News

04/25/2018 - Liz Moreno Chuquen, a PhD student in the department of Spanish and Portuguese, is this year's recipient of the Douglas A. Kibbee Prize. The Douglas A. Kibbee Prize was created by colleagues, friends...

04/16/2018 - Ann Abbott recently published a piece in the Chicago...

04/13/2018 - Emily DiFilippo has been selected as a co-winner of the prize for best graduate student research (IPRH Prizes for Resarch in the Humanities), for her article entitled “Post-Op in the Real World:...

04/10/2018 - Amanda Rector has been awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant for her project "Citizenship and Belonging in the In-Between: Transatlantic Migration to Venezuela and Brazil, 1830-1914"

03/21/2018 - Carolyn Fornoff (PhD University of Pennsylvania) and Vincent Cervantes (PhD University of Southern California) will be joining the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as Assistant Professors in...

03/05/2018 - Amanda Rector has been awarded a Lemann Graduate Fellowship for 2018-19 for her project "Citizenship and Belonging in the In-Between: Transatlantic Migrations in Venezuela and Brazil, 1830-1914".

02/19/2018 - The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities has selected Samantha Good as an Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the Illinois Program for Research in the...

02/18/2018 - The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities has awarded Juan Suárez Ontaneda one of their very competitive Graduate Student Fellowships for the AY 2018–19. Juan will be an IPRH fellow for the...

01/09/2018 - Prof. Melissa Bowles has been awarded an Arnold O. Beckman Award, which is given to projects that show special distinction and promise, for her research project on "Instructed...

01/08/2018 - Eric Calderwood (affiliated faculty, Department of Comparative and World Literatures) has been selected as a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professor Scholar for the College of LAS for 2017-2019.

01/08/2018 - Prof. Dede F. Ruggles (affiliated faculty, Department of Landscape Architecture) has been awarded a NEH Fellowship for her research project "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage...

12/25/2017 - Alumnus Charles Larenas was the recipient of the Distinguished Leadership Service Award at The 4th Annual Immigrant Welcome Awards. For...

12/25/2017 - Alumnus Pamela Cappas-Toro has been named a finalist for the national...

12/25/2017 - Congratulations to Dr. Vanesa Landrus for receiving an ACA (Achievement and Contribution Award) for Service! A well-deserved recognition!...

12/25/2017 - Our alumnus Iker González-Allende has been awarded a Leland and Dorothy Olson Professorship at the University of Nebraska. The title, which he will keep for 5 years, is intended to recognize...