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Grant starts position as Visiting Instructor at Ft. Lewis College

Sept. 6, 2019

Congratulations to PhD student Deanne Grant on accepting a Visiting Instructor position and becoming a Mellow Fellow at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO for the 2019-2020 academic year in the sociology department!

2019 Cobell Research Fellows

PhD Student Natasha Myhal Receives Prestigious Cobell Graduate Summer Research Fellowship

July 11, 2019

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CU Boulder Today on Ethnic Studies student Adán Garcia

May 13, 2019

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Vasquez-Zarate receives UGGS Graduate Teaching Award

May 9, 2019

Congrats to José, who is the recipient of a United Government of Graduate Students Graduate Teaching Excellence Award for the academic year 2018-2019!

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PhD Student, Cassy Gonzalez, speaks on Prison Labor and CU

April 30, 2019

Join us this Wednesday to discuss the carceral state, the prison system, and its relationship to CU. The conversation will be led by Cassy Gonzalez, a CU PhD student in Ethnic Studies. Light snacks will be provided. Women & Gender Studies Senior Colloquium presents Prison Labor and CU Wednesday, May...

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2018-2019 DES Graduate Awards Announced

April 23, 2019

We are pleased to announce the recipients of our DES Graduate Research Fellowships and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award. Cassandra Gonzalez received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation project, Remnants of Chattel: Black Women, Sex Trafficking, and the Criminal Justice System Deanne Grant received a Graduate...

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Efren Herrera begins MA in Higher Education

April 19, 2019

Ethnic Studies graduate Efren Herrera will begin a 2-year program focusing on higher education and leadership centered around a social justice perspective. In addition, Efren has accepted a Graduate Assistantship with the Cesar Chavez Cultural Center, for which he will provide academic support for Latinx-identified students through organizing campus events...

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Ethnic Studies student Adán García admitted to Ph.D. program in Cultural Studies at UC-Davis

April 11, 2019

Congrats to our graduating senior, Adán García, for acceptance into the Ph.D. program in Cultural Studies at UC-Davis! Adán is also an Honors student. The title of his thesis is, "Transdisciplinarity from Marginal Spaces: Unsettling Epistemic Erasure of Critical and Decolonial Scholars."

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Shawn O'Neal to perform at the Digital International Creative Arts Therapies Symposium this Saturday!

Feb. 20, 2019

Please consider attending the distinct, online DICATS event on February 23, 2019. DES PhD Student Shawn Trenell O’Neal will be performing his collaborative project Hands of Midnight with the assistance of CU Instructor of Media Professor Patrick Clark . Our time slot is Saturday, February 23 from 2-3pm. Feel free...

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Melgoza awarded the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award)

Jan. 31, 2019

The National Association of Chicano/a Studies has awarded our PhD Candidate, Raul Melgoza, the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award). His paper was titled “Like the Monarch Butterfly”: Mariposas, Migrantes, and Chicanx Comparative Critique. Congrats, Raul!

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