William Luis

Blair alumna Krystal Grant Folkestad uses her musical skills to serve multiple audiences while focusing on how life affects art and art influences activism.  Read More

Vanderbilt Spanish and Portuguese Ph.D. student Elvira Aballi Morell is leading an effort to uplift and inspire Nashville’s Latinx creatives through a trans-institutional and community driven project, HEART–Unifying Communities through Language and Textile Art. Read More

Manuel Zapata Olivella, an Afro-Colombian novelist who became known throughout Latin America as the dean of Black Hispanic writers, will be celebrated during an international conference April 8–10 hosted virtually by Vanderbilt. Read More

The Vanderbilt Association of Hispanic and Latinx Alumni and the Vanderbilt Alumni Association invite the university community to attend the virtual event, "’Dores in Dialogue: A Conversation on the History and Complexities of the Term Latinx," on Friday, Jan. 29, from 11 a.m. to noon CT. Read More

The Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Latino and Latina Studies and the Vanderbilt Association of Hispanic Students presented Sí Se Pudo 2017, Vanderbilt’s inaugural Latinx graduation ceremony, on May 11 in the Central Library Community Room. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Program in Latino and Latina Studies will host its inaugural symposium, "Looking Out, Looking In: Latina/o Poetry," on Thursday, Feb. 13. Read More

Vanderbilt University will celebrate the fall launch of Latino and Latina Studies, a new multidisciplinary program, with several events during Hispanic Heritage Month, including an Oct. 15 talk by author Joy Castro. Read More

Three Vanderbilt University professors are among 175 scholars, artists and scientists named the 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows. Read More

Two humanities professors in Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science have been named 2012 Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read More

Renowned experts on preservation of African and Afro-descended slave records will gather at Vanderbilt Feb. 2 - 4 to launch the university's new Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies digital archive and website. Read More

"Thinking of It" by María Magdalena Campos-Pons One of the most significant artists to emerge from the Cuban post-revolutionary era will lead a faculty discussion about race in her native country on Wednesday, Oct. 12. María Magdalena Campos-Pons, who is a visiting artist on campus Oct. 9-18,… Read More

Pictured (l-r) Professor of Spanish and editor of "Afro-Hispanic Review" William Luis, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, NAHCC's Mario Moreno, Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center Director Frank Dobson and NAHCC's Yuri Cunza. (Photo courtesy of NAHCC)     Hispanic Heritage Month kicked off Sept. 15 at the Bishop Joseph… Read More

Thirteen new endowed chairholders were honored May 17 in the Student Life Center (Mary Donaldson/Vanderbilt) Thirteen faculty members named this year to endowed chairs in the School of Medicine and College of Arts and Science were honored for outstanding academic achievements. The May… Read More