Stone Center Spring Awards Ceremony 2024

The Stone Center Spring Award Ceremony took place last week where we celebrated graduate and undergraduate students during the past academic year. See the list of the honorees below! 

2024 Awards and Paper Prizes

William J. Griffith Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Latin American Studies
Mila Suzano Fernndes Lima

Stone Center Award for Best Campus-Wide Undergraduate Paper on a Latin American Topic
Claudia Garcia, “Conceptualizing Femicide in Legislation: The Cases of Costa Rica & Guatemala”

Harvey & Victoria Bricker Award for the Best Undergraduate Paper in Social Science by a Latin American
Studies Major/Minor
Judith Minnium, “Indigenous Wisdom and Landscape Alteration: Kayapó Sustainable Forest
Management and the Creation of Apêtê in Amazonia”

Alberto Vázquez Award for the Best Undergraduate Paper in Humanities by a Latin American Studies
Major/Minor
Celia Acosta, “Plants, Women and Liberation in Claribel Alegría’s Luisa in Realityland”

Stone Center Award for Best Campus-Wide Graduate Paper on a Latin American Topic
Cyntoya McCall, “Exploring the Complexities of Afro-Colombian Heritage Tourism”

Richard E. Greenleaf Award for the Best Graduate Paper in the Social Sciences by a Latin American
Graduate Student
Juliette Maasland, “Politics of Minning the Atacama Desert: An Analysis of Strategies to Change
of Maintain the Status Quo of Extraction”

Donald Robertson Award for the Best Graduate Paper in Humanities by a Latin American Graduate
Student
Isdanny Morales Sosa, “Home-Memory-Migration: The Wiki Pirela’s Chilean Artwork (2017-
2023)”

LAGO Awards

Outstanding Staff Member Service Award
James Huck

Outstanding Faculty Member Service Award
I. Carolina Caballero

Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award
Chassidy Simmons