Complete Institutional History of the Center
CLACX was awarded a Vanderbilt Sesquicentennial Award in 2023 for the project, “Somos VU: Bringing Together Student Organizations, Alumni, and the Institutional History of CLACX.” Funds from the sesquicentennial award supported the creation of a 100-page document summarizing the history of the center from 1947 to the present and the creation of a digital photographic archive. Estelle Shaya, A&S Founders Medalist in 2023, compiled the historical narrative with guidance from Marshall Eakin, Paula Covington, and Avery Dickins de Girón. The document traces the founding of the Institute for Brazilian Studies at Vanderbilt in 1947 and its evolution over the years, the creation of the Latino and Latina Studies program in 2013, and the combination of these programs as CLACX in 2021. Sources of data for the institutional narrative include interviews with faculty currently or previous associated with the center(s) and program (Marshall Eakin, Jane Landers, Edward Fischer, Paula Covington, Edward Wright-Rios, Earl Fitz, Gretchen Selcke, Avery Dickins de Girón), as well as documents located in Special Collections, Center records, and other previously written histories partially tracing the Center’s history. To view the complete document, please click below.