Visiting assistant professor Iris Montero has just been awarded honorable mention, from the Latin American Studies Association Colonial Section, for the "2021 Best Article in Colonial Latin American Studies by a Junior Scholar" for her article "The Disguise of the Hummingbird: On the Natural History of Huitzilopochtli in the Florentine Codex," Ethnohistory 67.3 (2020).

Prof. Laura Bass and her colleague Tanya Tiffany (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) have been awarded an NEH Scholarly Translation Grant for their project, "The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Painter and Nun, Estefanía de la Encarnación". ¡Enhorabuena Laura y Tanya!

The Providence Refugee Dream Center is a post resettlement refugee agency that greatly contributes to the enhancement of the cultural and community development in Rhode Island. During these unprecedented times when everyone is separated by the global pandemic, HS concentrators and DUG leaders, Ahjeetha Shankar and Samuel Orenstein, organized a global social media fundraiser to help this Center. They partnered up with a corporate organization that would match their fundraised amount by 200%. Consequently, they fundraised a grand total of $1,365 (surpassing the initial goal of $500.00)! Congratulations to Sam and Ahjeetha for such a fantastic initiative!

Prof. Michelle Clayton was selected for 2020 for the Graduate School Faculty Awards for Advising and Mentoring. ¡Felicitaciones Michelle!

The Department of Hispanic Studies congratulates Ethel Barja on the launch of her new book Travesía invertebrada. Read more about her book, the book launch and a selection of her poems.

We're delighted to share the news that our former student Ezio Neyra, PhD 2013, has just been appointed director of the National Library in Lima.

The Department of Hispanic Studies is delighted to announce that Luis Miguel Estrada Orozco has just been admitted into Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA).

Berta García Faet, a 4th year doctoral candidate in the Department of Hispanic Studies, is the 2018 recipient of El Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven Miguel Hernández, one of Spain's most prestigious literary prizes, for her book Los salmos fosforitos. Given by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the prize comes with an award of 20,000 euros.

This past February, the JCB and Hispanic Studies community was saddened to hear of the passing of José "Pepe" Amor y Vázquez.

Prof. Felipe Martínez-Pinzón was awarded the The Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship.