CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINX STUDIES

The Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CELAS) at Rice University advances an innovative and capacious approach to area and ethnic studies: multiracial, multilingual, hemispheric, transnational in scope yet rooted in place.

The Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CELAS) at Rice University advances an innovative and capacious approach to area and ethnic studies: multiracial, multilingual, hemispheric, and transnational in scope yet rooted in place. The Center pursues interdisciplinary research that illuminates the heterogeneity and interconnectedness of Latin American and Latine lives and cultures across the globe and tackles pressing issues affecting people and places, from Houston, Texas, the Gulf Coast region and the US South to Greater Caribbean, Latin America, the Americas, and other world regions. The Center advances this mission and agenda via research clusters, lecture series, colloquia, workshops, artist collaborations, and support for individual research projects by Rice students and faculty, thus facilitating and creating vibrant research and creative communities on and beyond campus.