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Willivaldo Delgadillo has been awarded the Premio Guillermo Rousset Banda for his book Fabular Juárez: marcos de guerra, memoria y los foros por venir, published in Ciudad Juárez in 2020 by Brown Buffalo Press and the Instituto para la Ciudad y los Derechos Humanos. The Rousset Banda prize is awarded annually by the Universidad Autónoma de…

Aguilas is on the New Yorker short documentary platform and will screen on PBS’s Oscar and Emmy-award-winning documentary series POV on December 6. Aguilas is eligible for the Oscar nomination list. Aguilas has been admitted into numerous festivals and has won 8 awards so far (see list below): 1.Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2021, Missoula, MN, February…

Assistant Adjunct Professor and Faculty Fellow Juliana Espinal was recently awarded the prize for best doctoral thesis in her field of specialization for the period 2019-2021 by the Asociación de Colombianistas. Dr. Espinal defended her dissertation, titled “De forma oblicua: representaciones de la violencia paramilitar en la Colombia del siglo XXI,” at UCLA in Spring 2021. The prize…

On October 18, 2021, Professor Fuchs accepted the Ñ Award from the hands of King Felipe VI of Spain at the annual meeting of the Instituto Cervantes board of trustees in Madrid. The Ñ Award was created to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the foundation of the Instituto Cervantes, an entity created in 1991 to…

Águilas/Eagles (Kristy Guevara-Flanagan & Maite Zubiaurre, 2021) is the winner of the 2021 Nashville Film Festival Award for Best Short Doc! Águilas has won numerous awards (https://www.aguilasdocumentary.com/), is featured on the New Yorker, and will air on November 22nd as part of the Oscar and Emmy-awarded PBS series, POV. You can watch Águilas HERE  

Congratulations to our graduate student, Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura, on being awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Linguistics Program (Award #: BCS-2116801). The NSF Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in…

We congratulate Karime Parodi on publishing her article, From Seduction to Sexual Assault: Consent and Heterosexual Interaction in the Libro de buen amor in La Corónica, the leading journal of Hispanic medieval studies in the US! Karime’s article on the Libro de buen amor began as a paper for Professor John Dagenais‘s seminar, Spanish 262A: Two…

Congratulations to our recent graduate, Laura Muñoz, on being awarded the Emerging Voices Fellowship for 2021 by The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has proudly named 48 new Emerging Voices Fellows for 2021. With the continued uncertainty enveloping academe in the wake of the COVID-19 economic downturn,…