The Center for Latin American and Iberian Research (CLAIR) is devoted to enriching the academic study of Latin America and Iberia at the University of California, Santa Barbara. CLAIR supports graduate and faculty research related to the histories, languages, literatures, and cultures of the peoples of Latin America and Iberia, from antiquity to the present day, and of their diasporas in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, including the Latino/a communities of the United States.
CLAIR draws on UCSB's extraordinary breadth and depth of faculty and student expertise in these areas to promote interdisciplinary research, scholarly development, and cultural events across departmental, disciplinary, and divisional boundaries. CLAIR sponsors and organizes events such as lectures, workshops, film screenings, and performances; provides funding to graduate students for innovative research; and fosters research collaborations between students, faculty, and other scholars at UCSB.
In this mission, CLAIR complements the curricular work of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, which is devoted to providing UCSB students with rich, interdisciplinary training at undergraduate and graduate level through its minor, major, and MA degree programs in Latin American and Iberian Studies and diverse curricular offerings.
CLAIR is housed within the Area Global Initiative (AGI) at UCSB. As an AGI member center, CLAIR also collaborates closely with other AGI member centers to promote cutting-edge research across the regional boundaries of traditional area studies centers.
