Political Science doctoral candidate Kennia Coronado has won an Early Excellence Award for her fine work with POLI SCI/CHICLA 231, “Politics in Multi-Cultural Societies,” taught by CLS affiliate professor Benjamin Márquez. The Early Excellence Award …
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Rubén Medina receives Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award
Folks in the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program were delighted to learn that one of our own, Prof. Rubén Medina (Spanish & Portuguese/CLS), has received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Medina is one of …
Paola Hernández to Publish “Staging Lives in Latin American Theater”
In April, 2021, Northwestern University Press will release CLS affiliate professor Paola Hernández’s book Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives, which examines twenty-first-century documentary theater in Latin America, focusing on important plays …
Katherine Vieira’s “Writing for Love and Money” Wins Book Prize
CLS Affilate faculty member Catherine Vieira’s recent book, Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families (Oxford UP 2019), won the 2020 Edward B. Fry Book Award from the Literacy …
CLS Instructors win University Housing’s “Honored Instructor” Awards
CLS Instructors Rubén Medina (below, left) and Kristina Fullerton-Rico (left) are among the Spring 2020 recipients of University Housing’s “Honored Instructor” awards. Each semester, University Housing residents vote to recognize outstanding classroom instructors through the …
CLS Student Carolina Mora-Hurtado Wins Ebling Scholarship
CLS Certificate student Carolina Mora-Hurtado has received the 2020 Paul R. Ebling Pre-Medicine Scholarship, which recognizes academic excellence and service to the community. Carolina will begin medical studies at the UW School of Medicine and …
CLS Faculty Honored for Teaching Excellence
Chican@ & Latin@ Studies affiliate faculty members Kate Vieira and Lori Lopez are among the thirteen faculty members honored by the University with Distinguished Teaching Awards for 2020. Prof. Lopez, an associate professor of Communication …