By Rafael SM Paniagua
Ten students from Prof. Rafael SM Paniagua’s course on Museums, Archives, and Audiences in Modern Spain (SPA382/HUM384/ART382) visited the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. This visit complemented a class discussion about folk museums and the material heritage of pre-automated technology.
Yasmina has successfully defended her dissertation “El Estrecho de Gibraltar y los Imaginarios del Cannabis: Culturas y Contraculturas Rifeño-Hispano-Magrebies (1859-1995).”
Yasmina will be a Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane University's Spanish and Portuguese Department.
Students enrolled in Princeton in Spain spent a day exploring Madrid on Wednesday, June 19th. They began the day by meeting Professor Goretti González at the Plaza de Santa Ana where the Teatro Español, the oldest theater in Madrid, is located.
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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 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 Todd
Congratulations to our graduating Ph.D. students
Sophia Nuñez
Thomas Matusiak
Congratulations to our Spanish certificate students
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
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.
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.
By 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.
