Basteris' edited book, Latinx Comics Studies, received the 2026 Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize at the Society’s annual conference hosted at The…
The Center for Ethnic Studies has announced its next round of funding for students affiliated with the center and its programs. Applications are currently live for the autumn Student Travel and…
The 2026 Festival Latino was hot in all possible ways! The music, food and lively community made the event a success, and the OSU booth volunteers offered nonstop engagement with community members…
Congrats to Dr. Paloma Martinez-Cruz, Program Director of Latinx Studies in the Center for Ethnic Studies and Professor of Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies in the Department of Spanish and…
The OSU Festival Latino team brought hard work, high energy and thoughtful engagement to the OSU outreach booth at Festival Latino in downtown Columbus on August 10-11, 2024. Representatives from…
The Latinx Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will host a table at the 2024 Festival Latino in downtown Columbus on August 10 and 11. This free, family-friendly event…
Congratulations to our winners in the Brutus Calavera coloring contest: Cooper M., Eda H., Juliana R., Brady B., Emily O., Jaxson R., Lucy P., Anika L., Carley P., and Janea M.!!!
Children…
Spring courses for Ethnic Studies are now posted on this site and on our program sites for your scheduling convenience. Find them all in one place on this website on the "Courses" page.
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The recipients of the Spring 2023 Center for Ethnic Studies Travel and Research Grants have reported on their research projects. They were asked to give a short account of how they used their…
The Center for Ethnic Studies is pleased to announce that Sampada Aranke, Associate Professor of Art History and Comparative Studies, is the new Associate Director of the Center.
Sampada's…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Ethnic Studies, the Humanities Institute, the Center for Latin American Studies and the OSU Athletic Department are excited to announce…
The Latinx Studies Program is pleased to name Inés Valdez as the recipient of the 2023 Excellence in Latinx Service award. Dr. Valdez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political…
Summer 2023 CES Courses
Are you looking for courses for Summer 2023? Ethnic Studies has plenty of options in all three of our programs.
For more information, email ethnicstudies@osu.edi,…
Congratulations to the recipients of the Autumn Student Travel and Research Grants! We received a record number of applications over this grant cycle, all an impressive array of projects and…
Congratulations to our winners in the Brutus Calavera coloring contest: Josie S., Bushra O., Caroline S., Ahmed A., Deven P., Isaac H., Grace L., Hadley F., Halle U., Audrey W.!!!
Children…
On Saturday, October 8, OSU Latinx Studies Program faculty members partnered with Latino Arts for Humanity (LAH), to produce the vibrant annual Day of the Dead Columbus celebration that takes…
Announcing the latest edition of the Latin@ Stories podcast. In this episode, Dr. Miranda Martinez, Associate Professor at the Ohio State University, talks to Elena Foulis about the make up of…
The Center of Ethnic Studies at Ohio State, which includes the American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Latino/a Studies Programs, sends our sympathies and solidarity to the family of…
CES Autumn 2022 Student Travel and Research Grants
The Center for Ethnic Studies is pleased to announce its travel and research grants program for the 2022-2023 academic year!
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The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Ethnic Studies, and the OSU Athletic Department announce a coloring contest for Día de los Muertos.
This coloring contest,…
Our new program director, Dr. Paloma Martinez-Cruz, welcomes us in the new academic year with the following message:
"I'm excited to be joining the Center for Ethnic Studies this year as…
We are thrilled to announce that Paloma Martinez-Cruz has been named Program Director of Latina/o Studies.
Paloma Martinez-Cruz, Ph.D. works in the area of contemporary hemispheric…
Latina/o Studies affiliate Elena Foulis has been named Associate Director of the Center for Ethnic Studies.
Dr. Elena Foulis is a student-centered educator with over 15 years of experience…
In August 2021, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández will join OSU as the Gregory Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law. Prof. García Hernández is the author…
On May 12, 2021 we witnessed the birth of AWANA Red de Artistas y Gestores Interculturales Comunitarios – AWANA Network of Intercultural Community Artists and Cultural…
The Latina/o Studies Program would like to acknowledge the Spring graduates from our minor program:
Serena Arteaga
Sofia Baena
Gabrielle Elders
Lidia Garcia Berrelle…
Center for Ethnic Studies invites eligible undergraduates and graduates to apply for the CES Interdisciplinary Programs Scholarship. The Scholarship is designed to support students who are…
Latina/o Studies Program affiliate Frederick Luis Aldama (Department of English) and Christopher González of Utah State won first place for the Best Nonfiction Multi-Author section of the 2020…
The Latina/o Studies Program extends congratulations to affiliates Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Elena Foulis, Glenn Martinez, and Paloma Martinez Cruz, along with director Inés Valdez for their recent…
Latina/o Studies is pleased to announce Professor Paloma Martines-Cruz, Marie Lerma, Victoria Barbosa Olivo, Gabrielle Elders, and Lucero Galan as the recipient of Latina/o Studies Awards.
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Dr. Elena Foulis, senior lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, received the Community Engaged Scholar Award for her work developing several initiatives, activities and courses that…
On March 4, 2020, Latina/o Studies held a workshop with Dr. Dinorah Sanchez-Loza. Dr. Sanchez-Loza's talk explored the political development occurring in and through two predominantly…
Professor Wendy Vogt's talk chronicled the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in shelters and other sites serving migrants traversing…
On October 18 and 19, 2019, various events were held to celebrate Día de los Muertos. On Friday, October 18, a roundtable conversation, "Moving Subjects: The Travels of Día de los Muertos (Day of…
On Wednesday, April 17th, the Center for Ethnic Studies celebrated the end of the school year by recognizing the work of faculty and students in our programs. Two students in Asian American…
The Roundtable featured Nely Rodriguez (Coalition of Immokalee Workers), Ximena Pedroza (Student Farmworker Alliance), and Professors Paloma Martinez-Cruz and Inés Valdez to reflect on the…
Free for all audiences
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Latino/a Studies Program; Center for Ethnic Studies; Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department; Department of Dance;…
A Conversation on Indigeneity, Ethnicity, and Race
Thursday, February 7, 2019
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Thompson Library 165
The Center for Ethnic Studies is happy to host this panel…
Workshop on Ohio Ethnic Studies
January 25, 2019
The Center for Ethnic Studies hosted a gathering of Latinx Studies and American Indian Studies scholars from across the state…
Listening To Puerto Rico
October 15, 2018
OSU Union, Buckeye Room, Third Floor
This event brought together faculty and students at OSU from several different departments to consider…
The story of the Midwest does not often delve into how, why, and when Latinx communities became part of this regional story. Eleven professors and graduate students across the Midwest have formed…
President Michael Drake was one of 200 college officials protesting the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) and asking for a "narrowly tailored solution" to the…
We are scholars committed to supporting Puerto Rico relief and recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. We join others who are increasing awareness of the humanitarian and…
In these heady political times, public scholarship by, from, and about Latinx populations is more urgent than ever. Building on decades of radical organizing and public intellectual activism by women…
Professor Inés Valdez was the recipient of an award from the Western Political Science Association for her paper, "Punishment, Race, and the Organization of U.S. Immigration Exclusion," at their…
Latina/o Studies would like to thank President Drake's Office, and especially Katie Hall, for working to make interpretation services in Spanish and Mandarin available at the 2017 commencement…
Community Arts University Without Walls Puerto Rico, Study Away 2017
Course Dates: July 5 - 27, 2017
Pre-trip classes at OSU: July 5, 6 & 7 1:00 - 4:00 PM
In-country classes in…
The Latina/o Studies Program at OSU thanks President Michael V. Drake for his statement affirming Ohio State’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. In light of the recent executive orders on…
Congratulations to Theresa Delgadillo and Sonia BasSheva Mañjon on Humanities Without Walls Grant - "Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest"
This project is supported…
Community Arts University Without Walls (CAUWW) is a special course of study for those interested in the impact and role of cultural arts in engaging issues of social justice within communities. The…
Congratulations to Ana Puga, who was awarded a significant Humanities & Arts Discovery Theme Grant grant for her “Be the Street” program funded to create devised theatre with underserved…
Prof. Patricia Enciso, from the Department of Teaching and Learning, and President of the Literacy Research Association, will deliver an opening keynote address on Wednesday, Nov. 30th,2016 during…
Glenn Martinez, Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, was selected Latino of the Year by the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center’s Hispanic Latino Network. Martinez…
Theresa Delgadillo was interviewed for NPR's LATINO USA special program on all things ghostly. The program aired on the Halloween and Day of the Dead weekend. Delgadillo discussed the tale of La…
Frederick Aldama will be honored this spring by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AHHEE) for Outstanding Latina/o Faculty in Higher Education. This national award recognizes…
Through its program of Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize…
Appointed in Comparative Studies and affiliated with the Latina/o Studies Program, Ashley Hope Pérez, is quickly becoming known nationally as an outstanding author of Young Adult fiction that centers…
Congratulations to Arnulfo Pérez, College of Education and Human Ecology, and affiliated faculty in Latina/o Studies! Pérez won a $1.2 million NSF Grant in September 2015 with Co-PIs Christopher…
The Latina/o Studies Program is pleased to announce the following award recipients for the 2014-2015 academic year:
Latina/o Studies 2015 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Paper Award
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In Fall 2015, Latina/o Studies Program held a workshop to assist graduate students and junior faculty in preparing applications for the Ford Fellowship Program and we are happy to report that another…
Yalidy Matos (Political Science) was awarded Brown University’s two-year Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship in Race and Ethnicity and International and Public Affairs. She will work…
Verónica Betancourt, doctoral student in the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at OSU, and a student in the Latina/o Studies Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization, has been…
In Fall 2015, Latina/o Studies Program held a workshop to assist graduate students and junior faculty in preparing applications for the Ford Fellowship Program and we are happy to report that two OSU…
In Celebration of Cesar Chavez Day the Latina/o Studies Program at OSU Salutes the Millions of Latina/o Working People Making a Difference in the U.S. in Ways Big and Small …
Associate Professor Ignacio Corona, Department of Spanish, and Associate Professor Jesus Lara, Knowlton School of Architecture received an award from the College of Arts and Sciences to team-teach…
Visiting Assistant Professor Ashley Hope Pérez and Political Science graduate student Yalidy Matos are leading the Latina/o Studies Program's collaboration with the community group 4L For Latinas…
Theresa Delgadillo was elected to the board of the Ohio Humanities Council for a three-year term beginning on November 1, 2014 and ending October 31, 2017.
Find out more about Latina/o Studies and our accomplishments, faculty, students, and events in the November 2014 DISCO enewsletter! Featuring a program summary, faculty accomplishments, upcoming…
Glenn Martinez, professor and chair, Spanish and Portuguese; and Usha Menon, Ohio State Centennial Professor of Nursing, are co-principal investigators on a new grant designed to change the…
Latina/o Studies faculty member and Director of the new Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise Sonia BasSheva Mañon exhibited her installation, titled Mujeres Dominicanas en…
We are pleased to announce that Latina/o Studies at OSU awarded four travel grants for research in Latina/o Studies to OSU graduate students in 2014: Verónica Betancourt, Ph.D. student in Arts…
Miranda Martinez, Associate Professor in Comparative Studies, will speak about Latina/os and the Civil Rights Act at "Honoring Civil Rights Struggles: The 2014-2015 DISCO Welcome Reception" in the…
Faculty and graduate students at OSU are organizing a series of events for the academic year 2014-2015 to commemorate this landmark legislation in light of contemporary realities. Details of…
Latino Midwest : Theresa Delgadillo received a seed grant of $5000.00 from the OSU Humanities Institute in support of a proposal for a regional collaboration with Latina/o Studies faculty on …