SPO Concentrator Jordan Salama Awarded Harold Willis Dodds Achievement Prize on Class Day
Friday, Jun 7, 2019
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2019 Valedictory remarks by Kate Reed
Thursday, Jun 6, 2019
To begin, words of gratitude. For friends and faculty, facilities workers and families. Behind each of us today there is an education that transcends books and classrooms, an education about how to be human in this world, and it is my great joy to be able to express my gratitude to the innumerable influences that have shaped me, that have shaped us.
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Congratulations to the Class of 2019
Thursday, Jun 6, 2019Congratulations to our graduating concentrators
Patricia Beltran-Cortez
Melissa De Queredo
Mira Gill
Maria Heredia-Meza
Chitra Kumar
Kathryn Grace Phipps
Christian Ramos
Rene Rodriguez
Jordan Salama
Janelle Spence
Rachel ToddCongratulations to our graduating Ph.D. students
Sophia Nuñez
Thomas MatusiakCongratulations to our Spanish certificate students
Prizes awarded to Undergraduates on Class Day
Wednesday, Jun 5, 2019
Photos from the Class Day reception can be accessed here.
The Department announced the following prizes which were awarded to undergraduates at the Class Day reception held June 3, 2019:
Premio Ángel Rama for excellence by a freshman or sophomore in advanced Spanish courses:
Amy Torres and Hannah Smalley
Prêmio Machado de Assis for excellence in advanced undergraduate Portuguese courses:
Maria Heredia-Meza
Rapping in Spanish
Wednesday, Jun 5, 2019
By Julie Clack
From Barcelona to Buenos Aires and Madrid to Mexico City, Spanish rap music and hip-hop brings people from all different backgrounds together. Like the music itself, the spring course “Rapping in Spanish” did the same for Princeton students.
Congratulations to Thomas Matusiak
Friday, May 10, 2019
Thomas Matusiak has successfully defended his dissertation, “The Visual Guillotine: Latin America and the Cinema of Cruelty .” Following graduation, Thomas will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Leslie Center for the Humanities and Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College.
Department honors three graduate students with the Arcadio Díaz Quiñones teaching award
Wednesday, May 8, 2019By Alberto Bruzos Moro
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese has honored three graduate students with the Arcadio Díaz Quiñones teaching award in recognition of their work as teachers in the academic year 2018-2019.
The awardees are Andy Alfonso, Verónica Carchedi, and Berta Del Río Alcalá.
SPO certificate student, Samuel Vilchez Santiago ’19, named 2019 Spirit of Princeton winner
Tuesday, Apr 30, 2019Eight students have been named winners of the 2019 Spirit of Princeton Award, honoring Princeton University undergraduates for positive contributions to campus life. The award recognizes those who have demonstrated a strong commitment to the undergraduate experience through dedicated efforts in student organizations, athletics, community service, religious life, residential life and the arts.
SPO certificate student Katharine Reed named valedictorian of Princeton’s Class of 2019
Tuesday, Apr 30, 2019
Katherine (Kate) Reed graduated from Severn School in 2015. She was among 32 American recipients selected this year for a Rhodes Scholarship and will pursue an M.Phil. in Development Studies at the University of Oxford after she graduates. She is a member of Rockefeller College, one of Princeton’s six residential colleges.
SPO alum Max Grear ’18 to pursue Ph.D. in Anthropology at Columbia University
Thursday, Apr 18, 2019
Beginning in the fall, SPO alum Max Grear ’18 will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Anthropology at Columbia University, specializing in Sociocultural Anthropology. Grear plans to study media and performance in Cuba, with an emphasis on popular music, race, and sexualities. This stems from initial research that he conducted in Cuba for his senior thesis.
Grear was awarded the Ricardo Piglia Best Senior Thesis Prize on Class Day 2018.
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