Several faculty members from SLCL have been named Research Prize winners and Summer Faculty Fellows by the Humanities Research Institute (HRI).
2024–25 Humanities Research Prize Recipients
Each year, HRI recognizes excellence in humanities scholarship with awards given at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. They will be celebrating the winners at the Prizes for Research Ceremony and Year-End Reception on Thursday, May 8, 4–6 p.m. at the Spurlock Museum Atrium. Prizes will be awarded at 4 p.m. with reception to follow.
Faculty Prizes
WINNER
Anna Torres-Cacoullos (Spanish and Portuguese), “A Digital Archaeology of Early Hispanic Film Culture: Film Magazines and the Male Fan Reader,” with Elizaveta Senatarova (Slavic MA, 2023). Journal of Cultural Analytics, 9.4 (July 18, 2024)
Summer Faculty Fellows
HRI Summer Faculty Fellowships are designed to help faculty maximize the summer in service of their ongoing professional development. They provide an infusion of resources to jumpstart or fuel an ongoing research project, undertake course development, or pursue a professional training opportunity over the summer months.
RESEARCH
Mukhtar H. Ali (Religion), “The Compendium of Mysteries: A Study of Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’s Jāmiʿ al-Asrār”
Victoria Austen (Classics), “Landscaped Commemorabilia : The Mausoleum of Augustus as a Gardened Monument”
Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish and Portuguese), “The Uses and Effects of Artificial Intelligence in Latin American Cinema”
Leonard Cornell McKinnis II (African American Studies and Religion), “Everyday Muslim: An Ethnographic Study on the Nation of Islam”
COURSE DEVELOPMENT
Wei (Windy) Zhao (Architecture), ARCH 572: Place Making in Rural China.
Pilar Martínez-Quiroga (Spanish and Portuguese), SPAN 320, Cultural Studies, II: Facing Diversity: 50 Years of Democracy, Spain 1975-2025.