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Join us in congratulating Assistant Professor Kristin Doran for winning the College of Humanities Distinguished Faculty Advisor Award! Professor Doran is the Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese…

Please join us in congratulating Ángela Matute Sánchez for winning the College of Humanities Outstanding GAT Award! Here is a quick bio about Ángela: “I am a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Arizona with a minor in SLAT…

Join us in congratulating Amy Warren, our administrative assistant in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for being awarded a 2021 UA Award for Excellence. Amy has inspired positive growth in the department, and is a key player in its success…

A University of Arizona researcher is turning to digital mapping technology to reveal new insights about a nearly 500-year-old text and shed assumptions about early exploration of what is today the United States and the legacy of European power in…

We recently received these words from alumni Donald Frischmann: This Long, Winding Road... Rolls On! It was mid-August 1985. With fresh Ph.D. in hand, I watched the magical Tucson Valley fade from view (though never from my heart!) as I began…

Two College of Humanities seniors have swept the university's 2020 Centennial Achievement Undergraduate Awards. Derek Foehrkolb, graduating in December with degrees in Russian and Slavic Studies and public management and policy, and…

Ways to get in touch with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Main Office: spanish@arizona.edu 520-621-3123 (please leave a voicemail with a phone number or email address for follow-up; *students, please leave your netid or student id)

Nichole Guard, Senior Program Coordinator in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has been honored as one of nine recipients for this year’s University of Arizona Individual Awards for Excellence.   Guard, who joined the University in…

Richard P. Kinkade, a prolific and award-winning Spanish medievalist scholar who served as the first Dean of Humanities and a revered mentor and professor during 42 years at the University of Arizona, has died. He was 81.   Malcolm Compitello…

Bruna Sommer-Farias, an instructor of Portuguese finishing her doctoral degree in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, is awarded the College of Humanities 2020 Outstanding GAT Award.  Sommer-Farias first came to the University of Arizona…

Three professors in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese have been promoted, demonstrating excellent performance in teaching, service and research.  Ana Cornide is promoted from Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese to Associate…

As languages overlap and blend in border regions, bilingual speakers demonstrate the subtle ways speaking patterns shift and adapt to linguistic influences while maintaining the grammar of both languages.  An ongoing University of Arizona…