2021-05-12
- Following the determination by the Campus Promotion and Tenure Committee, the Provost has recommended the promotions of both Melissa Bowles and John Karam to the rank of Full Professor, effective August 16, 2021. As stated in Provost Communication 9,...
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2021-05-05 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes has been awarded a six-month 2021 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty. The Fellowship is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Institute for ...
2021-05-04 - Professor Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded the 2021 LEAP (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors) Award. This highly competitive award was created as a way to foster excellence and...- 2021-04-29 - Our very own Ann Abbott has been the recipient of the inaugural 2021 Xiaohui Zhang Diversity and Community Engagement Award! This award, which is open to both faculty and students, recognizes an SLCL member who has contributed to the School's...
- 2021-04-26 - PhD candidate Carmen Gallegos has been awarded a Whitten Fellowship from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies for her project “Postcards in the Marketplace: 19th and...
- 2021-04-23 - Spanish PhD students Jone Vicente Urrutia (Lit/Cult) and Ander Beristain Murillo (Linguistics) have been selected for the Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Teaching Award. The Department of Spanish and Portuguese grants two awards ($250 each) to...
2021-04-22 - The Graduate College has awarded our PhD candidate Irati Hurtado Ruiz a Dissertation Travel Grant to conduct research in Spain during Fall 2021. This Graduate College Travel Grant is a very competitive award at the campus level and we should be proud of Irati's fantastic...
2021-04-22 - Our PhD candidate Ander Beristain has been awarded an LAS Impact Award for his efforts making online learning fun and engaging during the COVID-19 pandemic. The LAS Impact Awards were created to honor those who’ve gone...- 2021-04-12 - PhD student Caio Albernaz Siqueira has been awarded a Global South Languages Fellowship to study Quechua for AY 2021-22. The goal of this fellowship program is to provide support for graduate students interested in the study of Less Commonly Taught Languages...
- 2021-04-12 - Professor Pilar Martínez-Quiroga has been recognized with the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff. Only one annual award is given in ...
- 2021-04-12 - Ander Beristain Murillo and Jone Vicente Urrutia have won the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants. This is a very competitive award for the most outstanding graduate teaching...
2021-04-08 - Our very recent alumna Dr. Liz Moreno-Chuquen (Ph.D. 2019) has been awarded a very competitive 2021 NEH Summer Stipend for her project, “Visual Narratives of Afroporteños: Presence and Social Prestige in Alexander Witcomb’s...- 2021-04-04 - Join us in congratulating Daniel Pérez-Astros who has been awarded a competitive Lemann Graduate Fellowship for AY 2021-22 for his project "Post-dictatorship, Trauma, and Testimony in Brazil and Venezuela." ¡Felicidades Daniel!
- 2021-03-26 - Join us in congratulating Ander Beristain and Eider Etxebarria who have been awarded 2021-2022 SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships. This one-year very competitive fellowship offers students a 12-month...
- 2021-03-25 - Prof. Salvatore Callesano has been awarded the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award. The faculty selected for this award are nominated by the students, and the winners are elected by the Illinois Student Government. As stated in his...