Julian shares his thoughts with SPO about his plans for the future.
The Center for Digital Humanities awards the Dissertation Prize every year to recognize outstanding doctoral work by Princeton PhD alumni. A former SPO student was among the winners this year.
Lane Kauffmann, SPO alumnus, honors the memory of his late parents by offering a fellowship to SPO concentrators in their name.
“Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena” traces SPO Class of 2019 graduate Jordan Salama’s voyage along Colombia’s most important river and exemplifies the opportunities students have to pursue their passions at Princeton. Trips to Cuba, Spain and Portugal as part of his Princeton courses fueled Salama’s penchant for storytelling.
SPO graduate alum Mauricio Acuña has been appointed an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College. Prior to his tenure-track appointment, he will hold a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College beginning this fall.
Mauricio completed his dissertation titled “Poéticas e…
SPO graduate alum Ingrid Brioso Rieumont has been appointed an Assistant Professor of Cuban and Caribbean studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College. Prior to her tenure-track appointment, she will hold a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College beginning this fall.
Ingrid completed…
Jimin Kang '21 just published a Spanish-language piece called "Mi madre y yo" in the prestigious Casapaís literary journal. It is about her experience reading and reflecting on Don Quixote with her mother.
About the inspiration for the piece, Kang said, "I remember sitting in my college library [during…
By Danielle Ranucci, SPO Social Media Assistant
On March 16, SPO alumni Brandon Flora Dunlevy, Jimin Kang, and Cecilia Hsu joined the SPA 215: A Spanish Writing Workshop seminar for a conversation about their experience writing senior theses featuring translation.
“Thinking about the types of theses that SPO majors write, we…
For her senior thesis, Anne Elizabeth Sidamon-Eristoff ’20 designed a collaborative project between the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute to study the impact of detention at the United States–Mexico border, parent-child separation on children’s mental health, and to determine whether pre-immigration…
SPO alum Jordan Salama ’19 was featured in a Q&A published by The Daily Princetonian. Salama reflects on his book "Every Day the River Changes" and the process behind his writing.
The full article is available on The Daily Princetonian…