Nicholás Chávez (The University of New Mexico) is the 2025 Helmut Esau Award recipient for his paper “Spanish Conquistadors as God’s Chosen People: Metaphor, iconographic reference, and the framing of historical interpretation in Fray Angélico Chávez”. His work has been selected to receive the award after a review of all submissions received. This award is… Continue reading 2025 Helmut Esau Prize: Congratulations Nicholás!
Jonathan Pye (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is the 2024 Helmut Esau Award recipient for his paper British Latino: Investigating discourse-stylistic variables and the construction of persona within podcasting”. His work has been selected to receive the award after a review of all high-quality submissions received. This award is named in honor of Helmut Esau,… Continue reading 2024 Helmut Esau Prize: Congratulations Jonathan!
Sarah Lease (University of New Mexico) is the 2023 Helmut Esau Award recipient for her paper “A usage-based account of paregogic /e/ in 20th century New Mexican Spanish”. Her work has been selected to receive the award after a review of all high-quality submissions received. This award is named in honor of Helmut Esau, who… Continue reading 2023 Helmut Esau Prize: Congratulations Sarah!
Irina Lifszyc (UMASS), is the 2022 Helmut Esau Award recipient for her paper “Pasado simple vs. presente perfecto en dos zonas dialectales de Argentina”. Her work has been selected to receive the award after a review of all high-quality submissions received. This award is named in honor of Helmut Esau, who was active in the… Continue reading 2022 Helmut Esau Prize: Congratulations Irina!
Christian Puma-Ninacuri (UMASS), and Claudia Matachana (UMASS) and Daniela Narváez (UMASS), are the 2021 Helmut Esau Award recipients. Christian’s paper is titled “The Kichwa morpheme -ka in Ecuadorian Andean Spanish: An outcome of language contact”, and Claudia and Daniela’s paper is “Spanish Words you’ve been Saying Wrong: Language Ideologies and Standardization in Spanish in the… Continue reading 2021 Helmut Esau Prize: Congratulations Christian, and Claudia and Daniela!
