What is the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies?
Widely regarded as one of the best Latin American studies program in the country, the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) continues its mission to foster knowledge and understanding of Latin America in Texas and throughout the United States. It accomplishes this through educational programs at the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. levels; through support of faculty and advanced graduate student research; and through scholarly conferences, lectures, and exchange programs with Latin America. Simultaneously, LLILAS contributes to the development of higher education in Latin America through collaborative research projects with Latin American scholars, sharing its academic resources, and by promoting study at the University of Texas (UT) by students from Latin America. LLILAS degree programs strive to balance a broadly based knowledge of Latin America with possible concentrations in virtually any traditional discipline, including the humanities, law, business, social and nat
