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Professor Paola Hernández has been named a Mellon-Morgridge Professor. This professorship is part of the Constellations humanities program, a collaborative initiative to energize undergraduate interest in the humanities through exceptional humanities classes and co-curricular experiences. Beginning in AY 2023-24 Professor Hernández will teach a large lecture class on Border and Migration Studies in LatinX America. …
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is pleased to share that Felipe Moraga is the recipient of one of this year’s campus-wide Innovation in Teaching Awards! This is the second time Felipe has been recognized with such an award. In 2021, he received the L&S Continuity of Instruction Teaching Award. Felipe excels in creating activities …
Department of Spanish & Portuguese PhD candidate Katherine Ward has received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship to support her dissertation titled, Intercultural Bilingual Educators’ Perceptions of Non-Standardized Spanish in Ecuador: A Case Study in Combatting Linguistic Discrimination in Schools. Katherine will spend six months in Ecuador working collaboratively with Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers …
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is proud to announce that the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing has just published a bibliography on sources on Book History in South America prepared by one of our PhD students, Gloria J. Morales Osorio, alongside a former graduate student in the department, Gabriel Antúnez …
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese would like to congratulate undergraduate Biomedical Engineering and Spanish major Caitriona Treacy. Caitriona is a recipient of the UW Global Gateway Fellowship for Spring 2023. Through the UW Global Gateway Initiative, students participate in pre- and post-program engagements and onsite activities to integrate their time abroad with academics and …