NYLARNet Partner:
Center for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC)

The main functions of CELAC are:

l) to promote and facilitate research and scholarship dealing with Latin America and the Caribbean and the U.S. immigrant populations from these regions;

2) to provide the necessary infrastructure for generating linkages and collaborative agreements with other relevant public and private institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States, with the goal of promoting research, training and educational exchanges of faculty, students, and resources;

3) to engage in the publication of monographs, occasional papers, instructional materials and other projects pertinent to these regions;

4) to house a database which will gather and disseminate information on research publications focusing on Puerto Rican women;

5) to disseminate information through newsletters and directories and make research information more widely available to scholars, educators, the business community and other organizations;

6) to provide technical and consultant resources in specialized areas to public and private institutions in the U.S. and abroad;

7) to organize conferences, lectures, and workshops that enable scholars to discuss and advance the current state of research on a particular topic or to provide specialized training to particular constituencies (e.g., social studies and foreign language teachers, policy makers);

8) to provide a vehicle for the faculty to seek external funding for individual and collaborative research projects; and

9) to encourage greater communication and cooperation among Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. communities, and a greater appreciation of Latino multicultural diversity within U.S. society.

CELAC has a long standing record of coordinating research projects, publications, conferences, collaborative agreements, technical assistance services, and other activities related to the Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latino populations.  A few of CELAC’s most recent activities include: serving as the Secretariat for the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) and publishing the book Adiós, Borinquen querida: The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Its History, and Contributions in collaboration of the Department of Culture of the municipal government of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Visit CELACs website.