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• JOÃO NEMI NETO receives a 2025 Scholars-in-Residence Award

João Nemi Neto has been invited to join the first cohort of 12 scholars-in-residence will serve their residencies at five Columbia Global Centers. They will advance their teaching and research work, while immersing themselves in their Center's local academic and cultural environments. Neto’s project focuses on developing inclusive language teaching practices technology and identities in Rio de Janeiro.

• ALESSANDRA RUSSO wins the 2025 Eleanor Tufts Award

Professor Alessandra Russo’s latest publication, A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600 (Penn State University Press), is this year’s recipient of the Eleanor Tufts Award. As noted by the Prize Committee, “this book is an extraordinarily mature piece of scholarship…that has the ability to reach a wide [audience]. It offers an influential paradigm shift that contributes to a new conception of artifacts from Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.”

Named for the distinguished feminist art historian and professor at Southern Methodist University, Eleanor Tufts (1927–1991), this award recognizes an outstanding English-language book in the fields of Spanish or Portuguese art and architectural history.

• GRACIELA MONTALDO receives the 2025 Kalman Silvert Award

The prestigious Kalman Silvert Award, was created in 1982 to honor the first president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and is presented every year to an eminent senior scholar for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study of Latin America.  Both research and professional contributions are considered for the Kalman Silvert Award, which is LASA's highest honor.

• Review of Cognitive Linguistics, co-edited by REYES LLOPIS-GARCÍA

It is our pleasure to announce the recent publication of a Special Issue in the prestigious journal Review of Cognitive Linguistics, guest co-edited by Ana María Piquer-Piriz & Reyes Llopis-García. Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms: The challenges of empirical testing addresses issues of classroom-based research, and attempts to counter the publication bias that is so prevalent in Applied Linguistics, and that mostly features studies that have been successful, thus skewing thus the reality of data collection and yielding no lessons learned for future applications. The work of LAIC Senior Lecturers Irene Alonso-Aparicio and Reyes Llopis-García is featured in this special issue.