Academic Honors and Award
2022 LASA – Culture, Power & Politics Section Award. Best Paper – Senior Category for the work: “Recogimiento” y buen gobierno: jurisdicciones para la re-producción y multiplicación de los indios”.
2020 Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Award in Humanities, University of Notre Dame.
2019 16th Annual Feministas Unidas Essay Prize. Feministas Unidas Inc., allied organization of the MLA.
2018 Victoria Urbano Graduate Student Essay Award by the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS) for the work “The Guamanpumian Gaze and Colonial Shame (Guaman Poma’s sketches of genitalia).”
2015 High Pass grade in master’s Exam awarded by MA Examination Committee, Romance Languages and Literatures Department, University of Notre Dame.
2008 Academic Excellence Scholarship, Universidad de Los Andes.
Teaching Awards
2020 +QM – Accelerated Course Call, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Florida (August 2020).
2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre Dame.
2017 GSU Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award. Graduate Student Union, University of Notre Dame.
2016 GSU Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Honorable Mention. Graduate Student Union, University of Notre Dame.
Research Grants and Fellowships
2022 Rothman Summer Fellowship for the project: “Well-Being Policies for the (Re)production of the Indigenous Population: Las Cases’s Remedies (1516) in Guaman Poma’s Good Government (1615)”. Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida.
2019-20 Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund for the project: “Transgenderism in the Spanish Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca’s Journey from Florida to Texas.” College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida.
2020 Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Travel Grant, University of Florida. LASA Guadalajara, 2020. Accepted on March 16, 2020. Conference canceled due to COVID-19.
2018 Residential Fellowship Feminisms and Science: Women in STEM (Oct-Nov 2018) at Faber, the Arts, Sciences and Humanities Residency of Catalonia in Olot-Spain. Link.
2018 Graduate Academic Year Travel & Research Grant for the project: “The Female Body of Knowledge: Inquisitorial Examinations and Pregnancy Models in Spain.” The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame. Catalonia and Madrid-Spain, October- November 2018.
2017 Kellogg Conference Travel Grant. The Kellogg Institute, Bogotá-Colombia.
2017 Notebaert Professional Development Award. Graduate School and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame, Bern-Switzerland.
2016 Conference Presentation Grant, Graduate Student Union, University of Notre Dame, La Paz-Bolivia.
2016 Kellogg Conference Travel Grant. The Kellogg Institute, Jena-Germany.
2015 Notebaert Professional Development Award. Graduate School and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame, San Juan-Puerto Rico.
2014 Downes Memorial Professional Development Award. Graduate School and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame, Costa Rica.
2014 Kellogg Institute Large Research Grant. “Ecuador Unframed. Dynamic Art and Radical Democracy in a Mural by Oswaldo Guayasamín.” Graduate Co-applicant with Carlos A. Jáuregui, 2014-2016.
Teaching Grants and Recognitions
2016 Center for the Study of Languages & Cultures (CSLC) grant for “Introduction to Hispanic Literatures and Cultures” course (Fall 2016).
2015 Teaching Beyond the Classroom Grant. Awarded with Carlos A. Jáuregui for The Symbolic Enchilada course. College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.