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Graduate student funds for travel to Latin America available through RCA
New funding is available for graduate students traveling to Latin America to conduct preliminary research, thanks to a grant from the Tinker Foundation and matching funds from the university that were received by the Research Center for the Americas.
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New Human Rights Lab trains students to investigate wrongdoing
The new Human Rights Lab went live this fall with 19 students who have learned high-tech, digital-verification skills they will use to investigate alleged human rights abuses around the globe.
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UC Santa Cruz Hires Its First Activist In Residence
Local NPR affiliate KAZU Radio did a story about Isaí Ambrosio, the new activist-in-residence hired by Sylvanna Falcon, associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and the director of the Research Center for the Americas.
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Wanted: Activist in residence
Sylvanna Falcon, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies and director of the Research Center for the Americas, was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel column about the center's search for an "activist in residence."
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Feminist Progress is Not Linear
Sylvanna Falcon of Latin American and Latino Studies coauthored a piece for Counterpunch about the "complicated and compelling" story of women's organizing that is emerging in 2018.
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Tuning in to social justice
Professor-turned-radio show producer Sylvanna Falcón talks about the importance of public scholarship in the Trump era.
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Professor’s book wins National Women’s Studies Association book award
A book by Sylvanna M. Falcón, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been named winner of the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldúa book prize given by the National Women’s Studies Association.
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Why understanding racism needs a feminist analysis
In a new book, Sylvanna M. Falcón, assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz, takes on the world’s largest political and humanitarian organization: the United Nations.
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Year-long UC Santa Cruz seminar to examine global migration and non-citizenship
The phenomena of global migration, disenfranchisement, and hardships of living in territories while not holding traditional citizenship will be examined in a year-long seminar conceived by five UC Santa Cruz professors and funded with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Latin American and Latino Studies professor wins career enhancement fellowship
Sylvanna Falcón, assistant professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a yearlong Career Enhancement Fellowship for junior faculty administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.