09/18/2019 - 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...
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07/17/2019 - 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...
06/25/2019 - 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...
06/05/2019 - 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...
05/20/2019 - Kathleen Flores' work at The Refugee Center has been highlighted at Smile Politely. You can read the article in this...
04/28/2019 - 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...
04/20/2019 - 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...
04/20/2019 - 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...
04/17/2019 - 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...
04/03/2019 - 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...
04/02/2019 - 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...
03/28/2019 - 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...
03/27/2019 - 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...
03/13/2019 - Kristina Medina, our former alumni (P.H.D. 2012) has been awarded the very competitive...
03/08/2019 - 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...