Veronica Vegna, Senior Instructional Professor in Italian and Director of the Italian Language Program, has been awarded the Humanities Division's 2021 Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy.
Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition, Veronica!
The French government has promoted Arnold I. Davidson to the rank of Commandeur--the highest rank--in the order of knighthood of which he is a member, the Ordre des Palmes Académiques. This honor was conferred for his exceptional contribution to the teaching and promotion of French thought and culture. Congratulations, Arnold!
Larissa Brewer-García has been honored with two prizes from the Latin American Studies Association: the Flora Tristán Award for the Best Book on Peru for Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada, and the Award for the Best Article by Junior Faculty in Colonial Studies for “Hierarchy and Holiness in the Earliest Colonial Black Hagiographies: Alonso de Sando