CERLAC Student and CERLAC Visiting Researcher Awarded CALACS 2021 Prizes

CALACS 2021 Dissertation Prize Winner It is with great pleasure that CALACS announces the recipient of the 2021 CALACS Outstanding Dissertation Award: Silvia Cristina Vasquez Olguin, Ph.D. The Social Production of Space and Nature in Peasant Communities of a Costa Rican Dry Forest 2020 York University Supervisor: Dr. Anna Zalik Dr. Vasquez Olguin’s outstanding dissertation […]

Fracisco Rico-Martinez, co-director of FCJ Refugee Centre, has passed away | The Star

Francisco Rico-Martinez, co-director of FCJ Refugee Centre, passed away on Friday. After coming to Canada from El Salvador with his wife and two children at the time, Francisco became committed to issues of social justice as a lawyer and economist. To read the full story in The Star, click here.

yFile: Four York professors receive awards from Government of Canada's New Frontiers in Research Fund

Four York University researchers have received research awards from the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)-Exploration stream. Professors Cristina Delgado Vintimilla (Faculty of Education and CERLAC Fellow), Sarah Flicker (Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change), Matthew Perras (Lassonde School of Engineering) and Dayna Scott (Osgoode Hall Law School) are the principal investigators […]

yFile: CERLAC Fellow Andrea Davis awarded prestigious 3-M National Teaching Fellowship

Central to Professor Andrea Davis’ transformational work as a teacher and academic is the belief that “racism is a refusal to really learn,” and the philosophy of “teaching as activism.” Her 20-year career embodies both and, now, she has been recognized with Canada’s most prestigious award for teaching, leadership and innovation. Davis, an associate professor of […]

yFile: CERLAC announces recipients of 2020 Michael Baptista Prize

York University PhD student Giovanni Hernández-Carranza (Department of Sociology) and undergraduate student Enzo Flores Montoya (Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics) were named the recipients of the 2020 Michael Baptista Essay Prize from the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). To read the full YFile story, click here.

yFile: CERLAC recognizes exceptional scholarship on the Latin American diaspora in Canada

York University PhD student Tamara Toledo (Department of Visual Art and Art History) andMFA film student Jean Pierre Marchant (Department of Cinema and Media Arts) were named the recipients of the 2020 TLN Telelatino Award from the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). An honorable mention was also awarded to PhD student Asheda Dwyer (Graduate Program in Social […]

2020 Michael Baptista Essay Prize Awarded

2020 Michael Baptista Essay Prize Awarded The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Michael Baptista Essay Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the area of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.At the graduate level, the prize was awarded to Giovanni Carranza for his paper "Hemispheric racial […]

2020 TLN Telelatino Prize Awarded

The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 TLN Telelatino Prize for outstanding scholarly papers in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.Prizes were awarded to Tamara Toledo for her paper "Space and Recognition: Curating Latin American Art in Toronto" and to Jean Pierre Marchant for his short […]

The 2020-2021 Michael Baptista lecture series: Fly Me to the Moon: Imagining a Future Beyond Extraction

York University's Centre for Research on Latin American and the Caribbean (CERLAC) presents its 2020-2021 Michael Baptista lecture series: Fly Me to the Moon: Imagining a Future Beyond Extraction on November 11, 2020.  The lecture will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. via zoom. Fly Me to the Moon: Imagining a Future Beyond Extraction: […]

York graduate Gonzalo de Villa appointed Archbishop

York graduate Gonzalo de Villa appointed Archbishop July 15, 2020 On July 9, 2020, the Vatican announced that Gonzalo de Villa, who in 1988 completed a Masters Degree in Social and Political Thought (SPT) at York University, has been appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala— historically the oldest of the two Ecclesiastical Provinces in Guatemala.  While at […]