The HispaUSA Association grants the D. Luis Leal Award 2024 to Professor Manuel M. Martín Rodríguez
On September 22nd, 2023, the HispaUSA Association agreed to grant the D. Luis Leal Award in its sixth edition to Professor Manuel M. Martín Rodríguez in recognition of his academic work and artistic dissemination of the values and principles of the Hispanic communities in United States.
The selection committee was made up of Norma Cantú (Trinity University), Esperanza Cerdá (Universidad de Alcalá), Patricia Fra (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), María Herrera-Sobek (University of California Santa Barbara), Nicolas Kanelos (University of Houston), Francisco Lomelí (University of California Santa Barbara), and Tino Villanueva (Boston University).
The award in the form of a plaque will be presented to him during the XIII International Congress of Chicano Literature and Latino Studies to be held at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela from June 12 to 14, 2024.
The HispaUSA Association, in its mission to promote study and research in all areas related to Hispanic culture and society in the United States, and in recognition of the figure of Professor Mr. Luis Leal, decided to establish an award in 2012 in his name to recognize the social and academic work of an outstanding personality of Latin origin in the United States in the field of Culture, Arts and Humanities. The award is valid for two years.
This award has been granted in previous editions to Norma Cantú (2020), Francisco Lomelí (2018), Gary Francisco Keller (2016), María Herrera Sobeck (2014), and Nick Kanellos (2012).
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