Honors and Awards

Núria Alishio-Caballero, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award.        

Roberto Amado, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, received the Spanish and Portuguese Travel Grant.

Leonardo Amaral, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, received the J.M. Hill Prize for an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper.

Caroline Amodeo William, M.A. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received a summer FLAS to study Portuguese at the Universidad de Coimbra.

Santi Arróniz, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Fellowship (Completion) and Travel Award. Santi also received the Hadassah R. Weiner Pre-Dissertation travel Grant.

Nick Blaker, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received the Spanish and Portuguese AI Teaching Award.

Andreina Colina-Marin, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received the Irsay Graduate Fellowship (The Irsay Institute). Andreina also received the Spanish and Portuguese Travel Grant.

Ollin Garcia Pliego, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the Merle E. Simmons Research Award.

Rachel Garza, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received the College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award. Rachel also received the CRRES Graduate Student Research Award.

Jessica Jurado Eraso, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received the Spanish and Portuguese Travel Grant and the College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award. Jessica also received the J.M. Hill Prize for an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper.

Bruna Kalil Othero Fernandes, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, received the Doctoral Student Award for Academic Achievement. Bruna also received the Colins LLC Teaching Award, the International Enhancement Grant from the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, the Kinsey Institute Scholars of Sexology Fellowship, and the Jean Monnet Grant Travel and Research Grant from the Institute for European Studies.

Laís Lara Vanin, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, received the CAHI Graduate Capstone Research Award and the CRRES Graduate Student Research Award. Laís also received the Graduate School Grant-in-Aid of Doctoral Research Award.

Leandro Martan, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, received the Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) Grad Student Research Grant. Leandro also received the OVPIA Primary Partner Graduate Student Grant to do research at the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

Marcela de Oliveira e Silva Lemos, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, received the Spanish and Portuguese Travel Grant.

Matt Peisen, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the Spanish and Portuguese Travel Grant.

Estefany Sosa, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received the CLACS Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship.

Margo Stutz, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Fellowship (Research). Margo also received the Timothy J. Rogers Summer Dissertation Fellowship.

Taís Xavier Carvalho, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, received the Colins LLC Teaching Award.

Ph.D. conferred:

Beth Boyd

Andreina Colina-Marin

María Fernanda Escalante

Travis Evans-Sago   

Daniel Jung

Gabriela Kolman

Marcela de Oliveira e Silva Lemos

M.A. conferred:

Caroline Amodeo Williams

Nadia Barreiro                     

Anthony Brandy      

Jeremy Dickinson

Recent Graduates

Beth Boyd, Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures, has accepted a position as Instructor of Spanish and Portuguese at Miami University (OH).

Andreina Colina-Marin, Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics, has been selected as an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow.

Mackenzie Coulter-Kern, Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics, is the new director of Diversity Initiatives in Wabash County, Indiana.

Jeremy Dickinson, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, has accepted a position as a Data Science Analyst at Quantum Workplace (NYC).

Marcela de Oliveira e Silva Lemos, Ph.D. in Portuguese, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Utah State University.