More than a Scholar: A Symposium to Honor Dr. Edna Viruell-Fuentes' Legacy in Scholarship, Public Health, and Higher Education
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Department of Latina/Latino Studies
- Date
- Feb 17, 2021 12:00 - 3:00 pm
- Cost
- FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
- Registration
- Registration
- lls-studies@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 217-265-0370
- Views
- 105
- Originating Calendar
- Latina/Latino Studies Event Calendar
This symposium will center on three panels that feature people who have worked with and learned from Dr. Viruell-Fuentes in various capacities, including research collaborators, former students, and public health professionals. The symposium is a space to gather to reflect on and honor Dr. Viruell-Fuentes' outstanding scholarship, mentorship, and impact on the field of public health. Dr. Viruell-Fuentes passed away on August 23, 2020. She was a leading scholar in the area of race, health, and Latina/o immigration. She was most recently working on a Fulbright-supported ethnographic study of the ways in which return migration (whether voluntary or due to deportation) to a migrant-sending community in central Mexico impacted the health and well-being of returned migrants, their families, and communities.
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