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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

2019-04-03 - The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese AATSP’s flagship research journal Hispania has selected Pilar Martínez-Quiroga’s article, “La detective Bruna Husky de Rosa Montero: Feminismo, distopía y conciencia cyborg” (Hispania 101.2, 2018, pp....

2019-04-02 - Tasha Robles, who had recently been awarded the “University Advisor of the Year” award by the Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha, Inc., has been recognized as Advisor of the Year award by the University of Illinois United Greek Council (UGC).  This award is student originated and all campus...

2019-03-28 - Prof. Eduardo Ledesma has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer stipend for his current book project "Blind Cinema: Visually Impaired Filmmakers and Technologies of Sight". 

2019-03-27 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez's doctoral dissertation, “México Necrótico: Queer Readings of the Politics of Death” was awarded the 2019 Latin American Studies Association  (LASA) Mexico Section Best Dissertation Award. The  Latin American Studies Association is the largest...

2019-03-13 - Kristina Medina, our former alumni (P.H.D. 2012) has been awarded the very competitive American Council of...

2019-03-08 - Prof. John Karam has been awarded the very competitive and prestigious  Fulbright Scholar award to conduct research in Brazil for the next two summers. As a Fulbright recipient, John will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with international partners in educational, political,...

2019-03-04 - The Illinois Club has recognized the contributions of two students majoring in Spanish, Emily Boehm (BAT) and Mathew Schultz.    Emily was the recipient of the Isabelle Purnell Education Award, which is open to those earning a...