Vanessa Lent, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, is a graduate student in Spanish literature and graduate instructor of record in the 100-200 level of Spanish. A 2022 summa cum laude UA
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Dr. Yuliya Minets wins the 2023 SMA First Book Award
Join us in congratulating Dr. Yulia Minets! The Southeastern Medieval Association has awarded Dr. Minets the organization’s 2023 award for Best First Book for The Slow Fall of Babel: Languages
Dr. Bryan Koronkiewicz receives Faculty Fulbright Award
Congratulations to our own Dr. Bryan Koronkiewicz on receiving a Fulbright award this year! He joins five other UA faculty members in this honor. Full statement from UA News Center:
Dr. Jessica Goethals wins Newberry Fellowship
Dr. Jessica Goethals has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities long-term fellowship from the Newberry Library in Chicago. During her nine-month stay (September-May) at the Newberry, which houses
Abigail Obafemi receives scholarship for professional development program at University of Leipzig
Congratulations to German graduate student Abigail Obafemi for a scholarship for the professional development program Mit Deutsch in die Zukunft, held June 26—July 16, 2022 at the Herder-Institut at the University of Leipzig.
Katherine Lightfoot receives competitive Building Professional Connections stipend
Congratulations to graduate student Katherine Lightfoot for receiving a nationally competitive Building Professional Connections professional development stipend to attend the AATG Convention held in conjunction with ACTFL 2022, November 18-20
UA Student Chosen as Rhodes Scholar
The Department of Modern Languages and Classics and the German Department are proud of Nick Hayes. He is one of 32 students chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. UA Student Chosen
Dr. Cheryl Toman awarded 2021 “Gender Chair”
Dr. Cheryl Tomas was awarded the 2021 “Gender Chair” by The Gender Institute of France’s CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Home | Institut du Genre (institut-du-genre.fr)
Elizabeth Naranjo Hayes awarded SREB-DSP Dissertation Year Award
Elizabeth Naranjo Hayes was awarded a prestigious Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)-Doctoral Scholars Program (DSP) Dissertation Year Award for 2021-2022. As a State Doctoral Scholars Fellow, she will be awarded