Dr. Kanellos was recently honored by the City of Houston for his work with the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage” project
Hispanic Heritage Month came to an end last week, but we would be remiss if we did not mention the recent honor bestowed upon Dr. Nicolas Kanellos, Director of Arte Público Press, by Mayor Annise Parker. As part of the City of Houston’s observance of Hispanic Heritage Month, Kanellos received the Mayor’s Hispanic Heritage Award for Education in recognition for his work with the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage” research program.
In the early 1970s Dr. Kanellos founded Revista Chicana-Riqueña, later renamed The Americas Review, and this labor evolved into Arte Público Press which found a home at the University of Houston when he accepted a position here in 1980. Beginning in 1992, Arte Público began the formal work for the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage” program. The 2013 catalog of complete titles can be found here.
The University of Houston Special Collections congratulates Dr. Kanellos and his team of scholars whose efforts progress the work of this research program. For those interested in learning more about the nation’s largest and most vibrant Latino publishing house, we remind you how pleased we are to offer the Arte Público Manuscripts Collection and U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Records for study as part of our Hispanic Collections and invite you to visit us at your next opportunity.