CENTER FOR LATINO, LATIN AMERICAN,

AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES

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The Center for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC) at the University at Albany, SUNY, was established in 1984 as a structured mechanism for focusing collective expertise and collaborative research and development efforts, and for providing dissemination and resource services to the public pertinent to these regions. It provides an international focus for the work of numerous departments and scholars, and brings together specialists on Latin America and the Caribbean and their corresponding U.S. Latino populations from a wide variety of disciplines.

The main functions of CELAC are: l) to promote and facilitate research and scholarship dealing with Latin America and the Caribbean and the U.S. immigrant populations from these regions; 2) to provide the necessary infrastructure for generating linkages and collaborative agreements with other relevant public and private institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States, with the goal of promoting research, training and educational exchanges of faculty, students, and resources; 3) to engage in the publication of monographs, occasional papers, instructional materials and other projects pertinent to these regions; 4) to house a database which will gather and disseminate information on research publications focusing on Puerto Rican women; 5) to disseminate information through newsletters and directories and make reseach information more widely available to scholars, educators, the business community and other organizations; 6) to provide technical and consultant resources in specialized areas to public and private institutions in the U.S. and abroad; 7) to organize conferences, lectures, and workshops that enable scholars to discuss and advance the current state of resesarch on a particular topic or to provide specialized training to particular constituencies (e.g., social studies and foreign language teachers, policy makers); 8) to provide a vehicle for the faculty to seek external funding for individual and collaborative research projects; and 9) to encourage greater communication and cooperation among Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. communities, and a greater appreciation of Latino multicultural diversity within U.S. society.

CELAC Director, Edna Acosta-Belén

The University at Albany, SUNY also offers undergraduate majors and minors in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and in Puerto Rican Studies; M.A. and Certificate degrees in Latin American and Caribbean Studies; and a doctoral concentration in Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Cultural Studies as part of the Spanish Ph.D. These programs are administered by the Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS).

CELAC Advisory Board

Edna Acosta-Belén, Director/ Christine E. Bose / José Cruz / Glyne Griffith / Fernando Leiva

Address: SS-247, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY 12222; Tel. (518) 442-4590; Fax (518) 442-4790; E-Mail: lrr@albany.edu

CELAC's Projects
CELAC's Conferences
CELAC's Publications
Gender Studies in Global Perspective Graduate Assistantships
CELAC/LACS Fall 2001 Conference
Gender and Globalization in the Americas: A Feminist Encuentro

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