Dissertation Award

Updated 2012 Conference Program Highlights

15 October 2012

The Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA), will hold its 10th Biennial, 20th Anniversary research conference this coming October 24–28, 2012, at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). This year’s conference theme is “Boricuas and Other Border Crossers: Of Diaspora and Latinidades,” You can download a PDF copy of the conference’s Final [...]

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2010 PRSA Dissertation Award Winner

14 April 2011

Radost A. Rangelova, “House, Factory, Beauty Salon, Brothel: Space, Gender, and Sexuality in Puerto Rican Literature and Film.” (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2009). Editor’s Note: The following is the citation read at the PRSA awards ceremony that was part of the 9th Biennial Conference, held in Hartford, CT, on [...]

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2012 PRSA Dissertation Award Competition

14 April 2011

UPDATE POSTED ON March 27, 2012. Please notice the change in the dates indicated below. We are extending both. Call for Nominations: 2012 PRSA DISSERTATION AWARD The Puerto Rican Studies Association is once again pleased to open its Dissertation Award Competition, the winner of which will be publicly announced at our October 24-28, 2012 Conference [...]

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March 2011 PRSA Presidential Message

14 April 2011

A Message from Roberto Márquez President, Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) March 14, 2011 I hope that, after the success of our 9th Biennial Conference in Hartford recently concluded, you have had an equally happy beginning to the New Year and are enjoying a pleasant and productive new semester. Let me begin this first of [...]

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2010 Conference Report

14 April 2011

9th Biennial Conference Puerto Rican Studies Association 21-24 October, 2010 Hartford, Connecticut Sponsored by: The University of Connecticut Trinity College POST-CONFERENCE REPORT The Puerto Rican Studies Association held its 9th Biennial Conference in the Marriott Hartford Downtown, Connecticut, between October 21 and 23, 2010. This year’s conference theme, Cuerpos vigilados y castigados: Resistance and Empowerment [...]

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