Dr. Adam W. Coon, Chapter Adviser at University of Minnesota, Morris, has his book The Serpent’s Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement published in May 2024 with SUNY Press.
Dr. Iana Konstantinova, Chapter Adviser at Southern Virginia University, received Professor of the Year Faculty Achievement Award in 2024.
Dr. Alain Lawo-Sukam, Chapter Adviser at Texas A&M University, received Texas A&M College of Arts and Science Faculty Excellence award in 2024.
Dr. Elizabeth Villalobos, Chapter Adviser at the University of Nevada, Reno, had her book Border Killers: Neoliberalism, Necropolitics, and Mexican Masculinity published by the University of Arizona Press in 2024). She also received he “2024 Regents’ Rising Researcher Award” from the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE).
Dr. Daniel Holcombe, Chapter Adviser of Georgia College & State University, has an edited volume co-edited with Frederick A. de Armas and entitled Bodies Beyond Labels: Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain, published by the University of Toronto Press in May 2024.
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Dr. Leonor Taiano, Chapter Adviser of Carson-Newman University, has enjoyed multiple publications in 2024: an article “De Guerreros y Enamorados: El Abencerraje y la Hermosa Jarifa en un Mundo de Contrastes” published Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos; a book chapter “The Law of War in Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez” in the book Climate Change and Trans-Atlantic Transformations (Escribana Books), and an co-edited volume with Wladimir Chávez and Gen Yamabe and entitled Finisterre II: Revisiting the Last Place on Earth Migrations in Spanish and Latin American Culture and Literature (Waxmann Verlag).
Dr. Noël Valis, Chapter Adviser of the Alpha Beta Beta Chapter at Yale University, was appointed Kingman Brewster, Jr. Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, at Yale, and elected to the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.
