2026 Faculty Achievements and Honors
June 2, 2026 (last updated on September 10, 2026)
Faculty Achievements and Honors
- Larissa Brewer-García: Grant from national government of Spain for joint research project, “Subgrafías: Artefactos, memorias y gestos subalternos en la historia social de la culturaescrita (siglos XVI-XXI),” 2025-2027
- Carlos Halaburda: 2026-27 Franke Faculty Residential Fellowship; 2026-27 IIRP Resident Faculty Fellowship for “Material Regimes: Gender, Architecture, and Biopolitics in Latin American Cultures”
- Maria Anna Mariani: 2026 McKeon Center Faculty Grant for “As I Write Dying: Memoirs of the End”; 2026 IIRP Faculty Grant for “The Art of Dying: First-Person Narratives of Death from Ars Moriendi to the Digital Age”
- Larry Norman: Elected to Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe), 2026
- François Richard: 2025-26 Franke Faculty Residential Fellowship
- Danielle Roper: will be promoted to Associate Professor with tenure on July 1
Teaching Fellow Placements
- Thomaz Amancio: tenure-track position at University of California, Berkeley
- Ryan Brown: Assistant Professor of French, Department of Modern Language Studies, Texas Christian University (tenure-track)
- Darren Kusar: Assistant Instructional Professor, Chicago Center for Writing, University of Chicago
Language Instructor Awards/Recognitions
- Promotions: Sara Dallavalle (Associate Instructional Professor), Juliano Saccomani (Associate Instructional Professor)
- Reappointments: Ariane Echenique (Assistant Instructional Professor), Georgy Khabarovskiy (Assistant Instructional Professor), Leonardo Cabrini (Assistant Instructional Professor), Megan Marshall (Assistant Instructional Professor), Nico Portugal (Assistant Instructional Professor), Sylvie Goutas (Associate Instructional Professor), Isabelle Faton (Assistant Instructional Professor)
- Veronica Moraga: Diversity Leadership Award for El Cafecito
- Veronica Moraga and Nico Portugal: CCTL ETG for Teaching Across Language
- Sara Dallavalle: CCTL Pedagogy Fellow
- Sara Dallavalle, Celia Bravo Diaz, Diana Palenzuela: Grant from the AI and Education Working Group for “AI-Driven Placement Testing for Spanish and Italian: Enhancing Language Placement Accuracy Through ACTFL-Aligned Assessment.”
- Gerdine Ulysse: Top Ten Influential Women in March 2026 by the Haitian Executive Board
We also will bid farewell to some of our faculty members. Congratulations to these fantastic scholars on their placements, we look forward to seeing what you will do!
Departures and Retirements
- Thomaz Amancio, Teaching Fellow
- Ryan Brown, Teaching Fellow
- Beatrice Fazio, Teaching Fellow
- Peadar Kavanagh, Teaching Fellow
- Darren Kusar, Teaching Fellow
- Eduardo Leão, Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish
- Ana Flávia Boeing Marcelino, Portuguese Research Associate
- Robert Morrissey, Benjamin Franklin Professor of French Literature
- Mario Santana, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature
- Matías Spector, Teaching Fellow