
Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez
@melli75
Profesora Boricua. Latina/o Studies, Puerto Rican Studies. I love music. #histed #wmnhist Author of Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 UI Press
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Professor Velázquez (Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez) has been awarded a 2025-26 Campus Fellowship from Humanities Research Institute at Illinois for her project “Genealogies of Empowerment and the Makings of Home: Latina/o Activism at the University of Illinois, 1970–1992." Congratulations! lls.illinois.edu/news/2025-03-1…




The Outstanding Dissertation in Disability History prize, in partnership w/the Disability Histories series & DisabilityHistoryAssociation, is now open for submissions! Visit go.illinois.edu/DisabilityHist… for submission guidelines. #DisabilityStudies #DisabilityTwitter #DisabilityHistory #dishist



Prof. Velázquez (Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez) received a Campus Research Board grant from Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. The grant will fund her project, De Isla a Chicago: Stories of Puerto Rican Teachers, 1970-1990. Congratulations! lls.illinois.edu/news/2025-04-0…








Interesting panel on the status of history of education across the world , from our various societies. Obvious, and sad, that we are linked by a disinvestment in our field no matter where we are. (History of Education Society being represented well!) #histed #ISCHE2025


Congrats, ArCasia D. James-Gallaway, PhD , for winning the 2025 ISCHE Early Career Conference Paper Award! #Histed ISCHE History of Education Society

