In 1965 the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee received a grant from the United States
Office of Education to establish an undergraduate NDEA Center for Latin American Studies.
The Language and Area Center for Latin America formally opened in September 1965 in Garland
Hall, with the director reporting to the dean of the College of Letters & Science. The
center changed its name to the Center for Latin America in 1974. In 1981 the center moved
its headquarters to Curtin Hall. The center changed its name again in 2000 to the Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
The center's primary function is to promote, develop, and financially support teaching and
research on Latin America both at the graduate and undergraduate level. Since 1967 the
center has published extensively with several series of original essays, reprints, and
papers.
Center Directors
| 1965-1966 |
Henry W. Hoge
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| 1967-1973 |
Markos J. Mamalakis
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| 1973-1975 |
G. Michael Riley
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| 1975-1976 |
G. Michael Riley, Acting
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| 1976-1989 |
Donald R. Shea
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| 1989-1994 |
Ivan A. Jaksic
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| 1994-1999 |
Howard Handelman
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| 1999-2015 |
Kristin Ruggiero
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| 2015- |
Natasha Borges Sugiyama (interim)
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