Register for the 2016 MALCS Summer Institute!

The website for the 2016 Summer Institute has launched, and you can now register for this year’s Summer Institute and reserve on-campus housing at institute.malcs.org. The website has information about the Institute theme, getting to Laramie, and the featured artist Sarah Ortegon. The 2016 Site Committee will post updates to the website when available (including the … Read more

Deadline Extended!: MALCS 2016 Summer Institute Call for Papers

University of Wyoming August 3 – 6, 2016 Laramie, Wyoming   Conference Theme: “Deconstructing the Equality State: Remnants of Colonialism, Trauma, and Invisibility” The state of Wyoming is known as the Equality State, a moniker that belies a much less beautiful truth. The history of this land encompasses the stories of multiple bands and Indigenous tribes, the … Read more

News From the Exec

A new section of the MALCS website initiated by Chair Keta Miranda and the Executive Board in Summer 2011 2014 – Ex-Oficio, Mónica F. Torres MALCS 2014: Proposal for Changes to the Bylaws At the business meeting of the 2013 MALCS Summer Institute at Columbus, Ohio, a resolution was passed that proposed two changes to … Read more

Passing of Chicana historian Louise Ano Nuevo Kerr

Louise Ano Nuevo Kerr

Louise Ano Nuevo Kerr, 1938-2015 We remember Louise Ano Nuevo Kerr, pioneering Chicana historian who ensured Chicana academic presence in the Midwest since the mid 1970s, as well as wrote one of the first dissertations on Mexicans in the Midwest. She also brought MALCS to Chicago for the first time in 1994.  Louise died surrounded by family … Read more

Pioneering Chicana Historian Honored by Obama, NEH

Chicana historian Vicki Ruiz has been named a recipient of the 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the President of the United States. Dr. Ruiz is being honored for pioneering the history of twentieth-century Latinas in a distinguished career that began with collecting oral testimony from Mexican immigrants who worked in … Read more

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: CREATIVE WRITING EDITOR

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS  CREATIVE WRITING EDITOR CHICANA/LATINA STUDIES: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social  DEADLINE: October 1, 2015         MALCS invites nominations and self-nominations for Creative Writing Editor to serve a five-year term for its flagship, interdisciplinary journal, Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y … Read more