SPO Alum Cara Zampino ’17 Publishes Review of Revolution Sunday by Wendy Guerra
Tuesday, Dec 4, 2018
Announcements
Spanish Certificate Student, Kate Reed, Awarded Rhodes Scholarship
Monday, Nov 19, 2018
Kate Reed ’19, was recently awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Reed is a Spanish certificate student as well as an undergraduate course assistant with the department.
At Oxford, Reed plans to pursue the M.Phil. in Development Studies.
To read more, click here.
Congratulations to Sophia Nuñez
Thursday, Nov 15, 2018
Sophia Nuñez has successfully defended her dissertation “Bodies and Books in the Early Modern Hispanic World.”
Piece by SPO Alum, Mary Hui ’17 , Featured in Princeton Alumni Weekly
Monday, Oct 1, 2018
Mary Hui's piece titled "Voices: A Road Map" was recently featured in Princeton Alumni Weekly. Hui reflects on how the thesis has helped shape thinking in the post-Princeton life.
Click here to read.
Undergraduate Course Assistants Kate Reed (Spanish and Portuguese) and Kathryn Phipps (Spanish) Offer Language Tutoring
Wednesday, Sep 19, 2018The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to announce that we have two Undergraduate Course Assistants: Kate Reed (Spanish and Portuguese) and Kathryn Phipps (Spanish). Language tutoring sessions will begin the week of September 24th.
Brazil LAB Launches New Website
Tuesday, Sep 11, 2018
The new website for Brazil LAB has just been launched: https://brazillab.princeton.edu
Co-directed by Professors João Biehl and Pedro Meira Monteiro, the Brazil LAB (Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies) is a multi-disciplinary research and teaching hub for exploring the country’s history, politics and culture, along with its regional significance and international connections.
Brazil-related events in the fall, graduate and undergraduate courses, as well as the new Global Seminar “Becoming Brazil” can already be seen on the website.
Interview of Brazilian writer Ricardo Lísias Featured in Fórum de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
Wednesday, Sep 5, 2018SPO alum Lara Norgaard’17, graduate student Ingrid Brioso Rieumont, and visiting student Márcia de Castro de Borges interviewed Brazilian writer Ricardo Lísias on his own work, the relation between ethics and aesthetics, the turbulence that hit Brazil in 2016, Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, and the limitation of artistic freedom in Brazil. Lísias’ visit to Princeton in 2016 was part of the seminar “The Subject in Disguise,” taught by professors Pedro Meira Monteiro and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Featured in Fórum de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (v. 10 n. 19, 2018).
SPO Welcomes New Faculty Member Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
Tuesday, Sep 4, 2018
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Ph.D. is a cultural and social anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States, and police officers and Black and Brown communities affected by police violence in the United States. Her research and teaching span the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and Afro-Latinx circulations. Dr.
Scholars, artists from Puerto Rico visit Princeton for research, collaboration
Thursday, Aug 2, 2018
By Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria slammed into the Caribbean, soon after Hurricane Irma. Puerto Rico was one of the hardest-hit islands. Maria destroyed thousands of homes and the island’s power grid, leaving millions without electricity — reportedly the longest blackout in U.S. history. While the recovery continues and the death toll is still being debated, Princeton University is serving as a haven for some Puerto Rican scholars and artists whose work and lives the storms disrupted.
Visiting Scholars and Artists from Puerto Rico (VISAPUR)
Tuesday, Jul 17, 2018The Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) is hosting members of the academic and artistic communities of Puerto Rico as visitors at Princeton University in summer 2018. The program is sponsored by PLAS and the Office of the Provost, with the endorsement of the Princeton Task Force on Puerto Rico.
Read more here.
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