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Dr. Diana Ruggiero, an alumna of SPPO's Graduate Program, has been awarded the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Teacher of the Year Award for the College/…

On February 2nd, 2020 SPPO Associate Professor Dr. Pedro Pereira had an article published in Portugal’s daily Público. The article, "O padre António Vieira no país dos cordiais", was a…

K’acha Willaykuna

Our Unlearning Hour

Newsletter #3

February 10,…

Who counts as a speaker of a language? Have you ever thought about what it means to speak a language? As it turns out, the answer to this question is complex and deeply intertwined with the…

SPPO Faculty member, Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama, recently had a article featured in Latinx Spaces, an online publication that focuses on Latinx media. Dr. Aldama's article, "Brownface Minstrelsy;…

The Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empire research project is engaged in digitizing ritual and festival-related texts held at the National Library of Portugal and National Library of Ajuda. The…

Congratulations to SPPO associated faculty member Elvia Andía Grágeda, who recently won the Premio Guamán Poma de Ayala en Lengua Originaria, a national literary prize in Bolivia. Ms. Andía…

OSU Ph.D. student, Santiago Gualapuro Gualapuro, has published the very first Kichwa-English dictionary in the world. 

The goal of the dictionary is to empower Kichwa speakers and free the…

Elvia Andía Grágeda, Quechua instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the Ohio State University, recently became the first American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (…