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Spanish and Portuguese Studies College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Awards

Book Awards

  • International Latino Book Award – Best Women’s Issues Book Honorable Mention, by the International Latino Book Awards and Empowering Latino Futures, 2025.
  • Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Award by the Association of Gender and Sexualities Studies, 2025. 
  • LASA – Visual Culture Studies Book Prize by the Visual Culture Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2025.
  • Alfred B. Thomas Book Award by the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), 2025.
  • Klaus D. Vervuert Hispanic Essay Award for the best book (3rd edition): Invaginaciones Coloniales: Mirada, genitalidad y (de)generación en la Modernidad Temprana. By the Cervantes Institute, Iberoamericana Vervuert, Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH), the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut of Berlín (IAI), German Association of Hispanists (AAH)/Deutscher Hispanistenverband (DHV), the Faculty of Philology – Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and the Center for Human and Social Sciences of the Superior Council for Scientific Research (CSIC – Spain).

Articles Awards

2023   LASA – José María Arguedas Essay Award. For the publication: “‘Multiplicarse ha la tierra de gente y de fruto’: Gender and Re-production in Las Casas’s and Guaman Poma’s Biopolitical Projects (1516, 1615).” Latin American Studies Association, Perú Section. 
2023 2023 Sturgis Leavitt Award for the best article: “‘Yo llana estoy’ o el despliegue de una virginidad queer,” by SECOLAS (the Southeastern Council for Latin American Studies).
2023 LASA – Sylvia Molloy Best Article Award – honorable mention. For the article: “‘Yo llana estoy’ o el despliegue de una virginidad queer.” Latin American Studies Association, Sexualities Section. 
2023 LASA – Visual Culture Best Article Award – honorable mention. For the article: “‘Yo llana estoy’ o el despliegue de una virginidad queer.” Latin American Studies Association, Visual Culture Studies Section.
2022 LASA – Culture, Power & Politics Award – Best Paper – Senior Category. For the work: “Recogimiento” y buen gobierno: jurisdicciones para la re-producción y multiplicación de los indios”. Latin American Studies Association, Culture, Power & Politics Section.
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).”

Collaborative Research Project Awards

2024 Best Collaborative Project Award by GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800)) for the dossier ‘Yo llana estoy’: Jerarquías, transgresiones y despliegues de género en América hispana colonial (1492-1898). Edited by Yamile Silva and Ana María Díaz Burgos. Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades 48.1. (2022). Contribution to this volume: “‘Yo llana estoy’ o el despliegue de una virginidad queer.”

Academic Awards

2020 Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Award in Humanities, University of Notre Dame.
2015    High Pass grade in master’s exam, Romance Languages and Literatures Department, University of Notre Dame.
2008  Academic Excellence Scholarship, Universidad de Los Andes.

Teaching Awards and Recognitions

2025 Career Influencer Award Nomination, Faculty Category, Career Connections Center, University of Florida, Spring 2025. 
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.

Student’s Awards (publications under my supervision) 

2024 Edward H. Moseley Student Paper Award by SECOLAS to Maria Victoria Muñoz for the paper: “‘En el origen fue la china’: rescatando la voz silenciada en la mujer de Martín Fierro en diálogo con el Martín Fierro.” Developed under my supervision, December 2023-April 2024. 
2023  

 Emilia Pardo Bazan Essay Award by Feministas Unidas to Maria Victoria Muñoz for the paper: “Aventuras de la liminalidad: la transgresión de los límites del género gauchesco en Las aventuras de la China Iron de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. Un estudio biopolítico.” Developed during my graduate seminar “Illness, Contagion, and Biopolitics in LA Lit and Cultures” (SPW 6934), University of Florida (Fall 2021).