Diogo Cosme was selected as one of the teaching assistants for this prestigious program. 

Professor of Spanish Elizabeth Wright and associate professor of French Rachel Gabara of the Romance languages department were awarded $6,000 each for summer stipends, highly competitive grants that provide full-time support for work by a scholar on a humanities project for two months.

Emily Sahakian, an assistant professor in the Romance languages and theatre and film studies departments of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has developed a reputation as one of the foremost experts of French Caribbean theater and is a leading specialist of Francophone theater.

The University of Georgia’s Laurel Hiatt was one of 59 undergraduates from across the nation to be named a 2018 Truman Scholar, a highly competitive graduate scholarship program for aspiring public service leaders in the U.S. 

Congratulations to Romance Languages faculty and graduate students, who have had the following papers accepted to HLS21, to be held on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX on October 26-28, 2017!