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New York, NY – 6 December 2023 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced its thirty-third annual Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.

LACSI is pleased to announce that Dr. Diana Graizbord, Assistant Professor of LACS and Sociology, was notified in December of 2022 that she has received a Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award!

Political unrest and dysfunction in Peru after another president impeached.

Peru’s government is now trying to regain balance after Pedro Castillo, its fifth president in six years, has been impeached.

Please check out this slideshow featured on UGA Research about the Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden which is run by our very own Paul Duncan!

NYTS: Much of the winners’ work feels urgent. Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer, investigates the scale and pathways of plastic pollution and is among the researchers who provided the first estimate of the amount of plastic waste entering the ocean annually (eight million metric tons).