UC San Diego Latin American Studies

Congratulations to Damian Valenzuela who defended his thesis on May 29th! Thank you to the committee members who offered their support of this research!

Congratulations to Michael Aldas who defended his thesis on May 27th! Thank you to the committee members who offered their support of this research! 🎉

Please join us for another thesis defense this Friday! No RSVP necessary!

✨ ✨ Meet Xiomara Aguilar, a 4th-year undergraduate student in the LAS B.A Program!

✨ ✨ Meet Jasmine Navel Gutierrez, a 4th-year undergraduate student in the LAS B.A Program!

✨ ✨ Meet Celeste Espinoza, a 4th-year undergraduate student in the LAS B.A Program!

Join us in celebrating and honoring our graduating students with refreshments and community! 🎓✨

This event is open to affiliated students, faculty, and staff.

🗓 May 20, 2026 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Honoring our graduates from 5:00pm to 5:45 pm.

📍RWAC, Sixth College , 5th Floor Terrace, Arts and Humanities Building

Hosted by the Chicanx and Latinx Studies Program, Black Diaspora and African American Studies Program, Ethnic Studies Program, Black Studies Project, and Latin American Studies Program.

🔗 RSVP at the link in bio.

Please review our Summer 2026 LATI course offerings! All LAS summer session courses will be held remotely! Don’t miss out, enroll now!☀️

✨Meet your professor✨ Get to know Luis Martín-Cabrera! This Summer Session ll, he will be teaching LATI 50.

“Luis Martín-Cabrera is an associate professor in the Literature Department and the Latin American Studies Program at UC, San Diego. He is a specialist in Environmental Humanities, oral history, Latin American Studies, and anti-colonial thought. Originally trained as a specialist in Spanish and Latin American cultural studies, Martín-Cabrera has written extensively about human rights and memory, television, film, and hip-hop music in Spain, the Southern Cone, and the Andean region.

More recently, Professor Martín-Cabrera has been studying climate change and the “green transition” from a Latin American perspective. This interest has produced three interrelated projects. A digital archive –the Transandean Lithium Project ; a book length project tentatively titled, Ecocolonialism in the Andes: a Posthumanist Critique of the Green Transition from Latin America, which theorizes the pitfalls of the green turn in the Global North from an Andean perspective, and a memoir/nonfiction book — Antes que desaparezca el río/ Before the Rivers Dissapears— which establish a dialogue between rural Spain and the Andes around the potential death of a river.”