The Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) presented Anne Elizabeth Sidamon-Eristoff '20 with The Stanley Stein Senior Thesis Prize in recognition of her thesis work which she presents on the PLAS Class Day 2020 video.
The Stanley Stein Senior Thesis Prize honors those who focus on a Latin American or Caribbean topic.
View more on the PLAS website.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to award Mauricio Acuña with the Arcadio Díaz Quiñones teaching award for his contributions in teaching during the 2019-2020 academic year.
Karina Aguilar Guerrero '20 has received two of the University’s highest student honors for service to campus and the community. She won this year’s Allen Macy Dulles ’51 Award and Priscilla Glickman ’92 Memorial Prize in recognition of her work to enhance access, mentor underserved students and build community.
Read more on the Princeton University website.
Yasmina Aidi
El estrecho de Gibraltar y los imaginarios del cannabis: culturas y contraculturas rifeño-hispano-magrebíes (1859-1995)
Diego Baena
La literatura y sus pueblos: demopoéticas de la España liberal (1834-1854)
Jorge Gaupp
Poetics of solidarity: The emergence of anarchist mass culture (Spain, 1898)
Professor Rubén Gallo has been named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Gallo is among twelve Princeton faculty who were elected to the Academy and joins 276 scholars, scientists, artists and leaders in the public, nonprofit and private sectors elected this year in recognition of their contributions to their respective fields.
Graduate student Ingrid Brioso Rieumont has received an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Competition.
The Fellowship Program is administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and this year received over six hundred applications and awarded 36 fellowships and 111 Honorable Mentions in science, engineering, social sciences and the humanities across the nation.
Professor Arturo Arias, Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Professor at PLAS and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Fall 2019) was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research on contemporary indigenous novels from Guatemala and Mexico.
Read more on the PLAS website.
SPO graduate student Berta del Río Alcala was selected as a recipient of a 2020 Graduate School Teaching Award in recognition of her work as an assistant in instruction. Teaching Awards honor graduate students who have made a significant and exceptional contribution to undergraduate teaching. Berta was nominated by her undergraduate students and members of the faculty in recognition of her dedication and excellence in teaching.
Kang’s essay titled “I’m an international student 7,000 miles away from family. Loneliness is my new reality. “ was recently published on Vox First Person.
Read her essay on the Vox website.
Professor Christina Lee recently published a new book titled The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815: A Reader of Primary Sources. The book was co-edited by Lee and Professor Ricardo Padrón, associate professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia.
This reader provides a selection of documents relevant to the encounters and entanglements that arose in the Spanish Pacific between European, Spanish Americans, and Asians while highlighting the role of natives, mestizos, and women.
