The Latino Studies Research Initiative

Lilia Fernandez and Aldo Lauria Santiago initiated the Latino Studies Research Initiative (LSRI), as an effort to organize a community faculty and graduate students with research interests in Latino/a studies.  Since then, the LSRI has run competitions for graduate student and faculty funding to promote Latino Studies research across the university. LSRI has held multiple symposia attended by dozens of faculty drawn from different schools and campuses to present their multidisciplinary research on Latinas/os.