Congratulations to French majors Nikki Nemsick, Hannah Ellis, and Luke Tinel for having received an invitation to join the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa!
Meloddye Carpio Ríos has won the second prize for graduate essays in the Gender Perspective Research Essay Competition for her essay “De afectos, procesos y excesos: reflexiones sobre la masculinidad y los héroes…
Anna Torres Mallma, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies, has received a Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award. These awards “honor students who have made an outstanding contribution to the…
Lisa James, PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, has received the Provost’s Graduate Internship Award for Summer 2021. Lisa will be working with LAS’s Office of Recruitment and Engagement under the direction of Justin…
The Department of French and Francophone Studies is delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Marie-Odile Sweetser Prize for excellence in French Studies: Charlotte Demski. The Sweetser Prize is awarded annually to…
Meloddye Carpio Ríos, PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, has been awarded two major awards by the UIC Graduate College. The Access to Excellence Fellowship offers support to increase the number of students from…
Young Richard Kim, associate professor and head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies and associate professor of History, recently published an op-ed piece with Newsweek. In it he writes about multilingualism in American culture…
Zachary Fitzpatrick, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, received a Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2021-22 academic year to complete his dissertation entitled Reeling in Asian German Representation: 110 Years of Asian German…
Young Richard Kim, associate professor and Head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, joined WBEZ’s “Reset” for a discussion about the origin of the model minority myth and how it impacted Asian Americans growing…
Elizabeth Dolly Weber and Jessica Thornton-Hoselton of the Department of French and Francophone Studies were recently named awardees of the Open Textbook Faculty Incentive Program. This program encourages faculty to use and develop…
