The Greater Los Angeles region is home to a vast number of world-class cultural institutions. In recent years, the Latin American Institute has had the privilege of partnering with several of these to ...

Since 2015 the UCLA Latin American Institute (LAI) has collaborated with the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ) in Mexico to teach Nahuatl at UCLA. Native speakers ...

Training for K-12 educators has long been a prominent part of the LAI’s mission. Developed over three decades, our outreach program equips Los Angeles K-12 teachers to incorporate Latin American ...

Professor Pérez-Montesinos studies social, economic, and political transformations in Mexico and Latin America in the second half of the nineteenth-century and the early twentieth century, with an ...

Aaron Tornell is Professor of Economics at UCLA, specialized in International Finance and Political Economy. His current research deals with (i) Financial liberalization, lending booms, and financial ...

Mexican agricultural workers and the communities where they live and work constitute a diverse population, differentiated by origin, ethnicity, legal status, work, and mobility. Panelists will explore ...

Giancarlo Cornejo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and ...

For decades the Latin American Institute has offered workshops for K-12 educators in Greater Los Angeles and across California. These workshops equip teachers to more effectively incorporate Latin ...

Guevara-Flanagan has won many accolades for her newest short film, Águilas (2021), about an all-volunteer organization that searches for migrants who go missing as they cross the border between Mexico ...

Karl Swinehart joined the Department of Anthropology at UCLA in Spring 2026. He is the author of Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia: Aymara Radio and Song in an Age of Pachakuti (Bloomsbury, ...

The UCLA Latin American Institute is a vital regional, national, and international resource on Latin America.

Using quantitative and qualitative data, the report's analysis finds unprecedented violence against migrants in six northern Mexican border states and four southwestern U.S. border states during the ...