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Nathaniel Cross is graduating with honors with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Political Science. Nathaniel is one of only seven students, out of more than 8,000 who are graduating this week, to be recognized on stage at Wildcat Stadium during the…

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona is proud to be hosting this years Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. The organizing committee includes some of our esteemed Spanish Linguistics professors: Dr. Ana M. Carvalho, Dr.…

University Distinguished Professor Melissa Fitch has received a $137,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to pursue a project that she is passionate about, "The Road is Made Upon Walking," one that was in large part related to,…

The University of Arizona has been awarded a four-year federal grant to establish a Portuguese Flagship Program, with new resources available to advance students’ language skills and career opportunities, including a capstone year in Brazil.

Professor Ana Carvalho has been awarded the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Mentoring Award by the Graduate College. This is an important award that recognizes her dedication to graduate teaching and mentoring. 

Finally, please join me in congratulating Professor Miquel Simonet; he has been awarded the Chatfield Outstanding Tenured Researcher Award!

We are pleased to share that our alumna Jessie Bustamente is the COH nominee for the Arizona Alumni Association’s Young Professional Achievement Award. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and a…

Santa Arias, Professor and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is one of 20 faculty and staff members chosen for the 2023-24 Academic Leadership Institute.   In its 14th year, the nine-month program is designed to…

 Prof. Ana Cornide will be the Project Director of the federally sponsored Project “ADELANTE: Advancing Culturally Responsive Place-Based Educational Opportunities for Latinx Students in the Borderlands”  (2023-2028). With this Title V…

Prof. Ana Carvalho is the co-project director of Bilingual Voices in the U.S.—Mexico Borderlands: Preserving, Expanding & Elaborating Sociolinguistic Collections which was just awarded a NEH Grant: Humanities Collections and Reference…

Two Office of the Provost Mentoring Awards went to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese this year! Congratulations to Prof. Lillian Gorman and Doctoral Student Romy Cerón Canché.

Students in the Translation and Interpretation (T&I) Program provided interpretation services for the UA Arizona Model United Nations (AZMUN). A team of 13 T&I students participated in AZMUN’s 20th bilingual, binational, and bicultural…