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A Map of the Latino and Latin American Spaces at Rutgers, New Brunswick

This applies to Rutgers New Brunswick, the largest and most research-oriented of the three campuses.

  • The Center for Latino Arts and Culture—Student-centered cultural programming and support services. Home to our many Latino student organizations. Directed by Carlos Fernandez. Assisted by Silismar Suriel. They host the Latino Student Council, the umbrella for dozens of student organizations, including MASA (Mexican American Student Association.
  • The Department of Latino & Caribbean Studies—Teaches a highly specialized undergraduate curriculum on Latinos in the US, Caribbean, and migration.  We probably have the most developed curriculum of this sort in the US. Eleven or so regular faculty members from different disciplines and a few part-timers. Chaired by Kathleen Lopez.
  • Graduate teaching in the Latino area is done in many disciplinary departments.
    • We have one of the top Ph.D. programs in Latin American/Caribbean history
    • Other departments in the School of Arts and Sciences that have many graduate students working on LA and Latinos: Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, Spanish and Portuguese..
    • The professional schools with significant Latino and Latin American work are:
      • Information and communication
      • Social Work
      • Public Policy
      • Education
      • Public Health
      • Medical School
  • The Latino Studies Research Initiative is an ongoing effort to promote and share research on Latinos, especially in New Jersey. Includes various initiatives, including documentary filmmaking, digitization of the Department of Latino & Caribbean Studies archive, oral history work, and the new book on Latinas/os in New Jersey. Co-directed by Aldo Lauria Santiago and Kathleen Lopez.   https://lsri.rutgers.edu/
    • Aldo and Ulla Berg co-edited the book with Rutgers Press
    • We send interns to the Newark Public Library Hispanic and Puerto Rican archives.
  • The Center for Latin American Studies—An area studies center focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. Events. An undergraduate major and minor. One post-doctoral associate and part-time faculty. We work with the courses offered by our 40-50 faculty affiliates in every imaginable discipline.  We are very focused on research and supporting graduate students in different fields. Some do work on Latinos in the US.  https://clas.rutgers.edu/
    • We have working groups on:
      • Caribbean
      • Mexico and Central America
      • Andean Studies
      • Brazil
      • Indigenous Studies
      • Colombia
  • We no longer have a Latino faculty caucus, but Rutgers how has (finally, but not even remotely done yet) dozens of Latinas/os origin faculty in every school.