Prof. Mónica García Blizzard is the recipient of a 2024 International Latino Book Award Honorable Mention for her book, The White Indians of...

Prof. Mariselle Meléndez has been featured in a number of venues across campus, including an LAS story showcasing faculty in Humanities  (https://las.illinois...

Senior Academic Advisor, Brady Hughes, was featured in the most recent LAS Dean's newsletter in a staff spotlight piece that showcases not only his work with Spanish majors and minors but also his recent MA in musicology and his...

Assistant Director of Introductory Spanish Michelle Dutton was awarded 2024 SLCL Summer Fellowship for Specialized Faculty, for her project, “Why do Midwestern university students study Spanish?: A qualitative study...

Director of Undergraduate Studies Ann Abbott was selected by the University of Illinois System for the 2024-25 cohort of OpEd/Public Voices Fellowship! It will provide her and 19 other faculty members...

Congratulations to graduate student Jonathan Pye, who has won the Helmut Esau Award for best graduate student paper at the recent conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) for his paper, entitled "...

Congratulations to Prof. Salvatore Callesano, who has been awarded a Health Disparities Research LRP from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). His...

Congratulations to graduate student Lázaro García Angulo, who has been awarded the 2024 Marianne A. Ferber Award by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies for...

The College of LAS has featured a news story on SPAN 232 in honor of the course's 20th anniversary. Prof. Ann Abbott created the community-...

Prof. Salvatore Callesano has been recognized as an LAS LEAP (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors) Scholar for outstanding contributions and potential in research and...