Engaged Curriculum Grants
Latina/o Studies Program
The consolidation of the Latina/o Studies Program curriculum with explicit pathways to engaged learning and research, supported by new and enhanced partnerships.
With their rich histories and contemporary cultures, Latina/o communities are a vibrant, diverse and integral part of U.S. society. Latina/o studies encompasses political and labor participation, art, literature, music and performance, and issues of immigration, education, language and health. The development of the knowledge, skills and disposition for critical self-reflection, social praxis and democratic participation is at the very heart of Cornell’s interdisciplinary Latina/o Studies Program (LSP). Through collaborations with multiple community partners, the LSP has developed deep ties locally, regionally, nationally and even internationally with the goal of fostering engagement with U.S. Latina/o communities and issues through educational and artistic activities. The LSP is now consolidating its curriculum with explicit pathways to engaged learning and research, and enhancing and creating new partnerships that benefit students, community partners and communities far and wide.
Grant type: Advancement
Topics: Arts, Communication, Media and Design; Culture, Language and History
The Team
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Sofia Villenas, Department of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
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Debra Castillo, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Latino/a Studies, Department of Performing and Media Arts
College of Arts and Sciences
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Maria Cristina Garcia, Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
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Ella Diaz, Department of English, Department of Latino/a Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
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Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
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Karen Jaime, Department of Performing and Media Arts
College of Arts and Sciences
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Hector Vélez, Department of Sociology
College of Arts and Sciences
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Pilar Parra, Division of Nutritional Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Community partner: Latina/o Civic Association of Tompkins County
- Community partner: Cultura Ithaca
- Community partner: No más lágrimas
- Community partner: Bici-cocina
Engaged Curriculum Grants
Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula.