Ricardo Martins, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, earned the IU Distinguished Latino Graduate Student Award (2018); Student Voice Award for Outstanding Portuguese Teacher from Indiana chapter of the AATSP (2017); and the Be More Phenomenal Award, City of Bloomington Commission on Hispanic and Latino Affairs (2018).

Taís Carvalho, M.A. student in Portuguese: Won third place in the IU 3-minute Thesis Competition (2018).

Laís Lara Vanin, M.A. student in Portuguese, won the Martins-Sadlier Prize for Best Paper in Brazilian Studies with her essay “Senzala, gueto e quartinho de empregada: quando o negro sai da periferia em três contos de Emi Bulhões” (2018)