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      Puerto Rican Diaspora Project

     CELAC, in collaboration with IROW received the grant from the Ford Foundation for the project Gender Studies in Global Perspective: A Graduate Training Program (1998-2002).

    CELAC, in collaboration with IROW and the Center for the Arts and Humanities, received a grant from the Ford Foundation for the project Internationalizing Women's Studies: Crosscultural Perspectives on Gender Research and Teaching. The project ran from June 1, 1995-June 1, 1998 and will emphasize faculty development and international initiatives and collaborations with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Africa.

     LRR was initiated in 1995 with a grant from NYS/UUP Joint Labor Management Committees. For more information go back to CELAC homepage and access the Latino(a) Research Review homepage.      CELAC and LACS jointly carried out a series of activities under the Title VI Undergraduate Consortium Grant with the University of the Sacred Heart (USC) in Puerto Rico. One of the major outcomes of this project is the current Student Exchange Program with USC.       Professor Carlos Santiago continued to run his research projects through CELAC in collaboration with Francisco Rivera-Batiz of Columbia University. Their volume The Changing Reality of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. was published by the National Puerto Rican Coalition, and Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s was published by the Russell Sage Foundation in October 1996.       CELAC was one of the national research sites for the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Periodical Literature Project. This long-range project was initiated in 1992 by the University of Houston and since then, other institutions have undertaken various aspects of the research. Professor Acosta-Belén is part of the project's national team of scholars that constitute the umbrella project which is supported by a major ten-year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The University of Houston provides annual grant subcontracts to CELAC to carry on some of the project's activities. Her volume (with V. Sánchez Korrol), The Way It Was and Other Writings by Jesús Colón is a product of this project. CELAC indexed Hispanic newspapers published in New York City during the late nineteenth century.       As part of the School of Public Health Superfund initiative, Professor Azara Rivera-Santiago (Counseling Psychology/LACS) has received a five-year $500,000 grant to support her research on "The Biopsychological Well-Being Among Akawasasne Residents." CELAC is one of the three units sponsoring this research.       As part of its annual program of activities, CELAC and IMS held a conference in the Spring of 1996 on  Transnationalism and the Construction of Identities in the Americas. The conference focused on issues of hemispheric integration, (im)migration debates, and the emergence of a transnational sociocultural system in the Americas. Some of the guest speakers included: Ilán Stavans (Amherst College), Juan Flores (Hunter College), Nina Glick-Schiller (University of New Hampshire), Víctor Montejo (University of Montana), Allen Burns (University of Florida), and Suzanne Oboler (Brown University). Professor LilianaGoldin (Anthropology/LACS) served as Conference Chair. The book Identities on the Move: Transnational Processes in North America and the Caribbean Basin, ed. by Liliana Goldin is a collection of papers presented at this conference. The volume is published by the University of Texas Press.

     Professors Margarita Benítez and Colbert Nepaulsingh (LACS) coedited the volume Higher Education and the New World Islands. This volume was a special publication of The Latino Review of Books (LRB) and appeared in the Fall of 1996. The volume is out of print.
 

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