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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The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese is happy to share with you that Aguilas, Professor Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Maite Zubiaurre’s mini-doc won the Oscar-qualifying Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Mini-Doc Award…
Read More“Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste” by Maite Zubiaurre is the winner of the 2020 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize. Awarded by the Vanderbilt University Press, the book has been recognized…
Read More Congratulations to our very own Professor, Javier Patiño Loira, on being selected for the 2020 ACLS Fellowship Program! Read the article HERE.
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Since before the current cultural moment that gives currency to diverse points of view, acclaimed novelist, playwright and essayist John Rechy has been centering on themes that defend gay, Mexican…
Read MoreThe Department of Spanish and Portuguese is proud to announce that Professor Juliet Falce-Robinson has been selected by the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching to receive one of three Distinguished…
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