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
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