Virgnia Carbonell received a Summer Instructional Development Fellowship from CITL to redesign the Department’s online S200 and S250 courses.

Leslie Del Carpio received a College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Grant in Support of Research and Creative Activity for her project entitled “Diverse voices and experiences: Insights from SHL students and instructors in the Midwest.”

Melissa Dinverno was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year for her book project Mediating Memory: Federico García Lorca and the Legacies of the Past in Democratic Spain. She was also granted the Jean Monnet Faculty Travel & Research Grant from the Institute for European Studies for archival work on her co-curated exhibit Desde el exilio al centro: el archivo de la Fundación Federico García Lorca (opening in October 2024), as well as an IAS Collaboration Award in support of Mapping Material Stories: a Digital Network of García Lorca Archives. In May 2024, Professor Dinverno published an edited volume, Lorca y el archivo: diálogos con el porvenir (Iberoamericana Vervuert) to which she contributed the introduction and two chapters. She was also granted a 2023 MIND (Motivación, Inspiración, Dedicación) Award for Impactful Teaching. 

Cesar Felix-Brasdefer was selected as the recipient of the 2023 James P. Holland and Morley Award for Exemplary Teaching and Service. This award was created to recognize College tenure-line faculty who have proven to be outstanding teachers throughout their career and exemplified dedication to students coupled with innovative pedagogy. He has also been appointed Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.

Laura Gurzynski-Weiss was awarded a $1500 international mobility grant from OVPIA in support of her participation in the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) World Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (August 10-16 2024). Gurzynski-Weiss just completed her tenure as Secretary General of AILA.

Edgar Illas published his monograph, The Magma of War: An Ontology of the Global (Routledge, 2024).

Alejandro Mejias-Lopez published Contemporary Colonialities: Mexico and Beyond, co-authored with Kathleen Myers, Beth Boyd, Pablo Garcia Loaeza, and Cara Kinnally (University of Toronto Press, 2024).

Kathleen Myers published Un País de Pastores: Historias de Tradición e Innovación (Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2023), A Country of Shepherds: Stories of a Changing Mediterranean Landscape (Cambridge:  Open Book Publishers, 2024), and was the lead author of Contemporary Colonialities: Mexico and Beyond, co-authored with a handful of other IU faculty and former graduate students (Beth Boyd, Pablo García Loaeza, Cara Kinnally, and Alejandro Mejías-López, University of Toronto Press, 2024).  These projects were funded by the IU Presidential Arts and Humanities, CAHI, CLACS, and Institute for Advance Study. Professor Myers also helped host the International Nahuatl Studies Conference at IU in April 2024.

Sandra Ortiz was inducted to FACET, IU’s Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching. She was also awarded a Mosaic Fellowship for Active Learning in Online Learning Environments.

Jonathan Risner received a Jean Monnet Faculty Travel & Research Grant from IU’s Institute of European Studies and an IU Presidential Arts & Humanities Conference & Workshop Travel Grant which enabled him to attend a conference on home movies in Pamplona, Spain, in June 2024.

Steven Wagschal was awarded a Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Title VI Research grant and an International Mobility Grant from the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs (OVPIA) to conduct research in Costa Rica and participate in a symposium at the Universidad de Costa Rica’s Centro de Investigaciones sobre Diversidad Cultural y Estudios Regionales (CIDICER) on human-jaguar interactions past and present. He was also a Career Connections Teaching Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences.