Month: May 2022

Fulbright Recipient Brandon Goodale Gives Research Interview

On May 8, 2022, one of our graduate students, Brandon Goodale, who is currently on a Fulbright in Uruguay, was interviewed about his dissertation research/fieldwork by Cacho Mariño and Javier de Gregorio of Plácido Domingo 99.1 FM El Lugar, radio de San José, Uruguay. You can find the full interview here.

Congratulations to our 2022 Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund Recipients

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is delighted to announce this year’s Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund recipients. Marsha Gray Ehrlich was a former graduate student in our Department, and an inspirational teacher during her long professional career. She received a Master of Arts, with a major in Spanish, on August 17, 1968. She carried …

Professor Mercedes Alcalá-Galán Receives H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship

Mercedes Alcalá Galán, Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture and President of the Cervantes Society of America, has received an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. With this fellowship, the University recognizes her academic success and provides an opportunity for continued development of her outstanding research program. Her most recent book explores the sexual and reproductive bodies …

Professor Kata Beilin Awarded Fulbright Scholar Award

Congratulations are in order for Professor Kata Beilin, who has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research in Mexico during the 2022-23 Academic Year. Professor Beilin will use this prestigious award to complete a book project titled With the Bees and Maize: How the Mayas of Yucatán Take their World Back. The book …