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Get a global perspective on Latino culture.
The Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies provides students with the critical skills to navigate a diverse and globally interdependent world through the study of Latinx arts, culture, history, literature, economy, and society.
With the department’s foundational roots in student-activism, and a long-standing partnership with Brooklyn College’s Department of Childhood, Bilingual, and Special Education and the college’s many interdisciplinary departments and programs, you will gain the knowledge to position yourself for graduate study to careers in the public to private sector.
PRLS History Undergraduate Information Graduate Information Career Advisement West Side Story (WSS): The Brooklyn Connection Students and Alumni Student Creative Works Resources PRLS Department Major/Minors Informational Pamphlet (pdf) PRLS Programs in Education Pamphlet (pdf)
An important and vital part of the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Department is our highly qualified faculty.
Alan A. Aja is professor and chair in the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. His rese...
Mike Mena is a Mexican American researcher and Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Men...
Carla Santamaria explores ways in which Puerto Rican urban music represents the challenges, forms...
NIMH Fellow (1987). Published articles based on her groundbreaking research “Latinas in Min...
Proclamation, Office of the President, Borough of Brooklyn
May 26, 2021
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
Proclamation, The Assembly—State of New York
Making the Impossible Possible: The Story of Puerto Rican Studies in Brooklyn College
Department Chair: Alan A. Aja Deputy Chair: María Pérez y González
1205 Boylan Hall E: prls@brooklyn.cuny.edu P: 718.951.5561 F: 718.951.4183
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