Image: First, please join us in welcoming new LACS faculty member, Dr. Bruno Sales, as the Assistant Director of the Portuguese Flagship Program. Dr. Sales’ wealth of experience and expertise in Portuguese language instruction are a tremendous asset to Flagship students and to LACSI. We’re thrilled to have him on board! We’re equally thrilled to congratulate our superb faculty on their exceptional contributions to research, teaching, and outreach related to Latin America and the Caribbean. Despite unprecedented challenges, over the past year UGA LACS faculty have continued their vital work in- and outside the classroom, publishing important works in their respective fields and receiving prestigious research and teaching awards. Join us in celebrating their stellar accomplishments: Dr. Cassia Roth was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for research on her second book, Birthing Abolition: Enslaved Women, Reproduction, and the Gradual End of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Dr. Diana Graizbord was selected as a 2020-2021 Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. Dr. Eric Morales-Franceschini's work, Autopsy of a Fall, was selected by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for the 2020 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize. Dr. Jorge Derpic was awarded the Sandy Beaver Teaching Award. Dr. Pablo Lapegna, currently a Study in a Second Discipline Fellow, had his book, Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina (originally published by Oxford University Press), translated to Spanish under the title La Argentina Transgénica: De la Resistencia a la Adaptación, una Etnografía de las Poblaciones Campesinas (Siglo XXI Editores) The UGA Career Center recognized LACSI Associate Director Paul Duncan for his outstanding contributions to the career development of UGA LACS graduates. Dr. Frans Weiser was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor after successfully completing his tenure review.
