Accomplishments

In the five decades since a landmark presidential commission on crime, cops and courts have begun taking domestic violence more seriously, but much work remains to be done, says Joanne Belknap, a University of Colorado Boulder professor of ethnic studies.

A week in Chile Dr. Villanueva took students to Santiago, Chile for the course: Athlete as a National Symbol: Nationhood, Nationalism and Sport. We visited the oldest Rodeo Club in Chile and met the participants. The club president was excited to have students visiting from the United States. We were...

Congrats to our PhD student, Natasha Myhal, on receiving the distinction of Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Competition!

Congrats to PhD student Raúl Melgoza, who received the distinction of Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship!

Congratulations to Dr. Nicholas Villanueva, whose book, Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands, recently won the 2017 Southwestern Studies Book Prize though the University of Texas and the Border Regional Library Association, and the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Non-Fiction Book Award from the National Association for Chicana & Chicano Studies (NACCS)!

Moments in Mexican American History in the Southwest, an historical look into Mexican-American history from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) to the present, is on display at The Collective in Lafayette. The exhibit of 23 panels combining text and images, was prepared by CU professors Dr. Arturo Aldama and...

Dr. Clint Carroll received a prestigious faculty early career award from the National Science Foundation. Through a tribally-driven, integrated research and education project, Dr. Carroll will explore barriers to land-based cultural practices among Cherokee people in Oklahoma, and will promote cultural and ecological resiliency through the intergenerational transfer of traditional...

Dr. Medak-Saltzman, in collaboration with Dr. Antonio T. Tiongson, Jr. (University of New Mexico) and Dr. Ikyo Day (Mount Holyoke), will edit a new book series on "Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality" to be published by Temple University Press. The series "showcases comparative studies of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity in...

Dr. Angelica Lawson will serve as Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies from Fall 2016 to Spring 2018. The Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS) at CU Boulder fosters Native community and coordinates collaborative research projects in Native American and Indigenous Studies, bringing together...