Re: Latino Graduate Student Association - End of the Year Summary
August 10, 2008
Throughout the 2007-2008 academic year the Latino Graduate Student Association (LGSA) maintained a very busy schedule. The LGSA put together a series of varied events in order to meet our goals of providing a space for Latino graduate students at Princeton to meet one another and network, raise cultural awareness and strengthen ties with other constituencies serving underrepresented students and the community.
By creating a safe space for Latino graduate students to come together, we sought to foster a community that would support Latino graduate students and facilitate their academic success. In addition, we sponsored events to raise cultural awareness among our members and foster greater communication and networking with other students of color across the university and community – including strengthening ties with the Black Graduate Caucus and Latino undergraduate groups. Furthermore, our organization played a crucial role in assisting the Graduate School with its effort to recruit underrepresented minorities by participating in a series of information panels throughout the year and helping to coordinate pivotal events such as “Fall Preview Day” and “Hosting Weekend”.
The events coordinated during the academic year 2007-2008 could not have been made possible without the support of Princeton University, the Graduate School, the Office of Diversity, Dean Karen Jackson-Weaver, the LGSA board members, and many more individuals that are committed to the success of students of color across the university and organizations like this one. As the organization continues to grow and fulfill its commitment to Latino graduate students, we ask that you maintain your support and enthusiasm of the organization so together we can effectively ensure the success of Latino graduate students at Princeton.
Cordially,
Monica Trujillo
2007-2008 Chair of the LGSA
LGSA Events 2007-2008
SPRING 2008
June 1 – 6:30pm Latino Graduation
May 9 – 6:30pm End of the Year Dinner
May 1 – 7:30pm Dinner for Ten with Prof. Doug Massey (Soc. & WWS) @ Zorbas
April 28 – 7:00pmDinner for Ten with Prof. Eduardo Cadava (Eng.) @ Blue Point Grille
April 26 – 12-5pmCommuniversity - sponsored event with undergraduate Latino groups
April 24 – 8:30-10:30pmSponsored study break with Latino undergraduates in preparation for Communiversity
April 19 – 9-2pm Guided Tour of Frida Kahlo’s work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 10 – 5:30-7pm Joint Social Hour with the Black Graduate Caucus at Sotto Ristorante and Lounge
April 8 – 5:30pm Demystifying Graduate School and the Application Process - Information Session for Undergraduates – sponsored jointly w/ BGC
April 7 – 12pm Board Meeting
March 29-31Hosting Weekend – Cocktail Reception, Information Panel, and Dinners
March 13 – 11am Board Meeting
March 11 – 4:15pm Meeting with Dean Weaver to Discuss LGSA’s Mission and Activities
March 6 – 5:30-7pmSocial Hour at Sotto Ristorante and Lounge
February 29 – 7pm Screening of Movie (Walkout) Followed by Wine Reception
February 21 – 5:30-7pm Social Hour at Sotto Ristorante and Lounge
February 21 – 12pm General Body Meeting
February 9 – 9am-6pmBoard Retreat at Union City to plan and coordinate future events
February 7 – 5:30-7pmSocial Hour at Sotto Ristorante and Lounge
FALL 2007
December 14 – 5:30-7pmSocial Hour at Sotto Ristorante and Lounge
December 8 – 7:30pm A Winter Masquerade – Joint BGC, LGSA, PCN, etc. Winter Formal
December 5 – 7pm La Gran Tamalada - Sponsored Study Break with Latino Undergraduates
December 1 – 1-5pmHelped Sponsored Worker’s Appreciation Party
November 30 – 5:30-7pmSocial Hour at Sotto Ristorante and Lounge
November 29 – 5pm Demystifying Graduate School and the Application Process - Information Session for Undergraduates – sponsored jointly w/ BGC
November 27 – 7pm Dinner for Ten with Professor Peter Evans (Soc.) at Blue Point Grille
November 15 – Princeton’s Graduate School Prospective Day/ Fall Preview Day – Lunch, Information Panel and Joint BGC, LGSA, & Wesley Harris Society General Body Meeting
November 9 – 10-3pmSelect Volunteers Assisted Princeton University Preparatory Program Students with Revising their College Admissions Essays
November 13 – 7pm Board Meeting
November 9 – 6pmDinner and a Movie, co-sponsored with BGC
November 6 – 7:30pmDinner for Ten with Professor Rodney Hero (Pol.) at Mehek Indian Restaurant
October 26 – 3:30-5pmTour of Mexico’s ‘Taller de Grafíca Popular’ at Firestone Library followed by Wine and Cheese Reception
October 19 – 5:30-7pm Social Hour at Sotto Ristorante and Lounge
October 16 – 7:30pmBoard Meeting
October 5 – 5-6:30pmSocial Hour at Sotto Ristorante and Lounge
October 2 – 7:30pm Board Meeting
September 28 – 9pmWelcome Back Party
September 28 – 6-9pm Black and Brown BBQ
September 25 – 5pmGeneral Body Meeting
September 12 – 6:30pmBoard Meeting
Supplementary: Dinner for Ten – Professor Biographies/ Descriptions
About Professor Eduardo Cadava:
Eduardo Cadava received his Phd in English from the University of California Irvine in 1988 and joined the faculty at Princeton in 1989. He specializes in American literature and culture, literary and political theory, comparative literature, media technologies, and theory of translation. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (Princeton, 1997) and Emerson and the Climates of History (Stanford, 1997), and co-editor of Who Comes After the Subject? (Routledge, 1991), Cities Without Citizens (Rosenbach Museum/Slought Foundation, 2004), and a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly entitled And Justice for All?: The Claims of Human Rights (Duke, 2004).
He has published articles on, among others, Emerson, Benjamin, Kafka, and Celan, and on topics ranging from photography, architecture, democracy, and war, to memory, slavery, and the ethics of decision. He also has translated several essays by Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, Blanchot, and others. He is currently finishing a collection of essays on the ethics and politics of mourning entitled Of Mourning and a small book on the relation between music and techniques of reproduction, memorization, and writing entitled Music on Bones. He teaches regularly in the Programs in American Studies and European Cultural Studies, and he also is an Associate Member of the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for African American Studies, the School of Architecture, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
About Professor Douglas Massey:
Doug Massey is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is the current president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is a member of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council and the Immigration Advisory Board of the Russell Sage Foundation and is co-editor of the Annual Review of Sociology. He currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies in the Woodrow Wilson School. Massey’s research focuses on international migration, race and housing, discrimination, education, urban poverty, stratification, and Latin America, especially Mexico. He is the author, most recently, of Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World (W.W. Norton 2005) and editor of New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration (Russell Sage, forthcoming).
About Professor Peter Evans
Professor Evans is a visiting scholar from Berkeley’s Sociology Department where he studies the comparative political economy of national development in the Global South (a.k.a. “developing countries). Currently, he is trying to understand how changes in the way in which the global political economy itself is organized and controlled might better promote the well-being of ordinary citizens (especially in the Global South). For more information about him and his work see: .
About Professor Rodney Hero
Rodney E. Hero is the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy in theDepartment of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His researchfocuses on U.S. Democracy and Politics, especially as viewed through the analyticallenses of Latino and Ethnic/Minority Politics, State/Urban Politics, and Federalism.
He has published a number of research articles on these topics in scholarly journals,most recently including “Immigration and the Evolving American Welfare State:Examining Policies in the U.S. States,” in the American Journal of Political Science(51, 3, July 2007). His book, Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-tieredPluralism, received the American Political Science Association's 1993 Ralph J.Bunche Award.
He also authored Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics, whichwas selected for the APSA’s Woodrow Wilson Award in 1999. He is also co-author ofMultiEthnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (2006) and author ofRacial Diversity and Social Capital: Equality and Community in America (2007).