Chicano/Latino Research Center (CLRC) is a premier research institution, promoting cutting-edge work centering on cross-border perspectives linking the Americas.

An internationally recognized site for the support of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, the CLRC’s researchers bridge social scientific fields, policy studies, cultural studies, arts, and humanistic fields. We draw from quantitative, qualitative, archival and interpretative approaches, and our research spans the Americas: South, Central and North.

Our research is attentive to the diversity among Latin American and Latina/o populations and includes work on gender, race, class, nationality, history, sexuality, social movements, and postcolonial phenomena such as cultural memories, language(s) use and the formation of transnational imaginaries and identities.

Founded in 1992, the CLRC also has become a dynamic space for intellectual exchange and dialogue about statewide, national, and international questions related to Latina/os and Chicanos in California, the United States, and the Americas.

The Center supports Research Clusters and Working Groups, provides Individual Faculty Research Grants, organizes and sponsors conferences, offers Graduate Student Mini-grants, coordinates a unique and very successful Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, offers a Workshop series, and hosts a Distinguished Speaker series. We publish an annual Newsletter and a Working Paper series.