04/12/2021 - Professor Pilar Martínez-Quiroga has been recognized with the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff. Only one annual award is...
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04/12/2021 - PhD student Caio Albernaz Siqueira has been awarded a Global South Languages Fellowship to study Quechua for AY 2021-22. The goal of this fellowship program is to...
04/08/2021 - Our very recent alumna Dr. Liz Moreno-Chuquen (Ph.D. 2019) has been awarded a very competitive 2021 NEH Summer Stipend for her project, “Visual Narratives of...
04/04/2021 - Join us in congratulating Daniel Pérez-Astros who has been awarded a competitive Lemann Graduate Fellowship for AY 2021-22 for his project "Post-dictatorship, Trauma, and Testimony in Brazil and...
03/26/2021 - Join us in congratulating Ander Beristain and Eider Etxebarria who have been awarded 2021-2022 SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships...
03/25/2021 - Prof. Salvatore Callesano has been awarded the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award. The faculty selected for this award are nominated by the...
02/26/2021 - Ander Beristain Murillo and Jone Vicente Urrutia have received the highly prestigious Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award...
02/25/2021 - Our Department Head, Professor Mariselle Meléndez, has been named the first LAS Dean’s Fellow for Faculty Development. The position, which will start on January 2022...
02/09/2021 - Our PhD student Megan Gargiulo has received the highly competitive Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Fellowship for her project "Gender, and Recogimiento: Discursive...
02/09/2021 - Prof. Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded the very competitive Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Fellowship for her outstanding book project, Subjunctive...
12/18/2020 - Prof. Eduardo Ledesma has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He was named along with Bobby Smith II, Professor of African American studies. Ledesma’s project “Visually...
12/12/2020 - While we hope next year's party will be in person again, Profs. Meléndez and Bowles emceed a plethora of fun and festive activities, games and Maize gift card give aways. Taboo, Pictionary and...
12/09/2020 - The LAS Awards Committee selected our own Melanie Waters for the prestigious and highly competitive LAS Academic Professional Award. This award honors selected...
12/01/2020 - We are proud of our alumna Dr. Robin Ragan who has been nationally recognized with ACTFL's Global...
10/20/2020 - A stellar Spanish major, Sophie Isolde Luijten, receives a prestigious Illinois International Undergraduate Achievement Award. This award recognizes an Illinois...
