Daria Smirnova awarded summer dissertation grant from ASEEES! We are thrilled to report that CPLT PhD student Daria Smirnova has been awarded a summer dissertation grant from ASEEES, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Jiang Liu selected as NSF Fellow funded institute Prof. Jiang Liu in LLC is recently selected from a highly competitive applicant pool of early- and mid-career scholars to participate in the U of SC-National Science Foundation Institute in Measurement MEthodology in Rural Stem Education (IMMERSE).
Lara Lomicka Anderson awarded Outstanding Faculty Partner Recognizes a member of the UofSC faculty who has demonstrated significant support for the division, the division's programs and services, and the overall quality of campus life by aiding in student access, facilitating student progress and persistence, and advancing learning.
Ashley Williard has received a 2023 NEH Summer Stipend "The NEH Summer Stipend will allow me to devote time to writing and conduct significant archival research in France during summer 2023. In the Archives Nationales d'Outre Mer, the primary holding place of French colonial documents, I will consult military files, official correspondence, and notary records. In archives in Nantes, the principal French port of the slave trade, I will examine links between the Caribbean and France."
Agnes Mueller awarded Educational Foundation Research Award! Agnes Mueller has just been named the 2022 winner of the UofSC Educational Foundation Research Award in Humanities and Social Sciences!
Professor Jansen awarded breakthrough award! Spanish and comparative literature professor Rebecca Janzen has checked all the North America boxes: She is from Canada, works in the U.S. and her field of study is Mexican literature and culture.
Portuguese students win awards Aidan Thomason and Carlos Sanchez were awarded scholarships to go to Brazil. Aidan received a Fulbright Award and Carlos received a Boren Scholarship. Both students exemplify the value of hard work, rigorous study, and commitment to the Portuguese program.
UofSC Spanish Program fosters ties to Columbia Latinx Arts UofSC Spanish Professors recognized for their outreach to Columbia Latinx Arts
David Beek (CPLT Phd Program) gets Fulbright Award for research in Brazil David Beek, CPLT Ph.D., has received a Fullbright Award to do research in Brazil next Spring of 2020.
Congratulations to Olivia Garrett! Olivia Garrett (MA candidate, Comparative Literature) has been awarded the Captain William Edward McGinn, Squad 18, FDNY Scholarship ($6,000) for a graduate student.
Marc Démont was selected as one of the 2016-2017 Breakthrough Graduate Scholars The thirteen recipients selected this year for this award represent USC's most promising graduate students, and demonstrate phenomenal commitment to research and scholarly activity.
Congratulations to Spanish Ph.D. student Benjamin Garcia He has been awarded a LLC Dissertation Award that provides a course release next academic year 2017-2018.This is a recognition of Benjamin's academic accomplishment and will certainly produce a significant progress on the writing of his dissertation "Estrategias feministas y el avance de la mujer en el siglo XIX: prensa y libre-pensamiento".
Zhuo Feng receives SPARC Grant Zhuo Feng receives SPARC Graduate Research Grant Congratulations to Comparative Literature Ph.D. student Zhuo Feng for receiving a SPARC grant for her proposal: Digesting Gender: The Pleasure of Eating in Late Qing and Republican Chinese Literature. She will receive $5,000.00 for this project.
Ashley Williard's new book has been published "Engendering Islands is an original, compelling, and important exploration of how metro- politan ideas about gender influenced emerging notions of race in the little-studied seven- teenth-century French Caribbean. Ashley Williard's fine scholarship and keen insights make this book valuable for scholars in a wide variety of fields."--Micah True, author of Masters and Students: Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France.
Jahleel Johnson awarded Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Fellowship German and Political Science major Jahleel Johnson was awarded Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Fellowship for 2022-23. The program consists of two months intensive language training at a German Fachhochschule or Berufsschule, one smester of classes at a German university, a three to five month internship with a German organization or company in one's field.
Spanish for Healthcare Professionals Experienced instructor Carla Swygert teaches Honors SPAN 360: Spanish for Healthcare Professionals.
Lauren Finner has successfully defended her M.A. Thesis "The Pursuit of Good Food: the Alimentary Chronotope in Madame Bovary."
