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RECENT AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

JERÓNIMO DUARTE RIASCOS has been awarded a 2026-2027 Heyman Fellowship for the project: Ways of Living: Alternative Communities in Modern and Contemporary Latin America. Funded by the Office of the Executive Vice-President of the Arts & Sciences, the Heyman Center Fellowships provide four junior Columbia faculty with course relief during the academic year.

2025:

VIVIAN ARIMANY is the recipient of a 2025 Sundial Emerging Literary Translator Award for her translation of Juliana Rozo's Archaeology of a Swan.

MIGUEL ÁNGEL BLANCO was selected as a 2025-26 GSAS Teaching Scholar.

AGNESE CODEBÒ (LAIC PhD, 2017) Associate Professor of Spanish at Villanova University, will receive the 2025 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize at the MLA Convention in Toronto for The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires. The prize honors an outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. 

TAMARA HACHE was selected for the 20225 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student Instructor. To receive this award is a great honor, as it demonstrates commitment to excellent and often innovative teaching as recognized by the entire Columbia community.

SETH KIMMEL received the 2025 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. Professor Kimmel is recognized by this prestigious award “for skill in bringing together diverse groups of students to expand their intellectual horizons in an environment built around empathy and mutual respect, cultivating a strong sense of community in his classrooms, unwavering dedication to undergraduate and graduate mentorship, and leveraging New York City as a living laboratory for exploration and learning.”

REYES LLOPIS-GARCÍA co-edited a special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics with Ana María Piquer-Piriz. The Special Issue, entitled 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 Lecturer Irene Alonso-Aparicio is also featured in this special issue.

LIZDANELLY LÓPEZ CHICLANA, a senior Columbia College student double majoring in Hispanic Studies and Philosophy, was awarded a 2025 Sundial Emerging Literary Translator Award for her translation of Valeria Correa Fiz's Perder el Sur | Adrift (Sundial House 2025).

MANUELA LUENGAS received a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Humanities at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University (2025-2026).

GUSTAVO MAAN was awarded the Ángel del Río Prize for an essay titled “Portugal através do espelho-Kongo.”

LEX MEISEL, Columbia College Class of 2025 and minor in Catalan, was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for 2025-2026.  Lex is in Barcelona investigating the Alguerese dialect of Catalan, extending the research that comprised Lex’s senior thesis, which Elsa Úbeda, Director of the Catalan Program supervised. Lex minored in Catalan and double-majored in linguistics and comparative literature.

GRACIELA MONTALDO received 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.

JOÃO NEMI NETO received a 2025 Scholars-in-Residence Award and joined the first cohort of 12 scholars-in-residence to serve their residencies at five Columbia Global Centers. The scholars advanced 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.

MÓNICA RAMÍREZ-BERNAL was awarded a short-term fellowship at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

JUAN CAMILO ROJAS was selected as LAIC’s 2025-2026 GSAS Lead Teaching Fellow.

RENATA RUIZ was awarded the Ángel del Río Prize for a dissertation chapter titled "El imposible mundo del Tlalocan: ontología, lenguaje y alteridad del cosmos mesoamericano."

GUADALUPE RUIZ-FAJARDO was awarded the Beca Hispanex del Ministerio de Cultura de España.

ALESSANDRA RUSSO’s latest publication, A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600 (Penn State University Press), was awarded the 2025 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.”

DANIEL S. SÁENZ received a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” Research Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana—Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte / Max Planck Institure for Art History in Rome.

SUNDIAL HOUSE received a grant from the government of Spain's Programa para la Internacionalización de la Cultura Española (PICE) to host the book presentation of Adrift, by Valeria Correa Fiz; translated by LAIC major Lizdanelly López Chiclana.  Luisa Etxenike’s Crossing Waters, translated by Dr. Lilit Thwaites and published by Sundial House, was selected by the American Literary Translators Association as the recipient of the 2025 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award.