The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at NYU is an interdisciplinary teaching, research, and public information program. Approximately 130 affiliated faculty represent 20 departments in Arts and Science and 8 professional schools, with special depth at the border between the social sciences and humanities and in the Andean, Brazilian, Iberian Atlantic and Caribbean regions. CLACS is designated as a Title VI National Resource Center (NRC), offering exciting MA programs, curricular innovation and research grants for faculty, Tinker Summer Research grants for Masters and Doctoral students across the university and Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships (FLAS) to support lesser taught languages of the Americas. CLACS also reaches well beyond NYU to promote public events and innovative training related to Latin America aimed at primary and secondary education, post-secondary institutions and the general public based in the New York area. Read more...