Title: UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Records
Inclusive Dates: 1958-2018

Creator:

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Call Numbers: UWM Archival Collection 119; Accession 2012-010

Quantity:

• 5 cubic ft. (7 boxes)
• 39 digital files (1.92 MB)
• plus additions of 3 cubic ft. (3 boxes)

Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives Department

Archival Location:

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and its predecessors, the Language and Area Center for Latin America and the Center for Latin America, as well as materials documenting the formation of the center. The collection consists of correspondence files, meeting minutes, planning documents, and discussion papers written by UWM professors and several scholars from outside the university and published by the center from 1969 to 1985. The center also published several newsletters and distributed the research findings of its members in essays, reprints, and pamphlets which are also included in the collection.

Language: English

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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
1967-1973	Markos J. Mamalakis
1973-1975	G. Michael Riley
1975-1976	G. Michael Riley, Acting
1976-1989	Donald R. Shea
1989-1994	Ivan A. Jaksic
1994-1999	Howard Handelman
1999-2015	Kristin Ruggiero
2015-	Natasha Borges Sugiyama (interim)

Records of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, including correspondence, meeting minutes, planning documents, and publications of the Center. Most of the collection consists of discussion papers written by UWM professors and several scholars from outside the university and published by the center from 1969 to 1985. The discussion papers mainly address economic issues and theories and their pertinence within Latin America, although several papers focus on political and cultural issues. The center also published several newsletters and distributed the research findings of its members in essays, reprints, and pamphlets which are also included in the collection.

The correspondence files (1958-1976) mostly consist of letters from the directors concerning staff, budget, course and curriculum development, and other center activities. The advisory committee and faculty meeting minutes also document courses, staff, budget, research, and other activities from 1958 to 1975. The planning documents (1969-1983) discuss grants, courses, migrant workers, and a suggestion for a Midwest Language and Area Study Program.

Of interest in the most recent addition to the collection (boxes 5-7) are files created to assist teachers at UWM and elsewhere incorporate materials on Latin American studies in their curriculum, as well as grant proposal documents describing the activities of the Center over three-year grant periods. The proposals also include information about budget proposals for the center and its collaboration with similar centers at UW-Madison.

This collection was received in, and is organized in, multiple parts. Additional materials have not been physically or intellectually arranged and interfiled, and researchers may need to consult more than one part of the collection to located similar materials.

• UWM Archival Collection 119: Records, 1958-2000

The collection contains one additional accession.

• Accession 2012-010: Introduction to Latin America video series, 1976-1985

A full list of the publications series from 1968-2000 has been scanned and is available in the Archives. Contact an archivist for more information.

Citation Guide for Primary Sources

• UW-Milwaukee College of Letters & Science Records. UWM Archival Collection 1.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law.

Use Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin Statutes 19.21-19.39).

Acquisition Information

An unknown individual transferred the collection to the Archives prior to 1989. The Center donated additional records (accession 2012-010) in August 2012.

Processing Information

Leslie Heinrichs processed the collection at the Archives in August 1995. Ashlie Biddle, under supervision of Brad Houston, integrated the paper documents (3 boxes) from accession 2012-010 into the collection in March 2016 and updated the finding aid to reflect the integration. Shiraz Bhathena added the advisory committee's electronic records of agendas and minutes in 2021.

UWM Archival Collection 119	Records, 1958-2000 Physical Description: 5 cubic ft. (7 boxes)
	Advisory Committee
Electronic Folder     \Advisory Committee, 2006-2018\   Agendas, 2006-2018\	Meeting Agendas, 2006-2018 Physical Description: 16 digital files (348 KB)
Box   1 Folder   1	Meeting Minutes, 1972-1975
Electronic Folder     \Advisory Committee, 2006-2018\   Minutes, 2006-2018\	Meeting Minutes, 2006-2018 Physical Description: 23 digital files (1.58 MB)
Box   5 Folder   1	African Diaspora in the Americas, 1992
Box   1 Folder   2	Auto-Instructional Language and Area Materials Project, 1964-1970
Box   5 Folder   2	Boletin, 1974-1977
Box   5 Folder   3	Boots, Bananas, and Biodiversity, 1996
Box   1 Folder   3	Brochures, 1971-1973
Box   1 Folder   4	Center Cover Formats, 1965-1970
Box   1 Folder   5	Center Essays, Nos. 1-3, 1968-1970
Box   1 Folder   6	Center Essays, Nos. 4-5, 1971-1973
Box   1 Folder   7	Center Essays, Nos. 6-8, 1975-1980
Box   1 Folder   8	Center Histories, 1968-1977
Box   5 Folder   4	Center Publication Lists, 1968-2000
Box   1 Folder   9	Center Reprints, Nos. 1-5, 1968-1969
Box   1 Folder   10	Center Reprints, Nos. 6-9, 1969-1970
Box   1 Folder   11	Center Reprints, Nos. 10-14, 1970-1971
Box   1 Folder   12	Center Reprints, Nos. 15-20, 1971-1972
Box   5 Folder   5	Central America Workshop, 1993
Box   5 Folder   6-7	CLASP Workshop, 1986, 1989
Box   1 Folder   13	Conference of Directors, 1969-1973
Box   5 Folder   8-9	Conference on Latin American History Newsletter, 1973-1977
Box   1 Folder   14	Conferences, 1969-1974
Box   1 Folder   15-19	Correspondence, 1964-1976
Box   1 Folder   20	Correspondence, Latin American Studies, 1958-1959
Box   5 Folder   10	Crossing Borders: Latin America Across the Curriculum, 1991
Box   1 Folder   21-29	Discussion Papers, Nos. 1-18, 1968
Box   1 Folder   30-32	Discussion Papers, Nos. 19-23, 1969
Box   1 Folder   33	Discussion Papers, No. 24, 1970
Box   1 Folder   34-37	Discussion Papers, Nos. 25, 27-35, 1971
Box   2 Folder   1	Discussion Papers, Nos. 36-38, 1971
Box   2 Folder   2-5	Discussion Papers, Nos. 39-47, 1972
Box   2 Folder   6	Discussion Papers, Nos. 48-49, 1973
Box   2 Folder   7-8	Discussion Papers, Nos. 50-53, 1974
Box   2 Folder   9-10	Discussion Papers, Nos. 54-57, 1975
Box   2 Folder   11	Discussion Papers, Nos. 58-60, 1976
Box   3 Folder   1	Discussion Papers, Nos. 61-63, 1977-1978
Box   3 Folder   2	Discussion Papers, Nos. 64-66, 1978-1979
Box   3 Folder   3	Discussion Papers, Nos. 67-68, 1980
Box   3 Folder   4	Discussion Papers, Nos. 69-71, 1980-1985
Box   5 Folder   11-16	Discussion Papers, Nos. 72-89, 1985-2000
Box   5 Folder   17	Early Consortium Proposal with UW-Madison, 1973-1976
Box   5 Folder   18	Environment in Latin America, 1992
Box   5 Folder   19-20	Espanol para Profesores de Espanol, 1991-1992
Box   3 Folder   5	Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes, 1965-1967
Box   3 Folder   6	Grant Proposal, 1969
Box   5 Folder   21-25	Grant Proposals and Plan of Operation, 1965-1977
Box   6 Folder   1-4	Guatemala for Teachers, 1995
Box   6 Folder   5-7	Guatemala for Teachers, 1997
Box   3 Folder   7	Index of Center Publications, 1973
Box   6 Folder   8-11	Interdisciplinary Courses for Latin American Studies, 1974-1975
Box   6 Folder   12	Inventory for the CLINE/CLAH Map Collection, 1974
Box   3 Folder   8	Las Casas Lectures, 1973-1974
Box   6 Folder   13	Latin America: Continuing Encounters, 1989
Box   6 Folder   14-15	Latin America: Curriculum Materials for Middle Grades, 1985
Box   3 Folder   9	Latin American Center Planning Document, 1983
Box   3 Folder   10	Latin American Committee Meeting Minutes, 1958
Box   6 Folder   16-18	Latin American Conferences in Wisconsin, 1973-1975
Box   3 Folder   11	Latin American Research Review, 1967-1970
Box   3 Folder   12	Latin American Studies Association, 1967-1968
Box   3 Folder   13	Latin American Studies Major, 1967-1968
Box   6 Folder   19	La Vida Diaria, 1986-1992
Box   3 Folder   14	Meeting Minutes, 1968-1970
Box   6 Folder   20	Memorandum on the Sectoral Program for the Development of the Petrochemical Industry Decision 91 of the Andean Common Market, 1975
Box   6 Folder   21	Midwest Association for Latin American Studies Newsletter, 1976-1977
Box   3 Folder   15	Midwest Language and Area Center for Latin America Proposal, 1972
Box   3 Folder   16	Migrant Worker Proposal, 1974-1975
Box   3 Folder   17	Migrant Workers Study, 1974
Box   3 Folder   18	National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship Report, 1968
Box   3 Folder   19	NDEA Latin American Language and Area Center, 1964-1969
Box   6 Folder   22-23	North Central Council of Latin Americanists, 1975-1976
Box   3 Folder   20	Noticiero Del Centro Newsletter, 1974-1976
Box   4 Folder   1	Pamphlet Series, Nos. 1-5, 1969
Box   4 Folder   2	Pamphlet Series, Nos. 6-9, 1969-1970
Box   6 Folder   24	Prochievement, 1993
	Proposals Scope and Content Note: These proposals concern the funding of the Center for Latin America itself, as well as fellowships for faculty and staff, between 1975 and 1994, under the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant program and others. The proposals include program narratives as part of the justification for ongoing funding, and as such provide an excellent overview of the Center's activities and mission for the preceding grant periods. Arrangement of the Materials: Proposals are arranged in chronological order.
Box   4 Folder   3	Proposal for the Development of an Inter-institutional and Interdisciplinary Introduction to a Latin American Studies Course, 1975
Box   6 Folder   25-30	Proposal for an International Studies Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program in Latin American Language and Area Studies, 1981-1983
Box   6 Folder   31	Proposal for the Continuation of Language and Area Studies Center and Language Area Studies Fellowship Program, Latin American Area, 1982-1983
Box   7 Folder   1-4	Proposal for Funding of a Graduate and Undergraduate Center for Latin American Language and Area Studies and Latin American Language and Area Studies Fellowships for Latin American Language and Area, 1983-1985
Box   7 Folder   5-19	Proposal for Language and Area Studies Center and Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program, Latin American Area, 1984-1991
Box   7 Folder   20-21	Proposal for a National Resource Center and Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program, Latin American Area, 1989-1991
Box   7 Folder   22-25	Proposal for Language and Area Studies Center and Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program, Latin American Area, 1991-1994
Box   7 Folder   26	Revolution and the Arts, 1988
Box   4 Folder   4	Six Year Report on the Results Obtained From the Funding And Support of the Research Activities of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Faculty by the Center...1982-1988, 1989
Box   7 Folder   27	Spanish Dialects of the Americas, 1996
Box   4 Folder   5	Special Papers, Nos. 1-2, 1973-1974
Box   4 Folder   6	Special Papers, Nos. 3-4, 1976
Box   4 Folder   7	Special Study Series, Nos. 1-3, 1970-1977
Box   7 Folder   28-31	Special Topics in Spanish Teaching, 1993
Box   4 Folder   8	Status of Portuguese Language Study and Portuguese Teaching Resources, 1965
Box   7 Folder   32	Teaching about Guatemala in the Language Classroom, 1997
Box   4 Folder   9	Technical Reports, 1971-1973
Box   7 Folder   33	Using Video in Foreign Language Classrooms, 1994
Box   4 Folder   10	Wisconsin Latin Americanist Newsletter, 1977-1978
Box   4 Folder   11	Wisconsin Latin Programs and Cooperative Organizations, 1973
Box   4 Folder   12	Women in Latin America, 1977
Accession 2012-010	Introduction to Latin America video series, 1976-1985 Abstract: The remaining accession contains 29 U-Matic video tapes from the "Introduction to Latin America" video series produced by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS). There are also a few files on the production of the series. Physical Description: 3 cubic ft. (3 boxes); Videocassettes (U-Matic)