Carmen Arranz received a Dissertation Enhancement Award to conduct research in Madrid in summer 2008 on the topic of Modernity and the perspective of turn-of-the-century women writers.
Jarrod Brown was nominated for UK´s 2008-2009 Presidential Graduate Fellowships.
Ruth Brown received funds from the Graduate School in support of her research. She also received a Latin American Studies Summer Grant Travel to attend the Enkidu Conference in Mexico City and to conduct research on her dissertation topic: contemporary Mexican migration to the United States.
Krissie Butler was awarded a Latin American Studies Summer Grant Travel, which she is using to go to Cuba at the end of summer 2008 to begin her dissertation research on literary representations of Fidel Castro.
Brian M. Cole received a $3,000 research grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities for his dissertation project on ekphrasis and Spanish Avant-Garde prose.
Alice Driver received a Fellowship to attend the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, which took place on June 21-27, 2008 at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY.
Michelle Dumais received a $3,000 research grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities for her project on “Narrative Representations of Tourism in Spain, 1960-1975.”
Matthew Feinberg received a $3,000 research grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities for his project “Lavapiés as Twentieth-Century Urban Spectacle.”
Lee Kirvin was nominated for UK´s 2008-2009 Presidential Graduate Fellowships.
Kristie Bulleit Niemeier received a Dissertation Enhancement Award to conduct research in Madrid in May 2008 on the topic of eighteenth-century dueling.
Nadina Olmedo received a Latin American Studies Summer Grant Travel. This grant will allow her to travel to an international symposium on fantastic literature in Germany where she will present a paper on Gothic literature in September 2007.
Rebbecca Pittenger received a year-long Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship to conduct dissertation research and study at the Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo, Uruguay.