2019-11-26
- Florencia Henshaw has been named as a recipient of the 2019 LAS Academic Professional Award. The LAS Academic Professional Award honors academic professionals for their outstanding contributions to their home unit, the college, and the campus by advancing the mission of teaching, research, and public service of our institution. The award is well deserved,...
- 2019-11-21 - Florencia Henshaw has been selected to be one of the six members of the Editorial Advisory Board for ACTFL's publication "The Language Educator." The Language Educator, is a publication for ACTFL (American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages) that provides educators of all languages at all levels with a single, comprehensive source of news and...
- 2019-11-07 - Raquel Goebel is the recipient of the “Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Partnership Grant”, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The award is part of a cross-university initiative within the Big Ten Academic Alliance. Raquel will collaborate with colleagues from Michigan State and University of Chicago in developing an online model of LCTL instruction reflecting...
- 2019-10-21 - Our undergraduate academic advisor for Spanish, Tasha Robles, has received the title promotion to Senior Academic Advisor. Congratulations Tasha!
- 2019-10-16 - Prof. Fornoff has received a competitive Research Board Book Subvention grant for her co-edited book, Timescales: Ecological Temporalities Across Disciplines which will be forthcoming with the prestigious University of Minnesota Press.
- 2019-10-07 - Prof. Osuji, a former major in Spanish and Portuguese who graduated in 2001 and went on to Harvard (MA) and UCLA (PhD), just published Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race with NYU Press. The book compares the experiences of black-white couples in Brazil and the United States.
- 2019-09-18 - Ann Abbott will receive the Community Impact Award from the C-U Immigration Forum. The award is for exceptional commitment to serving and advocating for local immigrants in our community. Prof. Abbott will be honored for her work as a leader in the teaching and promotion of civic engagement and community service learning. The event will be held on Saturday, Sept. 21, at 3 p.m.,...
- 2019-07-17 - Eduardo Ledesma has been awarded the Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar award beginning in AY 2019-2020 and continuing through 2023-2024. These awards are designed to recognize tenured faculty members in LAS who are established or emerging leaders with exceptionally strong scholarly recognition and significant promise for continued achievement. ...
- 2019-06-25 - Phoebe Lauer, of Chicago, and a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep, was offered an English Teaching Assistant Fulbright in the Canary Islands, Spain, where she will assist English teachers in early childhood and elementary school classrooms. As an undergraduate, Lauer studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain, where she also volunteered as an ESL instructor. Lauer graduated from Illinois in May with...
- 2019-06-05 - Prof. Carolyn Fornoff has been one of five Assistant Professors from across campus selected to participate in the 2019-2020 National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity – Faculty Success Program (NCFDD) organized by the Provost Office. This program is intended for tenure-track and tenured faculty members who are looking for the perfect combination of empirically tested methods to improve...
- 2019-05-20 - Kathleen Flores' work at The Refugee Center has been highlighted at Smile Politely. You can read the article in this link.
2019-04-28 - Ander Beristain, PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese has been selected for the Teaching Excellence Award by the Illinois Student Government. The Teaching Excellence Awards are the highest honor that the Illinois Student Government gives to educators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For this award, students nominate educators that have had a...- 2019-04-20 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez has been awarded the Criticism & Interpretive Theory Junior Research Fellowship for the years 2019-21 given by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. This fellowship support is for her current book in progress, A Body Exposed: The Aesthetics of Sex, Death, and Mexicanness, which contends that the representation of violence...
- 2019-04-20 - Nicole Majca, who graduated from the Spanish BAT program in 2017, was the recipient of the Illinois chapter of the Association of the Colleges of Teacher Education’s (IACTE) Outstanding Beginning Teacher Award (OBTA) on April 9. It is a competitive state award that honors teachers in the first two years of their career. The UIUC OBTA recipient is nominated by someone in the...
- 2019-04-17 - Prof. Joyce Tolliver has been selected as the recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award. The Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award recognizes “a faculty member who has provided extraordinary leadership contributions across many dimensions of shared governance (e.g., committee work, chair of task force, service in the Senate) that advance the excellence of a unit, a college, and/or the...