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During the 2025–2026 academic year, the IIR launched Leaving and Belonging, a digital storytelling initiative developed as part of its arts, culture, and storytelling initiative. This project complements the IIR’s broader mission to generate and amplify relevant research on immigrants and immigration to the United States by pairing research on migration with community engagement, using storytelling to amplify personal narratives and highlight lived experiences. 

As a first-generation college student with immigrant parents from El Salvador, navigating academia has been a challenge. It wasn't always easy, but it's been a rewarding and eye-opening journey. Now in my final year as an Anthropology major with a minor in Latin American Studies, I had the incredible opportunity to intern at the Co-Creative History Space.

Professor Lisa Gilman in the Department of English and Associate Professor Jennifer Ashley from the Global Affairs Program have received U.S. Fulbright Scholar Awards for the 2026-27 academic year.

Gilman discusses how immigration policies could affect science and innovation pipeline coming into the United States.

Endress collaborated with Qatari and Chilean artists to paint large scale murals as part of JEDARIART program.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Roger Lancaster's landmark ethnographic work, Life Is Hard. It's being translated for the first time by the Argentinian publisher Prometeo.

Hispanic Culture Review has been awarded a 2024 National Magazine Pacemaker Award by the Associated Collegiate Press.

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