Honors and Awards

Núria Alishio-Caballero, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the J. M. Hill prize for an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper. Núria also received a summer FLAS to study the advanced level of Catalan at the Escola Oficial d'Idiomes in Barcelona, Catalonia.

Nadia Barreiro, M.A. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the CAHI Graduate Conference Travel Award. 

Anthony Brandy, M.A. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received a summer FLAS to study the Mixtec Language program in Oaxaca, Mexico, offered through San Diego State University’s Global Seminars. 

Andrea Carrillo, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the 2023-2024 President’s Diversity Dissertation Fellowship. 

Andreina Colina, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received the Grant-in-Aid of Doctoral Research Award.

Jingyi Guo, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received the NSF Linguistics Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her dissertation research titled “The acquisition of anaphoric direct objects in a third language: A variationist perspective.” Jingyi also received the 2023-2024 College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, the Grant-in-Aid of Doctoral Research Award, and the Timothy J. Rogers Summer Dissertation Fellowship. 

Stacey Hanson, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received the Hadassah R. Weiner Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant. Stacey also received the College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award. 

Marcela Lemos, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, has been accepted to the HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholars Program, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities (IDAH) at Indiana University Bloomington. Marcela also received the 2023 William Slaymaker Graduate Fellowship, and the Best Graduate Student Essay in Latino Literature, Arts & Culture in the 2022-2023 Luis Dávila Student Essay Competition. She was awarded the Rising Star Teacher of the Year by American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Indiana Chapter and was the Connect Challenge Non-Profit and Social Good Finalist in the Walter Center for Career Achievement’s Pitch Competition for the College of Arts and Sciences. She received funding for Graduate Student Presenters at the 12th American Portuguese Studies Association International Conference from Foundation for Luso-American Development (FLAD), and travel grant from Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 

Giada Mirelli, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the Doctoral Student Award for Academic Achievement (DSAAA). 

Matt Peisen, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the Spring College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award. Matt also received the CAHI Graduate Conference Travel Award. 

Matthew Pollock, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received the Spring College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award. 

Adam Singh, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the Merle E. Simmons Research Award. 

Estefany Sosa, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received a summer FLAS to study the Náhuatl Language and Culture. She will study at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara and the Nuhua community in Los Puentes, Hidalgo. 

José Luis Suárez Morales, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the Spring College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award. 

Lais Lara Oliveira Santos Vanin, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, has been awarded one of the two Dissertation Fellowships for the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar, Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom: Interconnections in Comparative Dialogue. Lais’ dissertation is titled “Narratives of Hair Transition: An Ethnography of Female Black Bodies in Brazilian Literature.” 

Madison Wray, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received the College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award.   

Taís Xavier Carvalho, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, received the College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award.

Ph.D. conferred:

Mackenzie Coulter-Kern
Kane Ferguson
Ricardo Martins
Juan Morilla Romero
Matthew Pollock
José Luis Suárez Morales
Jamelyn Wheeler

M.A. conferred: 

Taylor Brooks
Ariana Teegarden

Recent Graduates 

Christie Cole, currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, has accepted an offer for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor Spanish, specializing in Peninsular literature and culture, at the University of North Dakota. 

Matthew Pollock, Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics, has accepted a tenure track position of Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Louisiana State University Shreveport.

José Luis Suárez Morales, Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures has accepted a tenure track position at Hampton University in Virginia.