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Awards & Honors

Hispanic Studies Awards

McCrary- Keller Award for Outstanding Second through Fourth Year Graduate Student

**Prior to 2022-2023 the award was named the McCrary Award for Outstanding Second Year Graduate Student
Paula Ruiz Santamaría, 2021-2022
Andrew Sharpe, 2020-2021
Kelly Ferguson, 2019-2020
Morgan Stewart, 2018-2019
Brittany Frodge, 2017-2018
 

Whayne Award for Graduate Student Research Paper 

**Prior to 2022-2023 the award was named the Rueda-Keller Professorship Graduate Student Research Paper Award
Álvaro Cuéllar, 2021-2022
Álvaro Cuéllar, 2019-2020
Jacob Neely, 2018-2019
Silvia Encinas, 2017-2018
 

Whayne Award for Graduate Student Service

**Prior to 2022-2023 the award was named the Award for Graduate Service to the Hispanic Studies Department
David Cortés Ferrández, Jesús Ponte Bernal, & Jakob Turner, 2021-2022
Sharrah Lane, 2019-2020
Kacie Gastanaga, Sharrah Lane, Marlee McCloud, 2018-2019
Ana Alvarez Guillen, Raymond Jones, 2017-2018
 

Whayne Award for Graduate Student Teaching 

**Prior to 2022-2023 the was was named the Second-Year TA Teaching Award
Danny Batten & Jesús Ponte Bernal, 2021-2022
Andrew Sharpe, 2020-2021
David Cortés, Kelly Ferguson, Félix Rodríguez, 2019-2020
Kacie Gastanaga, 2018-2019
Yvette Martínez, 2017-2018
María Schroeder, 2016-2017
David Delgado, 2015-2016
Eva Morón, 2014-2015
Joshua Martin, 2013-2014
Meagan O'Neil, 2012-2013
María López Soriano, 2011-2012
Sarah Finley, 2010-2011
Grace Rhenals, 2009-2010
Brian Cole, 2007-2008
 

 

College of Arts & Sciences Awards

Arts & Sciences Outstanding TA Award

 
David Cortés Ferrández, 2021-2022
Kelly Ferguson, 2020-2021
Juan Fernández Cantero, 2018-2019 (And Inclusive Pedagogies Award, 2018-2019)
María Schroeder, 2017-2018
David Delgado, 2016-2017
Abraham Prades-Mengíbar, 2015-2016
Adriana Rivera, 2014-2015
Joshua Martin, 2013-2014
Ana Pociello-Sampriz, 2012-2013
Sarah Finley, 2011-2012
Grace Rhenals, 2010-2011
Osvaldo di Paolo, 2008-2009
Krissie Butler, 2007-2008
 

Wimberly C. Royster Graduate Excellence Awards in Arts and Sciences

 
Kacie Gastañaga, 2017-2018
Kiersty Lemon, 2015-2016
 
 

T. Marshall Hahn Graduate Fellowship

 
Jeffrey Zamostny, 2007-2009
 
 

Arts & Sciences Dean's Competitive Fellowship (Dissertation Completion)

 
Morgan Stewart, 2021-2022
Sharrah Lane, 2019-2020

 

 

Graduate School Awards

Lyman T. Johnson Diversity Fellowship

https://gradschool.uky.edu/fellowships#Lyman

Ana Sánchez Sánchez, 2022-2025

 

Myrle E. and Verle D. Nietzel Visiting Distinguished Faculty Program

https://gradschool.uky.edu/visiting-distinguished-faculty-program

Patricia María Gamboa, "Álvaro Cunqueiro: la existencia fabulada" (Dir. Ana Rueda)

Visiting Faculty: Dr. Rexina R. Vega, Universidade de Vigo (2022)

 

Kevin Sedeño Guillén, "Modernidades contra-natura: crítica ilustrada, prensa periódica y cultura manuscrita en el siglo XVIII americano" (Dir. Enrico Santí)

Visiting Faculty: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin (2017)

 

Woman's Club Endowed Fellowship

https://ukygrad.academicworks.com/opportunities/227

Marlee McCloud, 2020-2021

 

Association of Emeriti Faculty Endowed Fellowship

https://gradschool.uky.edu/fellowships#Emeriti

Kelly Ferguson, 2022-2023

 

 

Provost Awards

Provost Outstanding Teaching Awards

https://www.uky.edu/ofa/awards-honors

Juan Fernández Cantero, 2019-2020
Abraham Prades-Mengíbar, 2018-2019
Francesco Masala, 2015-2016
Grace Martin (Rhenals), 2012-2013
Mahan Ellison, 2011-2012
Stephanie Saunders, 2006-2007
 
 
 

International Center Awards

Viji Jaganathan Scholarship for Cross-Cultural Understanding

Juan Fernandez Cantero, 2018-2019