Welcome
LACS is Stony Brook’s center devoted to the study of Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas in the U.S. and elsewhere. We offer undergraduates an interdisciplinary, 18-credit LACS Minor degree, which allows students to explore a variety of classes across the Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM disciplines relating to the crucial roles of Latin America and the Caribbean in our current world, including right here in our home of Long Island, New York.
Our center hosts a variety of events throughout the academic year that serve the social and intellectual needs of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff at Stony Brook. They include student and faculty research workshops, lecture series and film discussions, monthly coffee hours and teach-ins with community advocacy organizations, and invited talks and panels featuring cutting-edge scholars from around the world.
OUR 2022-2023 ACADEMIC YEAR
Click on the image to see LACS recent accomplishments and future goals in our annual report.
LACS News & Events
This year, as always, we celebrated Día de Muertos at LACS in collaboration with HLL. It was a moving and heartwarming event where we gathered to share poems about death, honored our departed loved ones, and enjoyed traditional tamales and Mexican hot chocolate.
Stony Brook students propose undocumented student success center
The Statesman covered the Sept. 11 event held by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center at Stony Brook University, which focused on the struggles faced by undocumented and immigrant students at SBU. The event included discussions about the creation an Undocumented Immigrant Student Success Center to address the specific needs of this student community.'
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We are fundraising for LACS this year to continue providing summer research fellowships to students pursuing original research projects relating to Latin American and Caribbean studies. This financial support is essential to their valuable work, and can be put towards anything from airfare to housing to A/V equipment to books. Please click here and then click "Give Early" and then under "Additional Giving Opportunities" type in "Latin American" and you will find our Excellence Fund!
Your generous donations will help us continue our almost 30-year legacy of vibrant research at Stony Brook, and help us remain a thriving academic center and program at our university. Thank you! ¡Gracias!
RETIREMENT RETROSPECTIVE FOR PROFESSOR PAUL GOOTENBERG
We are proud to have co-sponserd the retirement retrospective event for Distinguished Professor of History (and former LACS Director) PaulGootenberg.
