LLILAS Resources for UT Latin Americanist Faculty

LLILAS has resources available for conferences, lectures, visiting professorships, and faculty research. This document provides guidelines to these resources and the corresponding allocation process. Staff contact information is listed at the end. More detailed information on most of the programs noted here can be found on the LLILAS website.

Conferences and Lectures

Requests for lecture and conference funding are submitted to the LLILAS Associate Director and decided upon on a first-come, first-served basis until all the available funds are disbursed. A description of the lecture and a note on other sources of funding should accompany the request. The conference/event should have substantial Latin American and/or Caribbean content, and LLILAS-affiliated faculty should be involved in organizing the conference/event. Funding limits are $500 for lectures, while conference funding will vary. Requests should be submitted at least a month in advance, and LLILAS cosponsorship must be acknowledged in official conference posters, programs, etc.

Lozano Long Conference and Annual Lectureship

This is the principal conference that LLILAS organizes each year, in accordance with priorities set by the LLILAS Directors and the Executive Committee. Proposed conference themes are submitted to the LLILAS Director for consideration by a faculty committee appointed by the Director. The deadline for proposals is March 1.

Harte Lectureship in Latin America and the Media

Recommendations may be submitted at any time to the LLILAS Director. Review of proposals is made by a committee that represents both LLILAS and the College of Communication and is chaired by the LLILAS Director.

Mexican Center

A call for proposals for two major intellectual program activities each year (one per semester) is sent to the Mexican Center-affiliated faculty in January, with an end-of-February deadline, for the upcoming academic year. Proposals and program priorities are reviewed by the Mexican Center Faculty Committee.

Brazil Center

A call for proposals for two major intellectual program activities each year (one per semester) is sent to the Brazil Center-affiliated faculty in January, with an end-of-February deadline, for the upcoming academic year. Proposals and program priorities are reviewed by the Brazil Center Faculty Committee.

Faculty Resources

Faculty Travel Funds

Requests for funding are submitted to the LLILAS Associate Director and are decided upon on a first-come, first-served basis until the funds are exhausted. In order to receive an award, faculty must be LLILAS affiliates. Funding limits are $400 for domestic travel and $800 for foreign travel. Funds can be used for lodging, transportation (airfare, ground transportation, taxis), meals, or conference registration fees. Requests should be submitted at least a month in advance of the expected departure date and should include a description of the conference/event, its relation to Latin American Studies, and the faculty member's role in the activity.

LLILAS Faculty Research Leave (one semester)

The call for applications for the following academic year is sent out to the LLILAS-affiliated faculty on the first Friday of October, with a deadline of the first Friday of November. Applications are reviewed by a faculty committee appointed by the Director.

Mellon Research Awards

The call for applications is sent out to the LLILAS-affiliated faculty on the first Friday of October, with a deadline of the first Friday of November. Research funding may be used at any time between May 15 of that academic year and May 14 of the following academic year. Applications are reviewed by a faculty committee appointed by the Director.

Visiting Professorships (one semester)

Tinker Visiting Professor

The call for nominations and the application are sent out to the LLILAS-affiliated faculty on the first Friday of October, with a deadline of December 1 for review by a faculty committee appointed by the Director. Candidates must be nominated by UT academic departments.

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Annual Visiting Professorship

UT-Fulbright Visiting Professor in Environmental Sciences and Policy

This professorship brings an eminent Brazilian scholar to UT Austin for one semester per academic year from 2011 through 2015, in partnership with the Office of the President, the Jackson School of Geosciences, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the McCombs School of Business, and the School of Law. Applications are reviewed by the Fulbright Commission of Brazil and a committee of LLILAS faculty. Logistics are coordinated by the Brazil Center.

Matías Romero Visiting Chair in Mexican Studies

Nominations are made by the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Mexico in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry and UT Austin. Logistics are coordinated by the Mexican Center.

Visiting Academics

Visiting Resource Professors

VRPs are invited by UT Latin Americanist faculty members to lecture for one to two weeks in either undergraduate or graduate classes. The call for nominations for the upcoming academic year is sent out to the LLILAS-affiliated faculty on the first Friday of October, with a deadline of the first Friday of November for review by a faculty committee appointed by the Director.

Visiting Scholars and Visiting Researchers

This program allows non-UT researchers to use library resources. Request for status can be made at any time by outside scholars/researchers, but should be submitted at least ten weeks in advance of the applicant's proposed arrival date.

Staff Contacts

For Travel, Lecture, and Conference awards, Mellon Grants, Tinker and Long Visiting Professorships, Visiting Resource Professors, Visiting Scholars, and Visiting Researchers
Carla Lañas
Assistant to the Directors
512.232.2409
clanas@austin.utexas.edu

Brazil Center
brazilcenter@austin.utexas.edu

Mexican Center
mexicancenter@austin.utexas.edu

Accounting
Stacia De León
512.232.2416
s.deleon@austin.utexas.edu

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