Faculty Spotlight: Hannah Gill -

*From left to right: James Dean, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, & Professor Hannah Gill, Director of the Latino Migration Project. Photo by Rhesa Versola*

Professor Hannah Gill, director of the Latino Migration Project, was recognized for engaged teaching for her work with the APPLES Service-Learning Global Course Guanajuato. The spring semester course trains bilingual students to understand the contemporary and historical complexities of immigration through research, service-learning with immigrants in North Carolina and travel to communities of migrant origin in Guanajuato, Mexico. The program fosters bi-national relationships with migrant families, secondary schools and foundations in Mexico. The Latino Migration Project is a public educational program on Latin American immigration and integration in North Carolina that includes undergraduate teaching. It is a collaborative initiative of the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Global Initiatives.

Read more on the Carolina Center for Public Service website and in the University Gazette.