Marina Bedran successfully defended her dissertation titled "A Turn to Amazonia: Experimental Art, Indigeneity, and the Rise of Political Ecology in Brazil."
Marina has accepted a tenure-track position at Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese welcomes new Spanish lecturer Iris Hauser. Hauser is originally from Chiapas, Mexico and studied Applied linguistics at the Universidad de las Americas in (Puebla) Mexico and at Georgia State University. Her research focused on students' cultural identity and second language competency inside academic communities of practice.
First-year students are asked to please complete and submit this Google form to indicate their language interests and what they are interested in learning more about from the department.
Students should refer to the Language Learning webpage for details and contact information about the language requirement, placement test, and proficiency evaluations.
SPO concentrator Jimin Kang ’21 has been remotely interning for Narratively, a New York City-based multimedia company, since late May. She shares some of the components of her work as an editorial intern and highlights from her experience.
Read the full article on the Princeton University website.
Mauricio Acuña's project titled "A Communal Poemap of Afro-Diasporic Aesthetics" was recently selected as part of the Rapid Response Humanities Summer 2020 Projects of the Princeton University Humanities Council.
Graduate students Charlie Hankin and Alejandro Martínez have been awarded a grant to participate in the Rapid Response Humanities Summer 2020 Projects of the Princeton University Humanities Council. Their project, "Latin American COVID Responses: An Archive," will involve several video interviews with activists, intellectuals, and artists in order to create a real-time digital archive to document responses to the coronavirus crisis in Latin America.
Jimin Kang’s ’21 personal essay sheds light on how the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has affected her life as an international student.
Read the full article on the HuffPost website.
For his senior thesis, Peter Schmidt ’20 wrote a novel titled A Mountain There which gives a voice to Bolivia’s Cerro Rico or “rich mountain” known for being the largest silver mine and its nearly 500 years of violent history. Schmidt spent a year in Bolivia through Princeton’s Novogratz Bridge Year Program where he first witnessed the mining of Cerro Rico and years later, it became his inspiration for his senior thesis.
Cecilia Hsu ’20 was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Galicia, Spain.
Hsu was drawn to Galicia following a tour that she took with the Princeton Glee Club two years ago.
“We passed by Santiago de Compostela for a couple days, and I was mesmerized by the tall stone structures; it was like walking through history. The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela has only grown in importance to me, since I wrote my thesis on a competing medieval Castilian pilgrimage destination,” Hsu says.
SPO concentrators Hadley Wilhoite ’20 and Alice Wistar ’20 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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