LAIC Graduate Student Awards
Professor Sara M. Parkinson Saz and Professor Carlos Saz established the Saz-Parkinson Fund in 2015 in memory of their son, Carlos Roberto Saz-Parkinson, who earned a Ph.D. from our department in 2007. As imagined by the funders: "It is our preference that consideration be given to Ph.D. students who are 1) pursuing a dissertation on Iberian or Iberian related topics in Spanish/Castilian literature and who are in need of additional funding to travel to Iberian archives and libraries to do research; 2) students pursuing a dissertation on Iberian literature, who need to carry out archival research at another institution in the United States or overseas; or 3) students who have been selected to present a paper on Iberian literature at a conference in Spain or elsewhere. The Chair of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, in consultation with faculty in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, shall select the recipient students from the departmental call for projects based on these preferences."
The award in recent years has been in the amount of $2500. The committee occasionally chooses to award two fellowships of $1250 instead of a single fellowship for $2500.
- Annual prize for excellence in graduate studies in the field of Latin American and Iberian Cultures that is awarded in two categories: Ángel del Río Prize for Best Essay and Ángel del Río Prize for Best Dissertation Chapter.
Jana Soler Libran (2026)
Flor Barceló and Arnau Sala Sallent (2025)
Alberto Carpio, Ramón Flores Pinedo, Sara García, Juan Carlos Garzón Mantilla and Brais Lamela (2020)
Iria Ameixeiras (2018)
Marta Ferrer (2017)
Gustavo Maan for best essay | Renata Ruiz for best dissertation chapter (2025)
Emily Oliveira and Jana Soler Libran for best essay | Tulio Bucchioni for best dissertation chapter (2024)
Miguel Ángel Blanco for best essay | Manuela Luengas Solano for best dissertation chapter (2023)
Canto V. Engelhard for best essay | Elvira Blanco for best dissertation chapter (2022)
Mónica Cerda and Renata Ruiz for best essay | Begoña Alberdi for best dissertation chapter (2021)
Elvira Blanco for best essay | Iria Ameixeiras for best dissertation chapter (2020)
Eduardo Andrés Vergara for best essay | Juan Carlos Garzón Mantilla for best dissertation chapter (2019)
Nicole P. Basile for best essay | David Colmenares for best dissertation chapter (2018)
Alexandra V. Méndez for best essay | Daniella Wurst for best dissertation chapter (2017)
Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman for best essay | Wendy Muñiz for best dissertation chapter (2016)
Daniella Wurst for best essay | Cristina Pérez-Jiménez for best dissertation chapter (2015)
Santiago Acosta for best essay | Sarah Goldberg for best dissertation chapter (2014)
Benjamin Johnson, Olga Rodríguez Ulloa and Jessica Dzaman (2012)