Professor Suhr received the 2022 UCLA URW Faculty Mentor Award for her mentorship for undergraduate students involved in community-engaged research and sociolinguistic justice projects. The UCLA Faculty Mentor Award honors…
Read MoreAssistant Professor Javier Patiño Loira has been awarded two grants for the coming year in support of his research. The first is a one-month virtual fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare…
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Adelmar Ramirez, a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, recently won the first Premio Transoceánico de Poesía, a prize created as an homage to Salvadoran poet Claudia…
Read MoreAssistant Adjunct Professor and Faculty Fellow Juliana Espinal was recently awarded the prize for best doctoral thesis in her field of specialization for the period 2019-2021 by the Asociación de Colombianistas. Dr….
Read MoreÁguilas/Eagles (Kristy Guevara-Flanagan & Maite Zubiaurre, 2021) is the winner of the 2021 Nashville Film Festival Award for Best Short Doc! Águilas has won numerous awards (https://www.aguilasdocumentary.com/), is featured on…
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Congratulations to our graduate student, Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura, on being awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Linguistics Program (Award #: BCS-2116801). The NSF Linguistics…
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Congratulations to our recent graduate, Laura Muñoz, on being awarded the Emerging Voices Fellowship for 2021 by The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The American Council of Learned Societies…
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UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department Professor Barbara Fuchs has been selected as the first winner of the “Ñ” Award, a distinction recently launched by the Instituto Cervantes to mark the…
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Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and community organizer. She has worked civil rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez founded the…
Read MoreThe UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese is happy to share with you that Aguilas, Professor Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, and Maite Zubiaurre’s mini-doc is the winner of the SXSW 2021 Documentary Shorts Jury Award! See…
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