As part of the Mujeres Latinas Brown Bag series, an ongoing effort to bring more exposure of Hispanic women to IU, graduate student Tanya Flores delivered a presentation Friday in Ballantine Hall about accommodation theory in Chilean Spanish.
The program was started by Leonice Santamaría, a visiting lecturer who teaches S280: Spanish Grammar in Context.
She said she wanted to allow for more presentations by Hispanic women graduate students, who she feels are underrepresented on campus and in academic life in general.
“I really wanted to focus on women,” Santamaría said. “I have seen Latinas being behind the Latinos in terms of hiring practices by universities and departments. There are more Latino men on campus than Latina women as professors, directors of programs and so on.”
Santamaría went to the Latino Faculty and Staff Council, which approved the program.
The program is also connected to La Casa Latino Cultural Center, the Latino Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Aside from furthering the exposure of Hispanic women academics in general, the program has also functioned as a support system for Latinas on campus, according to La Casa Director Lillian Casillas-Origel. READ MORE
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