Annual Newsletter
Check out our Upcoming Events
In addition to our Friday Lecture Series, CLAS hosts a variety of other events.
Learn Nahuatl, Quechua, or Haitian Creole this Autumn 2023!
Sign up for one of our CLAS-sponsored Special Language Courses this Autumn 2023 Quarter.
Community Resources for Immigrants and Advocates
CLAS is proud to share a wealth of resources for immigrants and advocates.
Outreach: Library Access Grants
CLAS and Stanford University Libraries offer library access grants for faculty from qualified U.S. minority serving institutions and community colleges to conduct research relating to Latin America.
Our Mission
CLAS' mission is to foster an academic community that serves as a multidisciplinary platform to enable learning from and engaging with the Americas, understood as the diverse ethnic, linguistic, cultural, biological and historical geography shared with the United States and Canada. CLAS is committed to “promote the public welfare by exercising an influence in behalf of humanity and civilization” (Stanford University founding grant) and to advance scientific knowledge that strengthens social, economic and environmental justice, sustainability, inclusion and democracy in our hemisphere.
2022-23 Tinker Visiting Professors
2022-23 Tinker Visiting Professors
Arturo Izurieta Valery has extensive experience in research and management of protected areas and local communities in islands, emphasizing the relationship between environmental health and human wellbeing. He has worked for more than 30 years on strategic projects and facilitating relations between government authorities, local actors, academia and science from Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, Australia, Malaysia and Central America…
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