LALACS Visiting Professor Peter DeShazo '69, a former career Foreign Service officer who served in Caracas, spoke on Thursday about the geopolitics in Latin America.

Three recent graduates were honored this fall for their senior theses. LALACS Major, Melissa Reyes '25, received the Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis Prize.

Professor Desirée Garcia, received the James Wright Sustaining Faculty Excellence Award, awarded to newly tenured and promoted faculty who have made significant contributions as teacher scholars.

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Join Professor of Art History and LALACS Mary Coffey, as she takes us on a journey through the Baker Library lower level reading room to learn more about one of Dartmouth's most treasured works, The Epic of American Civilization.

All students are welcome to our Open House! Learn about our courses, the LACS major and minor, the honors program, research opportunities, and study abroad programs in Cuba and Brazil.

Former LALACS Chávez Fellow Gabrielle Cabrera's article published in Anthropology News about the Migrant Lives event she organized in spring term 2025.

The LALACS Department together with OPAL and the Dialogue Project joined Crossroad Farm in celebrating the Jamaican Independence Day with guestworkers.

"If you want to talk about what romance really is, it is a genre that tells us about how people want to live their lives," the assistant professor of Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies says in an article about the evolution of the "book boyfriend."