Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies

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Work Study Office Assistance

We are always looking for work study students (graduate and undergraduate) to help with our office work. Please email Sarah O'Meara Gonzalez if you are interested (omeara@rci.rutgers.edu)

Graduate Research Assistant--Active Search for March-April 2008

Historian seeks NYC-based graduate student in the Humanities or Social Sciences with strong Spanish language interviewing skills for work as Research Assistant. Project involves diverse work related to latino/Puerto Rican labor history. Hours flexible. Please email Aldo Lauria Santiago if interested (alauria@rutgers.edu)

Program Assistant [position filled]

The Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies will be hiring a Program Assistant who can help the department organize a conference in the Spring semester. The Conference Program Assistant will help us organize all aspects of the conference. The conference will focus on local conflicts over Latino immigrants in NJ and NY and will bring together scholars, activists, workers and policy specialists. The candidate must have basic administrative and communication skills and some knowledge of Spanish is preffered. Preferably, she/he will be familiar with Latino issues and communities in New Jersey. In addition she/he must be able to work independently and develop on basic initiatives offered by faculty. Requires at least a 5 hour per week commitment, some travel within New Jersey. Pay starts at $11/hour. Please email Sarah O'meara Gonzalez if interested. Omeara@rci.rutgers.edu

Part Time Instructors

We are looking for part time faculty capable of teaching mid-level and specialized courses in Latino and Caribbean studies. Once a week format, evening hours available. Pay scale starts at $3400 per course. Ph.D. preferred, MA or advanced Ph.D. studies/abd required. Contact Dept. Chair, Aldo Lauria Santiago, if interested (alauria@rutgers.edu) with course proposals. Courses scheduled approximately 9 months before start of semester.

We are particularly interested in courses on:

  • Advanced courses on Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans
  • English-speaking Caribbean themes
  • Haitian studies
  • Caribbean Politics
  • Asians in the Caribbean Basin
  • African Diaspora in the Caribbean Basin
  • Caribbean Cinema//Latinas/os and Cinema
  • Women in/from the Caribbean
  • English-Caribbean-Origin Communities in the US
  • Cuban Studies themes
  • The Caribbean and European history, 1492-1898
  • History of the Dominican Republic
  • Caribbean Slavery
  • Caribbean archeology
  • Politics in Puerto Rico
  • Latinos and Education
  • The US/Mexico Border
  • Mexican American history/US Southwestern history
  • Latino Poverty and economic development
  • Latinos and African American comparative themes
  • Ethnography of Latin American Emigration
  • Latinos and Journalism/Media
  • Group Project Service-learning in NJ Latino Communities