On January 27, Diego Baena successfully defended his dissertation “La literatura y sus pueblos: demopoéticas de la España liberal (1834-1854)."
Diego has been appointed as a Postgraduate Research Associate (PGRA) with the department until the fall.
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Students from SPA 342/LAS 342 document daily life and more from fall break 2019 trip to Havana, Cuba
Friday, Jan 31, 2020
During fall break, students enrolled in SPA 342/LAS 342 took a trip led by Professor Rubén Gallo and graduate student assistant Ingrid Brioso Rieumont to Havana, Cuba. While there, students visited numerous cultural and historical sights and attended events such as plays and film screenings. Each student also conducted independent research on a...
Monday, Jan 27, 2020
By Nadia Cervantes Pérez
Friday, Jan 3, 2020
By Julie Clack
To explore issues of social stratification and poverty and their connection to identity formation, students in the “Identity in the Hispanic World” course traveled to Guatemala over fall break to participate in a service-learning program at a nonprofit organization that addresses education, health care and housing in...
Thursday, Nov 7, 2019
Mauricio Acuña’s dissertation titled “Um mestre de capoeira entre gingas e letras” was defended with honors at the University of São Paulo in 2017 and recently received the First Honorable Mention of the Silvio Romero Prize, an annual award established by the National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute of Brazil.
Thursday, Oct 24, 2019
Congratulations to PhD candidate Ingrid Brioso Rieumont, recipient of a 2019 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded to individual doctoral students whose dissertation will make an unusually significant contribution to their discipline.
Friday, Oct 18, 2019
Jorge has successfully defended his dissertation “Poetics of Solidarity: The Emergence of Anarchist Mass Culture (Spain, 1898).”
Jorge plans to move to Spain to work on his book manuscript.
Thursday, Oct 17, 2019
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.
Wednesday, Aug 14, 2019
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.
Tuesday, Jul 2, 2019
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.
