Congratulations to CLS Affiliate Faculty member Paola Hernández, who was recently honored with a Kellett Mid-Career Award by the University. Prof. Hernández is a Mellon-Morgridge professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, core faculty of Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, and affiliate faculty with the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies program. An award-winning scholar and teacher, Prof. Hernández studies human rights, documentary theatre, citizenship, US-Mexico migration, and border studies, as well as the intersection of performance and political activism in and of Latinx America. Her first book, l Teatro de Argentina y Chile: Globalización, resistencia y desencanto (2009)—for which she received the prestigious “Theatre of the World: First Prize” from the University of Buenos Aires. She has also edited three influential books: Biodrama/Proyecto Archivos: Seis documentales escénicos (2018), Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre (2022), and Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First-Century Theatre: Global Perspectives (2013). Her most recent book, Staging Lives in Latin American Theatre: Bodies, Objects, Archives (2021), has received national and international acclaim. Currently, she is the Editor of Latin American Theatre Review. Through her service and through her work as the instructor of two popular classes on the cultural dimensions of borders and migration in the Americas, Prof. Hernández has made valuable contributions to the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies Program. CLS faculty and staff are delighted to see her honored with this award. Named for the late William R. Kellett, a former president of the WARF board of trustees and president of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the Kellett award provides support and encouragement to faculty who have made key research contributions in their fields.