NEH funded speaker series launched

(October 27, 2024)

Westfair Online

Adrian Burgos Jr., Ph.D., professor of history and chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois became the first speaker in a series for Manhattanville University in Purchase, New York, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to highlight the Latinx experience in sports. Burgos is in residence at Manhattanville University during October 2024 as part of the NEH-funded program “Sport Studies in the 21st Century: Amplifying the Latinx Experience in Curricula, Conversation and Community,” part of Manhattanville University’s Sport Studies Program. Burgos’s residency is the first in this groundbreaking three-year project that aims to explore the multifaceted social, political, historical and cultural aspects of sport within Latinx communities. The event is free and open to the public.