Associate Professor Rosa Vallejos has been selected to stay at the Collegium de Lyon in France during the Spring/Summer 2019.  The Collegium de Lyon grants 15 high-level scholars the opportunity …

“A History of Mexican History” co-edited by Professor Anna Nogar, Ignacio Sánchez Prado and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra has been awarded Top 75 Titles for Community Col…

The Online Course Advisory Council (OCAC) has recognized and certified Professor Eva Rodriguez Gonzalez on her Spring 2017 SPAN 101 and 102 online TA Master Courses. These courses were reviewed and me…

S&P would like to recognize Alumni Esther Brown, whom graduated in 2004 and is recepient the 2018 LAII Greenleaf Visiting Scholar award.    

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This week, Jennifer Dumont graces our Alumni Spotlight!  Jennifer graduated from UNM, with her PhD in Hispanic Linguistics in 2011, and is currently at Gettysburg College. 

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Associate Professor Dr. Anna Nogar, MA Southwest Studies candidate Julianna Wiggins, and Honors College Associate Professor Myrriah Gómez were accepted to attend Voces Oral History Research Summe…

Dual MA Spanish and Portuguese candidate, Andre Nascimento and PhD candidate in Hispanic Literature Mariana Sierra Aponte have each been awarded a LAII Field Research Grant.  The grant gives grad…

Karol Ibarra Zetter, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics has received the College of Arts & Sciences Bilinski Foundation Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year.  This fellowship provides …

Emeritus Professor, Daniel Villa illuminates our Alumni Spotlight this week.  Prof. Villa, expresses his journey through the variety of Spanish he has encountered in New Mexico and his two new pr…

Associate Professor Dr. Rosa Vallejos Yopán, has received the prestigious Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) Fellowship.  DEL partnerships with National Science Foundation and National E…

Welcome back to the new school year! We would like to begin our Alumni Spotlight with an inspiring alum: Adrienne Gonzales. Dr. Gonzales graduated from UNM with a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics in 2012 a…

MA candidate in Southwest Studies, Debra Nieto, has been selected to participate in the 2018-2019 Transformar Fellowship Program.  This program enables students to focus on social entrepreneurshi…

MA candidate in Hispanic LInguistics Rosa Elena Prada Vivas and MA candidate in Southwest Studies Juliana Wiggins, have been chosen to be 2018-2019 Fellows in the Summa Academia program, which is a jo…

On Thursday, November 8, UNM Professors Damián Vergara Wilson and Naomi Shin will host a reception to celebrate bilingualism and New Mexican Spanish. The reception will bring together UNM al…

Our distinguished alumni this week is Vanessa de Veritch Woodside.  Vanessa is currently a tenured faculty member at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and is working on developing servic…

This week we are proud to highlight an inspirational alum, Susana Rivera-Mills.  Dr. Rivera-Mills graduated UNM in 1998 with a PhD in Romance Languages.  She received some exciting news over…

This week, Earl Brown illuminants our Alumni Spotlight.  Dr. Brown graduated in 2008 with a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics.  Currently, he is an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University …

Alessandra Luiselli graces our last Alumni Spotlight of the semester! Dr. Luiselli graduated from UNM with her PhD in Philosophy and Romance in 1990.  Currently, she is a Professor at Texas A&M i…