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Congratulations to our Spring 2021 Whitten Scholarship Awardees
Each year the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection is recognized by way of the Whitten…

Manuela Olaru and Caroline Shipley Receive the 2020-2021 SPPO Associated Faculty Award for Excellence in Second Language Teaching & Learning
The SPPO Associated Faculty Teaching Award Committee (Dr. Holly Nibert, Dr. Scott Schwenter, and Ms. Megan Lobert) is please to announce that Manuela Olaru and Caroline Shipley have…

SPPO Graduate Student Luana Lamberti Receives OSU Graduate School's Presidential Fellowship
The department would like to congratulate SPPO graduate student Luana Lamberti for receiving a Presidential Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year. The …

Two SPPO Majors Among the Winners of OSU's 26th Annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese recently had several students participate in OSU’s virtual 26th Annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum! There were over 180 students…

Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros Featured in Columbus Business First's 40 Under 40
Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Latin American Studies librarian and SPPO courtesy associate professor at Ohio State University Libraries, was recently named one of the 2021 class of Columbus…

SPPO Ph.D. Candidate Justin Pinta Featured in Ohio State Fulbright & Fulbright-Hays Virtual 2021 Reception Video
SPPO Ph.D. candidate Justin Pinta has been featured in the Ohio State Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays Virtual 2021 Reception video. Justin’s project “Minority Language Resilience in Corrientes,…

SPPO Graduate Student Kendra Dickinson Receives Graduate Associate Leadership Award (GALA)
It is a true pleasure to announce that SPPO graduate student Kendra V. Dickinson has won one of the 2020-2021 Graduate Associate Leadership Awards (GALA).
The Graduate…

SPPO Graduate Student Palo Pinillos Chávez Receives Second Place in Humanities at 35th Annual Hayes Research Forum
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate SPPO graduate student Palo Pinillos Chávez on winning second place in the Humanities section at the 35th…

SPPO Graduate Student Henrique Yagui Takahashi Awarded Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Graduate Team Fellowship
SPPO graduate student, Henrique Yagui Takahasi, has been awarded a Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Graduate Team Fellowship for the year 2021-2022.
Henrique will…