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James Logan is an Academic Year 2023-2024 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. James is pursuing a major in Political Science and two minors, one in Mathematics, and one in Portuguese.…
Viana Rodrigues is an Academic Year 2023-2024 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Viana is pursuing a major in Public Health, a minor in Portuguese, and is currently on the Pre-Dental…
Elijah Fidder is an Academic Year 2023-2024 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Elijah is pursuing a major in Political Science, International Studies (International Relations and…
Thomas Jones is an Academic Year 2023-2024 graduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Thomas is pursuing an MA in Latin American Studies and an MA in Teaching and Learning, Foreign, Second, and…
Anais Fernandez Castro is an Academic Year 2023-2024 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Quechua. Anais is pursuing a Dual Degree in Political Science: Political Analysis and Spanish: Hispanic…
Scott Hardy, extension educator, Ohio Sea Grant College Program, was awarded a 2023-2024 Fulbright U.S. Specialist grant to the Universidad de Atacama (UDA) in Chile to share his expertise in…
Arón Olegnowicz is an Academic Year 2023-2024 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Arón is pursuing two majors, one in Political Science, and one in Psychology, as well as a minor in…
Chrissy Fite is an Academic Year 2023-2024 graduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Chrissy is pursuing a Master of Public Administration and a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies
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The Susan Pratt Munthe Graduate Scholarship for Study on Latin America is now taking applications!
Purpose:
Established May 20, 2021, with gifts from Susan Pratt…
Four CLAS affiliates have received the Faculty, Research, Teaching and Outreach Grant, supported by the Office of International Affairs and the Area Studies Centers. This grant…
With Title VI funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for Latin American Studies is supporting seven undergraduate students and one graduate student with Foreign Language and…
Each semester the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the Kawsay Ukhunchay: Andean & Amazonian Indigenous Art & Cultural Artifacts Research Collection is…
The Center for Latin American Studies is delighted to announce that it has been awarded $619,704 in U.S. Department of Education Comprehensive National Resource Center funding for the remaining…
The Center for Latin American Studies is proud to announce the results of its Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship competition for Summer 2023 and Academic Year 2023-24.
In…
Each semester the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the Kawsay Ukhunchay: Andean & Amazonian Indigenous Art & Cultural Artifacts Research Collection is…
Many of us are familiar with the plight of Venezuelan refugees or remember the polemic 2016 impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. Some of us may have even considered how these events…
Anais Fernandez is an Academic Year 2022-2023 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Quechua at OSU. Anais was also a FLAS fellow in Summer 2022, when she studied intermediate-advanced Quechua in Peru…
Emily Riley Gomez is an Academic Year 2022-2023 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Emily is majoring in Biology and is part of the Pre-Health and Pre-Med programs.
"I was born…
Orianna McDavid is an Academic Year 2022-2023 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Orianna is pursuing a major in English with a minor in Portuguese and was also a FLAS fellow in…
Sara Court is an Academic Year 2022-2023 graduate FLAS fellow studying Quechua at OSU. Sara was also a FLAS fellow in Summer 2022, when she first began studying Quechua in Peru.
Sara is a…
Viana Rodrigues is an Academic Year 2022-2023 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Viana is pursuing a major in Public Health with a minor in Portuguese.
"I am studying Portuguese…
Cullen Roth is an Academic Year 2022-2023 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Cullen is pursuing a double-major in Foreign Language Education and Spanish and was also a FLAS fellow in…
The Center for Latin American Studies is excited to announce that it has been awarded $1,154,640 in Title VI funding from the U.S. Department of Education, through its Foreign Language and Area…
With support from its US Department of Education Title VI grant, the Center for Latin American Studies will be supporting two undergraduate students and two graduate students with Foreign Language…
Each semester the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the Kawsay Ukhunchay: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection…
Each semester the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the newly renamed Kawsay Ukhunchay: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts…
Professor Matthew M. Hollander of Marion Technical College has published an Open Educational Resource textbook on racial and ethnic diversity, with support from a CLAS Community College/Minority…
With support from its US Department of Education Title VI grant, the Center for Latin American Studies is supporting eleven undergraduate students and six graduate students with Foreign Language…
With support from its US Department of Education Title VI grant, the Center for Latin American Studies supported three undergraduate students and three graduate students with Foreign Language and…
The 2021 Winners of the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature have been announced!
This year’s award goes to Digging for Words: José Alberto…
Each year the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection is recognized by way of the Whitten…
Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Latin American Studies librarian at Ohio State Libraries, was recently named one of the 2021 class of Columbus Business First’s 40 Under 40. The Columbus Business…
The Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Awards, Interdisciplinary Network are pre-arranged affiliations to host exceptional scholars who conduct research relevant to any of five…
The Council of Graduate Students (CGS), in partnership with the Office of Outreach and Engagement, Office of Student Life, Office of Research, and Ohio State University Extension (OSUE) is pleased…
The Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellows in Latin American Studies are intended to foster the professional development of gifted scholars and specialists in media to enrich the…
The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) calls for nominations for its ninth annual “CLASP Junior Faculty Teaching Award.” The award recognizes excellence in…
Lemann Visiting Public Policy Fellowship
The Columbia University Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies (LCBS) is seeking applicants for the Lemann Visiting Public Policy…
Sixty-four recipients of the prestigious Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships were recognized on November 16 with virtual congratulatory messages from Ohio State leadership and…
The Center for Latin American Studies is now accepting applications for its Summer 2021 and Academic Year 2021-2022 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Competitions. The deadline…
Nadia El-Yousseph is a 2020-2021 FLAS fellow studying Portuguese.
"I’m learning Portuguese to help increase my language and cultural competency to enable me to assess speech and language as…
Gabriel Zeballos is a 2020-2021 FLAS fellow studying Quechua.
"I am learning Quechua in order to be able to communicate with the native people that live in the Andes of South America and…
The East Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Slavic and East European Studies have awarded more than $1.5 million in student support this year in the form of 64…
Applications are now being accepted for the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program for intensive language study abroad in summer 2021. For more information and to…
Jaret Waters is a 2020-2021 FLAS fellow studying Portuguese.
"After having studied Spanish for several years, I realized that, despite having learned so much about Latin America, I knew…
Professors Inés Valdez and Benjamin McKean of the Department of Political Science have been selected as the recipients of a 2019…
Glenn Martinez, CLAS faculty affiliate and Director of the Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, has received a seed grant from OSU’s Office of Research dedicated to…
Please join us in congratulating Tania Espinales Correa for receiving the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Award for Teaching Excellence. Each year, the award…
Dr. Simone Drake, chair of the Department of African American and African Studies and CLAS faculty affiliate, is the 2020 Recipient of the Larry M. Lewellen Award for Distinguished Service. The…
Lucia Costigan, professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and CLAS faculty affiliate, was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Mexico.
Costigan will be researching “The…
David Hedgecoth, assistant professor in the School of Music, has been awarded a prestigious 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Brazil during May – September 2021.
Hedgecoth will…
The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) calls for nominations for its eighth annual “CLASP Junior Faculty Teaching Award”. The award recognizes…
The Center for Latin American Studies is accepting applications from graduate and professional students for Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants. These grants provide students with funds for…
The Office of International Affairs, the Office of Research, the Graduate School, the Office of Student Academic Success and the Global Gateways are sponsoring a grant competition with separate…
Elvia Andia Grágeda has just been awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura of Bolivia in the category of Lengua Originaria. Each year, the Bolivian Ministry of…
Justin Pinta’s project “Minority Language Resilience in Corrientes, Argentina” has been selected for funding under the 2019 U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research…
CLAS has awarded 19 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for the 2019-2020 Academic Year, representing $407,124 of funding for students at The Ohio State University. Ten graduate and…
Congratulations to the 2018-19 SPPO Associated Faculty Award winners, Patricia Stuessey and Elvia Andía Grágeda, for Excellence in Second Language Teaching & Learning! The award recognizes an…
CLAS would like to congratulate its 2018-2019 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship cohort on a successful year. Congratulations to our graduate fellows, Lisa Dieckman (Latin American Studies)…
Over the past 6 years, the National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language has been holding a conference to share pedagogical and critical approaches to the study and teaching of Spanish as a…
The Tinker Foundation’s Field Research Grants Program is designed to provide budding scholars with a first-hand experience of their region of study, regardless of academic discipline. The grants…
The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) calls for nominations for its seventh annual “CLASP Teaching Award for Junior Faculty.” The award recognizes excellence in teaching Latin…
During the summer of 2018, the Tinker Foundation funds enabled Matthew Spearly to interview political, economy, and social assistance experts in Argentina to identify and understand recent social…