At a ceremony and reception held Sept. 21 in Holmes Lounge, members of the Arts & Sciences community gathered to recognize recipients of the annual faculty and staff awards. Each award-winner has demonstrated exceptional service to the university through service, leadership, or teaching. Congratulations to all the awardees, including our own Miguel Valerio.
In a new book, Miguel Valerio uncovers the history of Afro-Mexican festival performances in colonial Mexico.
Washington University in St. Louis, Romance Languages and Literatures Department is hiring for an Assistant Professor of French.
Eight Arts & Sciences graduate students were honored for their achievements in undergraduate teaching and instruction.
Yamile Ferreira, a Ph.D. candidate in our Hispanic Studies program publishes an article in the journal Páginas. Revista Digital de la Escuela de Historia
A group of WashU students and professors E. Allen and L. Cuillé (RLL/French) paid a visit to the historical town of Sainte Genevieve, MO, for a day filled with guided tours and interactive lessons on French colonial foodways, architecture, and lifestyles.
Four graduate students in humanities departments at WashU attend the National Humanities Center’s Meaningful Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Classroom. During the week, WashU grad students engaged in team-based learning with graduate students from peer institutions to create instructional materials and to learn from a wide range of faculty and pedagogy-specialists from across the United States.
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity is happy to announce our 2022 cohort of Graduate Fellows, which includes Jeanne Rosine Abomo Edou, RLL Graduate Student in Hispanic studies and Comparative Literature.
Eliza Williamson, an anthropologist and a lecturer in Latin American studies and in Romance languages and literatures, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was awarded a postdoctoral fieldwork grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for longitudinal ethnographic research with families raising children diagnosed with congenital Zika syndrome in Bahia, Brazil.
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) at Washington University in St. Louis has announced six recipients of the 2023 CRE2 Faculty Fellowships, including Javier García-Liendo, associate professor of Spanish in Arts & Sciences, who will develop “The Children of Indigenismo: Schoolteachers and the Making of Popular Modernity in Peru, 1939-1967" and Akiko Tsuchiya, professor of Spanish and affiliate professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, both in Arts & Sciences, who will develop “The Politics of Public Memory: Racist and Colonial Monuments in Modern Spain.”
The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis recently awarded six Graduate Student Fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year.