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  • Izaro
    Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship
    2025-05-14 - Graduate student Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka has been awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year for her dissertation project “Acquisition of Spanish Stress by English Speakers”. This is a very competitive campus wide fellowship and it is a achievement to be celebrated...
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    Prof. Silvina Montrul, recipient of a 2025-6 Fullbright Award
    2025-05-14 - Professor Silvina Montrul has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright award to conduct research in Brazil. Congratulations, Silvina! 
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    Prof. Salvatore Callesano, recipient of seed grant through BRIDGE strategic partnership initiative
    2025-05-03 - Professor Salvatore Callesano, along with co-Principal Investigators Jonathan Dunn (Linguistics) and Zsuzsanna Fagyal (French and Italian), has received a seed grant for their project Computational Sociolinguistics and the Impacts of Language Models through the ...
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    Karen Pasetto Olevar & Edwin Rodriguez Muñoz, recipients of Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowships
    2025-05-03 - Congratulations to graduate students Karen Pasetto Olevar and Edwin Rodriguez Muñoz who have been awarded Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowships for Summer 2025 for their research projects in Argentina and Colombia. Karen's research is part of her...
  • Photo of Araceli Pantoja
    Araceli Pantoja, recipient of the SLCL Xiaohui Zhang Diversity & Community Engagement Award
    2025-04-18 -  Graduate student Araceli Pantoja has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the SLCL Xiaohui Zhang Diversity & Community Engagement Award in recognition of her research and community efforts in advancing first-generation students...
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    Sara Castro-Cantú, recipient of the LAS Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants Award
    2025-04-15 -  Graduate student Sara Castro-Cantú has received the LAS Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants Award. This is a college-wide competitive teaching award and is testament to Sara's excellence in teaching and pedagogy. Congratulations, Sara!  
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    Prof. Anna Torres-Cacoullos awarded HRI faculty research prize
    2025-04-15 - Prof. Anna Torres-Cacoullos has been awarded the 2025 Humanities Research Institute faculty research prize for her article “...
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    Beatriz Jiménez, recipient of SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship & Douglas A. Kibbee Prize
    2025-04-08 - Graduate student Beatriz Jiménez has been selected as anSLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her dissertation project “The search for tesoros in Mexico: Shifting Discourses and Representations of Enforced Disappearances in Mexican Cinema,” a project for which is has also received the 2025...
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    Eunyoung Yang, recipient of Graduate Student Essay Award from Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
    2025-03-28 - Graduate student Eunyoung Yang has been selected as the 2025 winner of the Pilar Sáenz Graduate Student Essay Award for her paper “Transpacific Voyages: Chino Maritime Workers and Colonial Mobility in Eighteenth-Century New Spain”. This national level...
  • Photo of Eduardo Ledesma and Pilar Martínez Quiroga
    Profs. Eduardo Ledesma & Pilar Martínez Quiroga awarded HRI Summer Faculty Fellowships
    2025-03-07 - Prof. Eduardo Ledesma and Prof. Pilar Martínez Quiroga have both been selected to receive 2025 Summer Faculty Fellowships from the Humanities Research Institute (HRI). HRI’s Summer Faculty Fellowships "are designed to help faculty at the University of...
  • Ilaria Strocchia, recipient of HRI Graduate Fellowship
    2025-02-16 - Congratulations to graduate student, Ilaria Strocchia, who has been named one of the 2025-2026 Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Fellows for this year's theme, "Story and Place." Congratulations, Ilaria!
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    Prof. José Ignacio Hualde honored with two-volume festschrift
    2025-02-04 - Prof. José Ignacio Hualde has been honored with a two-volume festschrift, Jose Ignazio Hualderen Omenez: Ikerketak Fonologiaz eta Diakroniaz. The festschrift was edited by Julen Manterola, Joseba Lakarra, and Gorka Elordieta and was published in the Annuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca “Julio...
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    Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Bowles, on the publication of her co-authored book The Acquisition of Spanish
    2024-12-05 - Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Bowles on the publication of her co-authored book (with Eve Zyzik) ...
  • Photo of Eduardo Ledesma
    Congratulations to Prof. Eduardo Ledesma, on the publication of his book Expanding Cinemas
    2024-11-25 - Congratulations to Prof. Eduardo Ledesma on the publication of his book Expanding Cinemas: Experimental Filmmaking Across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic Since 1960 (Suny Press, 2024). This is the first book on experimental cinemas of Latin American and...
  • Lorena Alarcón, recipient of a SLATE Doctoral Dissertation Grant
    2024-11-22 - Congratulations to graduate student, Lorena Alarcón, who has received a SLATE Doctoral Dissertation Grant to support her dissertation project, titled "Social justice in language assessment: A validation study to examine...

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