Prof. Hinda Seif teaches courses related to Latina/o/x experience, women of color, Mexico and Latin America, Chicago, and the interactions of social locations that feature race, sex, gender, class, nationality, and sexual orientation. After her earlier work on Latina/o/e immigrant youth activism, her current research focuses on the ways that Latina artists are transforming Chicago, including how the city is represented and imagined.
Prof. Seif leads a UIS/UIC community partnership with the Chicago Monuments Project (). She is a research associate with University of California San Diego's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and serves on the faculty board of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Press. She has published in venues including Latino Studies, Diálogo; ³Òé²Ô·¡°ù´Ç²õ (Mexico); Journal of Language and Sexuality; and Recovering the US Latino Digital Heritage (USLDH) Collections (University of Houston and Arte Público Press).
To see/hear more about Prof. Seif's research collaborations with Latina artists in Chicago & Mexico City;
Artists' Visions: Latina/x & LGBTQ Histories, Monuments for Chicago's Future (Chicago Monuments Project Community Partner Panel, 5/21)
Women Warriors Who Open Pathways and Spread Flowers: Lesbian Feminism in Mexico
A Mexicana-Chicana Cultural Workerâ¿¿s LGBTQ Experience - Diana SolÃÂs