2024 Romance Studies Convocation

2024 Convocation PhDs & FacultyOn May 17, the Romance Studies Department held our annual convocation to celebrate our graduating undergraduate and graduate students, along with the department’s award winners, who were recognized in front of faculty, family, and friends for their accomplishments!

Doctor of Philosophy in French Language & Literature

Tiffany Bailey – Disseration: Girl Gang: Black Girlhood in France Represented Through
Contemporary Film and Literature

Brittany Bernard – Dissertation: Revenants: Gendered Memories of Trauma in the Works of Leïla Sebbar, Diane Kurys, Alice Zeniter, and Mati Diop

Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Language & Literature

Braden Clinger – Dissertation: Mediations of Popular Belief in the Southern Cone: Museums,
Prose, New Media, and Film on the Traditional Guarani Frontier

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish

Isabelle Hanna
Kalina Kokocharova
Sam McGuire
Anahi Janetsy Miranda
Hollie Shuler

Bachelor of Arts in French Studies

Phoebe Mullen

Romance Studies Undergraduate Award Winners

Isabelle Hanna, College Prize for Excellence in Romance Studies

Nikki Shapiro, Senior French Barbara Argote Award

Isabella LeBlanc, Junior French Barbara Argote Award

Phoebe Mullen, Isabella Leen Book Award  

Kalina Kokocharova, Senior Spanish Barbara Argote Award

Madison Keefer, Junior Spanish Barbara Argote Award

Kathryn Lakin, Romance Studies Book Award in Spanish

Fernando Bibiano, Award for Spanish Translation from Spanish, Department of Romance Studies and Instituto Cervantes, Harvard University

Cosette Potter, Portuguese Honors Society

Dara R. Oliveira, Tarsila do Amaral Award and Portuguese Honors
Society

McKenzie Hackett, Carrie O’Connor Memorial Travel Fund Recipient

Ella Nigro, Carrie O’Connor Memorial Travel Fund Recipient

Congratulations to all our graduates and award winners!