Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating our Fall 2025 Honored Instructors. Every semester, students living in University Housing have the opportunity to recognize instructors who have made a positive impact on …
Karen Francis
Fall 2025
Congratulations to Undergraduate Hailey Dickinson – Voyager Scholarship for Public Service
Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating junior undergraduate Spanish and Political Science major Hailey Dickinson on her Voyager Scholarship for Public Service. Hailey is one of one hundred students (and only …
Kiley Specht Receives ACTFL 2025 Research Priorities Initiative Award
Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating Kiley Specht, graduate student in Spanish Applied Linguistics, on her American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2025 Research Priorities Initiative Award! She …
Eve Pujol Selected for 2025–26 Morgridge Fellows Community-Engaged Scholarship Program
Congratulations to Eve Pujol for being selected to join the 2025–26 cohort of the Morgridge Fellows Community-Engaged Scholarship (CES) professional development program. The Morgridge Fellows Program is a yearlong campus initiative that supports faculty, staff, …
Congratulations to Katherine Ward – 2025 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Arts!
The Graduate School has selected Katherine Ward’s dissertation as the UW–Madison nominee for the 2025 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Arts. The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), jointly with ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, …
Spring 2025
Professor Paola Hernández Awarded Kellett Mid-Career Award
Congratulations to Mellon-Morgridge Professor Paola Hernández for being awarded the Kellett Mid-Career Award!! With this award the University recognizes Mellon-Morgridge Professor Hernández’s academic success and provides her an opportunity for continued development of her outstanding …
Congratulations to Andrés Correal – Spring 2025 Pedagogical Innovation Winner!
Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating Andrés Correal, winner of the Spring 2025 Pedagogical Innovation Contest! Contestants submitted a detailed proposal involving the incorporation of artificial intelligence into an existing lower-division …
Congratulations to our 2025 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 …