Associate Professor Eduardo Ledesma received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities for faculty research. 

The Honorable Mention was awarded for his article, “Staging the Spanish Civil War: History and Re-enactment in Joris Ivens’ The Spanish Earth (1937).  The IPRH Prize recognizes outstanding humanities research at the University of Illinois. With Megan Gargiulo garnering the Best Graduate Essay Prize, that makes for an excellent showing for Spanish and Portuguese in this year's awards!

If you wish to read it, Prof. Ledesma's article is published in the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24741604.2020.1684716