The Department of Romance Languages would like to congratulate Spanish and Geography major Sarah Mizrah on winning the prestigious Harry S. Truman scholarship!

Dr. Amélia Hutchinson's Fernão Lopes project has been awarded a translation grant from the Luso-American Foundation to continue its work translating medieval Portuguese author Fernão Lopes' chronicles.

Congratulations to Dr. Betina Kaplan, who has been awarded one of two university-wide Service Learning Excellence Awards for her work engaging Spanish students with service projects in Buenos Aires and as well as with the Hispanic population of Athens.

The Department of Romance Languages would like to congratulate Peter Gachanja on defended succesfully his dissertation on “Ousmane Sembene: The Aestheticization of Memory and History.”

Join us in congratulating Cris Lira, a PhD student concentrating on Brazilian literature, for her succesful application for a Graduate School Dean's Award to help fund her research on the convergence of women's writing with militant political activity during dictatorships in Latin America.…