Stone Center Recognizes Outstanding Students in 2021 Awards Ceremony
2021 Graduate Degree Recipients
Nico Barnum, Master of Arts in Latin American Studies
Thesis: Challenging Maya Conceptions of Illness and Wellness: The Kaqchikel and COVID-19
Holly Devon, Master of Arts in Latin American Studies
Thesis: Serviteurs at the Crossroads: Western Scholarship in the Shadow of Haitian Vodou
Sarah Scism, Master of Arts in Latin American Studies
Thesis: Underlying Conditions: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Xenophobic Trends in Costa Rica
Ana María López Caldwell, PhD in Latin American Studies
Dissertation: The Socioeconomic Stratification System in Colombia: How A Governmental Subsidy Distribution Mechanism Serves to Demarcate Boundaries
Erin McCutcheon, PhD in Latin American Studies
Dissertation: Somo Madres ¿Y Qué Más?: Feminism, Maternal Subjectivity, and Artistic Practice in Mexico City, 1971-1991
Amy Medvick, PhD in Latin American Studies
Dissertation: _Queens and Batuqueiras: Race, Gender, and Knowledge in the Transnational Migrations of Afro-Brazilian Maracatu Nação
Undergraduate Student Paper Awards
Riley Moran
The Alberto Vázquez Prize for the best paper written on humanities subject by an undergraduate major in the interdisciplinary Latin American Studies program awarded for the paper, “Porque te Quiero, Quieres: Queer Self-Representation and Folkloric Subversion in Chavela Vargas’ “La Llorona”
nominated by Professor Edie Wolfe
Hannah Ellison
The Harvey and Victoria Bricker Prize for the best paper written on a social science subject by an undergraduate major in the interdisciplinary Latin American Studies program awarded for the paper, “Match Made in Heaven: Multi-Level Marketing and Neo-Pentecostalism’s Use of Prosperity Gospel to Create Buy-In of Latin American Hegemony”
nominated by Professor Jimmy Huck
Callie Balbeck
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies Prize for the best campus-wide Latin Americanist Undergraduate Paper for the aper, “Through the Looking Glass: The United States Government and America’s Productions, Incorporated”
nominated by Professor Jana Lipman
Graduate Student Paper Awards
Rosie Click
The Donald Robertson Prize for the best paper in the humanities by a student in the interdisciplinary graduate program in Latin American Studies for the paper, “Submerged in Nature: Conceptions of Nature in Historical and Literary Texts of Latin America”
nominated by Professor Jimmy Huck
Maria Pautassi
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies Prize for the best campus-wide Latin Americanist Graduate Paper for the paper, “Imperial Visions of Space, Landscape, and Territory: Two Stereographs from the Underwood & Underwoof 1901 Boxed Set on Puerto Rico”
nominated by Professor Elizabeth Boone
Graduate Student Teaching Award
Carolina Timoteo de Oliveira
The William Griffith Award for best Latin American Studies Graduate Student Instructo
LAGO Service Awards
Presented by the Latin American Studies Graduate Student Organization for outstanding service
Dr. Ana Sánchez-Rojo, Associate Professor, Department of Music
Oustanding Faculty Member
Sarah Scism, Latin American Studies
Oustanding Graduate Student
Dr. Hannah Palmer, Program Manager for Academic Programs, Stone Center for Latin American Studies
Oustanding Staff Member
Special thanks to our 2021 paper jurors: Dan Sharp, Carolina Caballero, Hannah Palmer, Justin Wolfe, Ana Claudia Santos Sao Bernando, Edie Wolde and Kate McKiernan
