The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at New York University is an interdisciplinary teaching, research, and public information program. It is a home for a small core of dedicated CLACS faculty and a touchstone for approximately 130 affiliated faculty in 20 departments in Arts and Science as well as 8 professional schools, with special depth at the border between the social sciences and humanities and in the Andean, Brazilian, Iberian Atlantic and Caribbean regions.

CLACS is designated as a Title VI National Resource Center (NRC), offering exciting MA programs, curricular innovation for Masters and Doctoral students across the university and Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships (FLAS) to support lesser taught languages of the Americas. Faculty from across the university take advantage of a variety of research grants, including individual research grants, collaborative faculty working groups and interdisciplinary, co-taught courses. The Center provides of coordinated training to assure the improvement of research competence in the disciplines and graduate students may also apply for summer funding for Master's project or dissertation research.

CLACS also reaches well beyond NYU to promote public events and training related to Latin America. CLACS is a leader in innovative training and outreach programs aimed at primary and secondary education, as well as postsecondary institutions based in the New York area, a forum for symposia, conferences, colloquium series, and film series and a clearinghouse for information and coordinated scholarly interaction across the hemisphere. Read more...