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New co-edited volume by Young Kim

Young Kim, Associate Professory and Head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, recently published a co-edited volume, a Festschrift for Raymond Van Dam. Leadership and Community in Late Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Raymond…

Oscar Campo Becerra wins prize for novel

Oscar Campo Becerra, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, has won the first ever Anne Bonny Prize for Narrative for his work Días hábiles. As a reward for winning this new international literary…

David Abugaber awarded William Orr Dingwall Foundation Fellowship

David Abugaber (PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics) has been awarded the highly selective William Orr Dingwall Foundation‘s Dissertation Fellowship in the Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Foundations of Language for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Young Kim selected for Public Voices Fellowship

Young Kim, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, has been selected for the University of Illinois’ 2020-2021 cohort of the Public Voices Fellowship. This program aims to…

Morgan-Short interviewed for The Pulse podcast

Kara Morgan-Short, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Psychology, was interviewed for The Pulse podcast for a story about learning new languages through apps. Read a summary of the segment and listen online.

Sara Hall elected Vice President and President-Elect of GSA

Sara Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and director of the Moving Image Arts program, has been elected Vice President (2021-2022) and President-Elect (2023-2024) of the German Studies Association (GSA). The German Studies…

Liliana Sánchez receives NSF grant

Liliana Sánchez, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and director of the Bilingualism and Language Contact Lab, and her co-investigator, Elena Koulidobrova, from Central Connecticut State University, have received an National Science Foundation grant for…