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Research Accolades

Spring 2021

Congratulations to Dr. David Navarro who received the prestigious 2020 John K. Walsh Award of "article of the year" for “Revalorización de los conceptos de pecado y delito en las Siete Partidas y las Cantigas de Santa Maria”["Revaluation of the Terms Sin and Crime in Siete Partidas and in Cantigas de Santa Maria"] which he co-authored with Dr. Yolanda Iglesias of University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada).

Fall 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Sharon Ugalde for receiving the Premio Victoria Urbano, a lifetime academic achievement award by the Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades!

From the AEGS-AGSS website:

Premio al reconocimiento académico: Sharon Keefe Ugalde, Catedrática Distinguida de Texas State University.
Merecedora del Premio Victoria Urbano en esta categoría por su extensa producción académica y su labor de descubrimiento, estudio y divulgación de escritoras del mundo hispánico, una contribución fundamental para varias generaciones en nuestra profesión. Su trayectoria fue descrita por los miembros del jurado de la siguiente manera: “constituye una evidencia insoslayable de un corpus académico extensísimo y de gran calidad académica que da cuenta de la investigación, la publicación y el mentorazgo a estudiantes de doctorado en el campo de la poesía peninsular escrita por mujeres, así como, en otras instancias de su carrera, con la creación de cursos específicamente dedicados a autoras chicanas.” Otro miembro del jurado añadió, “She is a true feminist scholar that has saved women writers from oblivion.”

Spring 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Valentina Glajar, a professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages at Texas State University, who has been named an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow.

Glajar is the first ACLS Fellow named at Texas State. She is among 81 fellowship awardees in the United States and United Kingdom out of a pool of more than 1,100 applicants.The fellowship, which includes a $70,000 stipend, will support Glajar as she researches and writes The Afterlife of Files: Herta Müller's Story of Surveillance.

The monograph will reconstruct Nobel Laureate Herta Müller’s story of surveillance by communist Romania’s secret police. It will include detailed analyses of her secret police file, the file of her former husband, writer Richard Wagner, as well as informer and cadre files. Each chapter will present a multilayered story that is recorded in the secret police files. The files that intersect and overlap with Müller’s own presents a precarious collage of life stories during the Cold War. Intricate and particular, the stories illuminate the blurred boundary between victims and perpetrators in a society ripe with fear, suspicion and misinformation.

Spring 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Jaffe for having received the NEH Summer Stipend, an extremely competitive grant funded at only 11%, and the Hispanex Program of Spain's Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte Grant to produce a collaborative book with U.S. and Spanish historians and literary scholars on the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito de la Sociedad Económica Matritense de Amigos del País (the Women’s Council of Honor and Merit of the Royal Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country). This pioneering philanthropic organization of aristocratic and elite women was founded in 1787 to promote enlightened reform and the improvement of women’s education and professional training, especially that of the most unfortunate classes of Madrid society.