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Our Commitment to Excellence

Honored Faculty and Staff

Faculty Teaching and Research

 

Rajiv Rao
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship – 2025
Fulbright Specialist Award – 2024
Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching – 2013

Bárbara Rodríguez-Guridi
Chancellor’s Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching – 2024

Grant Armstrong
H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship – 2024
Vilas Associate – 2020

Paola Hernández
Mellon-Morgridge Professorship – 2023

Juan Egea
Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award – 2022

Mercedes Alcalá-Galán
H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship – 2022

Rubén Medina
Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award – 2021

Kata Beilin
Fulbright Scholar Award – 2022
Carson Fellowship – 2017
Interdisciplinary Research Award – 2015
IRH Resident Fellowship – 2012

Guillermina De Ferrari
Guggenheim Fellowship – 2020
Halls-Bascom Professorship – 2020

Steven Hutchinson
Sigma Delta Pi’s Order of Don Quijote – 2016

Catherine Stafford
Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching – 2016

Alicia Cerezo
Class of 1955 Teaching Excellence – 2015

Pablo Ancos
William H. Kiekhofer Distinguished Teaching – 2011

Faculty and instructors in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese are recognized regularly by students, student organizations, and societies (see, for example, University Housing’s Honored Instructors)

Undergraduate Research

 

Wisconsin/Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research

  • Grant Armstrong (1 award)
  • Ksenija Bilbija (15 awards)
  • Guillermina de Ferrari (4 awards)
  • Rubén Medina
  • Rajiv Rao
  • Kathryn Sánchez (4 awards)
  • Ellen Sapega

Undergraduate Research Scholar Mentoring

  • Ksenija Bilbija
  • Rajiv Rao

Advising

 

Karen Francis

Outstanding Achievement in Undergraduate Advising – 2016

College of Letters and Science Advising Award – 2013

Center for the First-Year Experience
Outstanding Work with First-Year Students – 2012

Ellen Sapega

College of Letters and Science Advising Award – 2002