Stone Center Spring Awards Ceremony 2022
The Stone Center Spring Award Ceremony celebrated graduate and undergraduate students last weekend. See the list of graduates and honors here!
2022 Graduate Degree Recipients:
Patricia Gibbs Alexander Lagarde, PhD Facing Pilgrimage: Tenon Head Sculptures at the Ceremonial Center of Chavín de Huántar, Peru
Vanessa Castañeda, PhD Political and Traditional: The Baianas de Acarajé of Salvador, Brazil
Maria Alejandra Castillo Casco, MA Socias de Desarrollo: Entrepreneurial Logic and Indigenous Women in the Western Highlands of Guatemala
Virginia "Rosie" Click, MA Power and Tourism in Cuba, 1902-2022
Kaillee Kieran Coleman, MA When I Am Not Here, Estoy Allá: A Decolonial Approach to U.S.-Cuban Special Collections, Historiography, and Art Historical Production
Huiying Cui, MA Migrant-Based Operational Patterns in the Coffee Production Sector in Honduras and a Gendered Perspective
Diane Ghogomu, MA Elulua: An Afrocosmic Pleasure Praxis
Jamie Marissa Giunta, MA Representations of Nikkei in Brazilian Literature: From Modernism to Manga
Marina Suzanne Hernandez, MA
Gabrielle Hutchinson Gallo, MA
Lilian Lombera, MA Diálogo Entre Cimarrones: Afro Cuban Funk & New Orleans Black Indians Tradition
Nicolas Javier López Casertano, MA Questioning ‘Chapin’ Identity in Iximulew: Maya Voices from the Settler Colony Known as ‘Guatemala’
Frida Camille Melgar, MA Gatekeeper Mindset: Mexico Learning from Its Northern Neighbor
Isabel Erin Owen, MA
Liat Rosenblum Perlin, MA
Explaining Smallholder Farmer Tropical Deforestation in Northwest Ecuador
Allison Waverly Scribe, MA
Exponiendo Fieles: An Ethnography of Online Fandom in Latin America”
Elena G. Vanasse Torres, MA
Primero Secaron Los Ríos: Topographic Hauntings and Mapping Other Worlds on Isla Vieques, Puerto Rico
Kyle Baxter Young MA, Espaço Queer: The Construction of Queer Collective Identity in Brazil’s Digital Spaces
2022 Undergraduate Degree Recipients
Hannah Ellis, BA
Jin Wei Rahill, BA
Charles Sellars, BA
Konrad Wampler, BA
William Brzezinski, Minor
Lily Quirk, Minor
J.P. Rodocanachi, Minor
Tess Stroh, Minor
John Walsh, Minor
Awards and Paper Prizes
Catie Nuckols-Wilde, The William Griffith Award for Best Latin American Studies Graduate Student Instructor
Xena Fitzgerald, Making Memories: Celebrating Jesuit Triumph in Lima, The Donald Robertson Award for the Best Graduate Paper in the Humanities on a Latin American Topic
Carmen Vescia, From Radical Roots to Cultivating Continuity: Food Sovereignty and US Urban Agriculture for Latinx Communities, the Richard E. Greenleaf Award for Best Graduate Paper in the Social Sciences on a Latin American Topic
LAGO Awards
James Huck, LAGO Outstanding Faculty Member Service Award
Alejandra Castillo, LAGO Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award
Daniela Alvarez, LAGO Outstanding Staff Member Service Award
Stone Center faculty and staff congratulate the class of 2022 for their hard work and a job well done!
