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• 1 media/image14.png 2021-08-26T13:09:36-07:00 2004, September 20 - Latina/o Studies Program Founded 3 The Latina/o Studies Program, the first program of its kind in the Southeast, is inaugurated on September 20. Professor María DeGuzmán (1964- ), who joined the faculty in July 1999, is the founding director of the program. The program, housed in the Department of English & Comparative Literature, offers undergraduate and graduate level classes across multiple departments and hosts an undergraduate minor, several speaker series, undergraduate and graduate symposia, instructional support for graduate students, working groups, a film database, and literary and cultural studies events. plain 2021-09-02T08:34:07-07:00 09/20/2004 The Latina/o Studies Program, the first program of its kind in the Southeast, is inaugurated on September 20. Professor María DeGuzmán (1964- ), who joined the faculty in July 1999, is the founding director of the program. The program, housed in the Department of English & Comparative Literature, offers undergraduate and graduate level classes across multiple departments and hosts an undergraduate minor, several speaker series, undergraduate and graduate symposia, instructional support for graduate students, working groups, a film database, and literary and cultural studies events. As part of a larger transdisciplinary program, the Latina/o Studies minor introduces students to diverse forms of LatinX cultural and intellectual productions, as well as histories and experiences. DeGuzmán notes that “between units on campus and between campus and community contact points,” the program creates “hybrid spaces for research, teaching, cultural appreciation, advocacy, and so forth not only about Latina/o communities and cultures but also with Latina/o communities and individuals” (DeGuzmán 308).
  
  
  
  
  
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  DeGuzmán, María. “The Emerging Geographies of a Latina/o Studies Program.” Southeastern Geographer 51.2 (2011): 307–326.
  
  For records relating to The Latina/o Studies Program, please visit the Wilson Special Collections Library, collection number 40489: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/40489/. The collection is composed of more than 1000 items from 1999 to the present. 
  
  The Digital Literacy and Communications Lab.  “María DeGuzmán.” “Faculty Directory.”  UNC College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020,https://englishcomplit.unc.edu/faculty-directory/maria-deguzman/.
  
  “History of the UNC Latina/o Studies Program.” “About Us.”  UNC Latina/o Studies Program, Department of English and Comparative Literature,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020, http://lsp.unc.edu/about-us/history/.