About the Latinx Lab
Funded by the Mellon Foundation (2025-2028), the Latinx Lab for Storytelling and Social Justice at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) serves as a hub for humanities-based scholarship in Latinx/Chicanx Studies. It centers fiction and nonfiction narratives as fundamental for social justice through innovative research, pedagogy, and programming. The Latinx Lab aims to institutionalize its activities within the university through intentional collaboration and partnerships with other campus projects and initiatives that support the indefinite growth of Latinx humanities on campus. Our campus collaborators include the Institute for Black Intellectual Innovation, the Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History, and Pollak Library University Archives and Special Collections. Our off-campus collaborators include faculty at various institutions of higher education, and local community partners. Additionally, the Lab seeks to leverage its strategic location in Southern California to serve as a central hub for intellectual inquiry and collaboration for Latinx humanities projects through its grant activities. Within a context in which U.S.-Latinx texts are being intentionally removed from libraries and websites, the Latinx Lab seeks to create, collect, preserve and make accessible Latinx stories
This program is open and available to all who are interested in participating, regardless of race, sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, or other protected statuses
