2024 Romance Studies Convocation
On 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