Annual Awards Ceremony Held May 2, 2003
The
Department met on the fourth Floor of the Rusk Center to recognize
members who had received awards and honors during the academic
year. Dr. Noel Fallows, Head, presided and announced the following
awards.
Temporary
Instructor Teaching Award: Julia Barnes (Spanish)
Outstanding
Teaching Assistant Award: María del Puig Andrés
(Spanish), Kerri McKoy (French), Christina Rollins (Spanish),
Kimberly Welsh (French)
Dolores
Artau Award—awarded primarily on the basis of academic
excellence—Isabelle Buhot (French), Alessandra Pires (French),
Paula Pontes (Portuguese)
Modern
Foreign Languages Fund Study Abroad Travel Award—Established
in 1976 to provide scholarships for students majoring in modern
foreign languages and to give opportunity for foreign study. Awards
this year are to the amount of $400.00 per student
| Allison
Carter (Spanish) |
UGA
en España Maymester Program in Seville, Spain |
| Jennifer
Edwards (Political Science/Spanish) |
UGA
en España Maymester Program in Seville, Spain |
| Lisa
Franzen (French) |
State
University of West Georgia Program in France |
| Katy
Larsen (Spanish) |
UGA
in Niteroi, Brazil |
OTHER
AWARDS
FACULTY
Sarah Blackwell (Spanish) won a Center for Humanities
and Arts Visiting Scholar Award to bring Professor Jacob Mey to
campus;
Luis Correa-Díaz (Spanish) is the recipient
of a UGA Vice President for Research Foreign Travel Award
Cathy Jones (French) is the recipient of a UGA
Research Foundation Senior Faculty Research Grant to support a
project entitled “Philippe de Vigneulles and the Art of
Dérimage”; Cathy is also this year’s winner
of the Lothar Tresp Outstanding Honors Professor Award
Jonathan Krell’s (French) translation
Eleazar, Exodus to the West, by Michel Tournier, was nominated
for 2003 Lois Roth Award (MLA Prize for Literary Translation)
and the American Literary Translators Association Award
Robert Moser (Portuguese) was awarded a Sarah
Moss Research Fellowship
Tom Peterson (Italian) is the recipient of a
UGA Research Foundation Senior Faculty Research Grant to support
a project entitled “The Turn of the Scribe”
Susan Quinlan was elected President of Brazilian
Studies Association
Carmen Tesser was awarded the Robert G. Mead
Award for Distinguished Leadership and Scholarly contribution
to the Profession by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish
and Portuguese; Carmen is also the winner of UGA’s Study
in a Second Discipline Award; and she is the recipient of the
Southern Conference on Language Teaching Award for Outstanding
Foreign Language Teaching at the Post-Secondary level
Betsy Wright is the recipient of a UGA Research
Foundation Junior Faculty Research Grant to support a project
entitled “Religious Drama in Nahuatl from the Late Colonial
Era;” Betsy also received a Franklin Research Grant from
the American Philosophical Society in support of this project;
she was also awarded a UGA Lilly Fellowship
TEMPORARY PART-TIME INSTRUCTORS
Benjamín Milano received the Trofeo Ganador
in the category for religious songs, for his song “Aleluya
al Santo Dios,” and an Honorable Mention in the poems-and-lyrics-for-songs
category for his poem “Calvario” at the 32nd California
Festival of Latin American Song
GRADUATE
STUDENTS
Paula Pontes received the UGA Graduate School
Dean’s Award in the Arts and Humanities; she also received
the UGA Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award
Elena Adell, Rebecca Palmer and Paula Pontes
received UGA Tinker Foundation Graduate School Summer Field Research
Travel Awards
Marina Herbst was awarded a Graduate School Travel
Grant; Marina was also awarded a Modern Language Association Travel
Grant for Advanced Graduate Students
María del Puig Andrés was appointed
as a UGA TA Mentor
UNDERGRADUATES
Megan Crimmins, who majors in Political Science,
Women’s Studies and History, and minors in Spanish, has
been selected as the Outstanding Student in the Humanities. Her
Honors thesis entitled “NAFTA and Its Influences on the
Environment and Women in the Borderlands” was directed by
Professor Roberta Fernández.
STAFF
Michael Casuccio completed the Front Line Leadership Series at
the Office of Training and Development.
