Álvarez looks forward to immersing herself in a different culture with the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship and will attend W&L Law when she returns, with plans to become an immigration lawyer.
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Two Washington and Lee University graduates received scholarships from the National Leadership Honor Society to support graduate and professional study.
The screening will take place at 6 p.m. Oct. 16 in Stackhouse Theater.
Andrea Lepage examines how academic galleries can serve as transformative learning spaces.
Andrea Lepage will assist in developing a series of essays focused on Latinx artists.
The associate professor of sociology received an honorable mention citation for the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award.
The associate professor of Spanish shares the stories of undocumented youth held in detention centers and refugee camps in the United States and Mexico.
The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards of up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students who are Pell Grant recipients.
The Oct. 8 event is presented by Red Sky Performance and is part of the Lenfest Center’s Outreach & Engagement Series.
An authentic Indigenous dinner will accompany Laronde’s talk on Oct. 7 and is part of the Lenfest Center’s Outreach & Engagement Series.
Washington’s first indigenous State Poet Laureate will deliver a reading on Oct. 1 as part of the Lenfest Center’s Outreach & Engagement Series.
The public talk will take place in Kamen Gallery on Sept. 27 and is part of the Lenfest Center’s Outreach & Engagement Series.
The 2023-2024 academic year at W&L saw the proliferation of several new course offerings for students through a new faculty development initiative offered by the Office of Community-Based Learning (CBL).
Bosking has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Colombia.
The Chilean activist’s talk will be held Feb. 12 at 5 p.m.
The Spanish professor appears as a faculty expert in the film that debuted at the Virginia Film Festival last month.
Zoila Ponce de León’s chapter is titled “Health Care and the Public-Private Mix in Mexico, Chile, and Peru” and appears in the Latin American section of the publication.
Marcos Perez is an assistant professor of sociology.
The solo exhibition will run from April 24 to May 25 in Staniar Gallery inside Washington and Lee University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Baluarte will teach in the Refugee Law Clinic and assist in the development of clinical legal education more broadly at the Iberoamericana University.
The fourth edition of “Comparative Politics” is a collaboration between faculty in W&L’s Department of Politics and Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
For more than 20 years, ESOL volunteers have participated in language and literacy work in the Lexington-Rockbridge area and beyond.
Zoila Ponce de León recognized by the Journal for Latin American Studies.
The show will be on display in Wilson Hall’s Lykes Atrium in conjunction with Esteban Ramón Pérez’s solo exhibition “Distorted Myths,” which will be on view in the Staniar Gallery Oct. 10 through Nov. 2.
The Comunidad Latina Estudiantil has planned and organized numerous events in collaboration with the Office of Inclusion and Engagement.
Zoila Ponce de León will utilize the grant to study immigration and deportation in the U.S. and Brazil.
Lepage’s talk “Borderlands Arts Pedagogy” will be held on Sept. 28.
Ponce de Leon's paper "Women Want an Answer! Field Experiments on Elected Officials and Gender Bias" was featured in the Harvard Gendar Action Portal
The Instituto Cervantes invited Professor Mayock to Spain to speak at the inaugural event for the Centenary Celebration of Carmen Laforet in March 2022.
Cambridge University Press will publish Marcos Perez's book on Argentina's Unemployed Workers' Movement.
Approximately 70% of students participate in an abroad program during their time at W&L.
The book will prove invaluable in helping students gain a better understanding of the theory and practice of environmental and natural resource economics.
The novel “Ursula” is Brazil's first abolitionist novel and the first novel by an Afro-Brazilian woman.
Ponce de León's peer-reviewed journal article focuses on the impact of political parties on healthcare reform in Peru.
Professor Cristina Pinto-Bailey recently published an essay on Black Brazilian feminisms and translated four pieces by Afro-Brazilian writers.