Undergraduate Student Recognition
Hauptman Medal for Excellence in Spanish
- Erin Carr
Hauptman Medal for Excellence in Portuguese
- Megan Radney
Outstanding Spanish Majors
- Arika Carey
- Kyle Fox
- Jacob Hoekzema
- Jeffrey Kunath
- Evelyn Oldham
- Sean Piontek
- Sienna Strong-Jones
- Francine Vásquez
Outstanding UF Online Students
- Andrea Cooper
- Rachel Carnicelli
- Sharilee Francis
- Christina Langford
- Honorable Mention: Dalton Smith
Outstanding Spanish as a Heritage Language Students
- Jennifer Jamison
- Loretta Morgan
- Honorable Mention: Heinz Luedeking, Rodrigo Tremura
Undergraduate Scholars Program
- Wen Jiang (Valdés Kroff)
Honor Societies
Phi Lambda Beta (Portuguese Honor Society)
- Veronika Suyupova
- Isabella Zuccaro
Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honor Society)
- Erin Carr
- Cameron Coakes
- Megan Colbeck
- Justin Guerra
- Andrew Kent
- Grace Anne King
- James Lanni, Jr.
- Halle Shade
Phi Beta Kappa (National Honor Society) electees
- Erin Carr
- Paul Corbilla
- Kristin Driver
- Enrique Gutierrez
- Madelyn Kloske
- Isabella Orgel
- Joseph Panara
- Megan Radney
- Kaley Settle
- Isabel Snow
- Megan Suarez
- Francine Vasquez
Graduate Student Recognition
Degrees Earned (*Anticipated by Summer 2021)
Master of Arts
- Alejandro Acero Ayuda
- Alexis Berles
- Crispin Beyogle
- Josephine Duncan
- Darian Hector
- Franklina Kabio-Danlebo
- Rachel Liedemann
- María Victoria Muñoz
- Victor Santos
- Noah Verboon
Doctor of Philosophy
- Lori Lye
- Paola Guerrero Rodríguez*
- Hamideh Mohammadi
- Melany Vergara Suárez*
ABD (“all but dissertation”)
- Tania Abella Fernández
- Laura Callahan
- Leire Echevarría Canal
- Marc Gandarillas
- Greity González Rivera
- Hernán Rosario
- Diana Velázquez-López
- Allen Zegarra
- Irene Zurita Moreno
Job Placements
- Paola Guerrero Rodríguez – Texas Tech University
- Darian Hector – Gwinnett County Schools
- Hamideh Mohammadi – Western Reserve Academy
Outstanding Graduate Students
- Linguistics: Marina Cuartero Marco
- Literature: Allen Zegarra
Research and Scholarship Awards
Internal (UF)
- Public Humanities Grant – Alejandro Acero Ayuda and Darian Hector
- CLAS Dissertation Fellowship – Paola Guerrero Rodríguez, Melany Vergara
- CLAS Travel Award – Paola Guerrero Rodríguez
- Delores Auzenne Dissertation Fellowship – Nancy Pinzón
- UF Diversity Enhancement Award – Daniela Núñez de Álvarez Stransky
- Supplemental Retention Scholarship – Hamideh Mohammadi
External
- CONACYT fellowship [Mexico] – Daniela Núñez de Álvarez Stransky
- Election to MLA Delegate Assembly (Southern Region Representative) – Greity González Rivera
Whitney Koonce Memorial Award
- Victor Santos
Teaching Awards
Recognition of those trained/teaching in other programs or classes
- Beginning Portuguese – Melany Vergara Suárez
- Spanish as a Heritage Language – Alejandro Acero Ayuda, Crispin Beyogle, Marina Cuartero Marco, Daniela Núñez de Álvarez Stransky, Diana Velázquez-López, Noah Verboon, Irene Zurita Moreno,
- What is the Good Life? – Alberto Fernández Diego
- Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics – Leire Echevarría Canal, Paola Guerrero Rodríguez, Irene Zurita Moreno
- Languages Across the Curriculum – Greity González Rivera, Hernán Rosario
- Latin American Civilization and Culture – Melany Vergara Suárez
- Spanish & Spanish American Dialectology – Hamideh Mohammadi
- Spanish Conversation – Diana Velázquez-López
- Spanish for Building Construction – Nancy Pinzón
SPS Cooperative Leadership in Teaching
- María Victoria Muñoz
- Melany Vergara Suárez
Graduate School Teaching Award
- Laura Callahan (Calvin A. VanderWerf Award)
- Leire Echevarría Canal