Awards

Congratulations to Professor Nic Flores for being named a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) scholar by the College of LAS.Flores specializes in public and sexual health, HIV...

Dr. Natalie Lira has been named as one of the College of LAS's 2022-2023 Helen Corley Petit Scholars (for early career scholars) for her contributions in education and research. Congratulations, Natalie! 

LLS congratulates faculty member Natalie Lira upon receiving a 2022 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award. The  Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure identifies particularly excellent cases during the promotion review process,...

Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring and Summer 2021!SPRING 2021Atiles, Osoria, J.  SOC 275, 479Burgos, A.  HIST/LLS 280Ettinger, S.  TA-LLS 279Garcia...

Congratulations to Prof. Sandra Ruiz for being named a 2021 Conrad Humanities Scholar! The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years....

  It gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of this year’s LLS scholarships and paper award.Isabella “Issy” Marquez, Latina/Latino Studies, English, and Political Science major, and May 2021 graduate, is the winner of the ...

Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and TAs who made it onto the University's list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2020! Burgos, A. HIST/LLS 281, HIST 390Cervantes, V. SPAN 324Cisneros, J. COMM 250, 538De La Garza, J. LLS 242, 442Ettinger, S. TA-HIST 272Flores, N. LLS 230...

Prof. Sandra Ruiz has been awarded a Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellowship for the 2021–22 academic year for her project titled, “Minoritarian Pedagogy: Psychoanalytic Affections in the Space of Aesthetics.” The...

Professor Natalie Lira has been awarded the 2020-21 Latina/Latino Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award honors the Department’s best teachers. Professor Lira is an engaging and dedicated teacher who has had a tremendous...

Senior Issy Marquez (triple major in Latina/Latino Studies, English, and Political Science) recently received the Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award. "The annual award goes to one senior from each participating four-year college and university in Illinois. Each year, the Lincoln Academy...