On Monday, May 24, 20201, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese presented graduate student Yangyou Fang with the 2021 Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones Prize in recognition for her contributions and dedication to undergraduate teaching.
The University Center for Human Values named SPO concentrator Daniela Alvarez ’21 as a recipient of a 2021 Senior Thesis Prize in recognition of her thesis titled “La Gran Cárcel: Two Militarized Borders, Two Failed Asylum Systems and a Mexico-Wide Prison.”
This prize awards up to three prize(s) to senior theses that best apply ethical reasoning to advance our understanding of human values.
Read more about the prize and prize winners on the University Center for Human Values webpage.
The Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) named Brandon Dunlevy ’21 as a recipient of the 2021 Stanley J. Stein Senior Thesis Prize in Latin American Studies. The Stanley J. Stein prize is awarded each year to the student who writes the best senior thesis on a Latin American topic.
On Monday, May 24, 2021, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese hosted a virtual Class Day event in celebration of the Class of 2021.
View the full list of graduates and thesis titles.
Friends, family, faculty, and staff were welcomed with opening remarks by Javier Guerrero, director of undergraduate studies, followed by introductions by the graduating senior concentrators.
SPO concentrators Jimin Kang ’21, Hannah Rose Smalley ’21, and Lydia Spencer ’21 were elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded in 1776 and the oldest of all national honorary scholastic societies, has a chapter at Princeton. Election to this chapter is based on scholastic standing and is open to candidates for the A.B. and B.S.E. degrees in their senior year. The chapter generally includes in its membership the highest-ranking tenth of each graduating class.
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Spanish and Portuguese concentrator Daniela Alvarez ’21 was named the recipient of the Priscilla Glickman ’92 Memorial Prize. The prize was presented during the University’s virtual Class Day ceremony which was held on Saturday, May 15.
The Priscilla Glickman ’92 Memorial Prize is given to a Princeton senior who has demonstrated independence and imagination in the area of community service, seeks knowledge and purposeful adventure in unfamiliar cultures and maintains strong academic work.
On May 5, Miguel Dominguez successfully defended his dissertation titled "Esquirlas de la vanguardia: Juan García Ponce y la literatura como supervivencia en el México del desarrollismo", advised by Rubén Gallo.
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On May 4, Sowmya Ramanathan successfully defended her dissertation titled "Textures of the Sensible: Reading Affect in Diamela Eltit", advised by Gabriela Nouzeilles.
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Spanish and Portuguese concentrator Daniel Benitez, and Spanish and Portuguese certificate students Jonathan Ort and Phoebe Park have recently been awarded a 2021 Spirit of Princeton Award in recognition of their positive contributions to campus life.
Award winners 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.
Berta del Río Alcalá
Dissident Theatricalities: Civil Practices and Democratic Imaginaries (Spain, 1968-1992)
Marina Miguel Bedran
A Turn to Amazonia: Experimental Art, Indigeneity, and the Rise of Political Ecology in Brazil
J. Miguel Dominguez
Esquirlas de la vanguardia: Juan García Ponce y la literatura como supervivencia en el México del desarrollismo
Sowmya Ramanathan
Textures of the Sensible: Reading Affect in Diamela Eltit
