The Latin American and Latino Studies Institute grants two awards annually to students of exceptional talent and promise: the Angelo Rodríguez Award  and the Bernardo Vega-Rigoberta Menchú-Tum Award.

The Angelo Rodríguez Research Award

This award was initially established in 1990 by Professor Clara Rodríguez and was financed by royalties from her book The Puerto Rican Struggle: Essays on Survival in the United States. It provides for an annual $500 prize for original and significant work in the field of Latin American and Latino Studies. All Fordham students are eligible. Faculty nominate students based on the production of superior in-class work during the academic year.

The Rodríguez Award also received the support of dedicated friends and alumni of Fordham's Latin American and Latino Studies program, as well as others:

If you would like to make a donation, please make checks payable to:

The Angelo Rodríguez Award
Fordham University
Office of Development and University Relations
113 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023-7484
Attn: Catherine Buescher, Director of Development, Arts and Sciences

Deadline for nominations and submission of work: 3 May 2007

The Bernardo Vega - Rigoberta Menchú-Tum Award

Named for apioneering Puerto Rican worker-intellectual and a Nobel Prize winning author, the award is given annually to the graduating senior who has, in the judgement of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, demonstrated excellence in the study of Latin American and Latino culture.



2006 Prize Winners:

Angelo Rodríguez Award

First Place Creative Essay

Daniel Fairfax '06, "Memorias de Loisaida: 'Gentrification y orgullo boricua," written for Dr. Cruz-Malavé's class, "New York in Latino Literature."