Emmanuel David's August 2018 TSQ article “Transgender Archipelagos” recently received the Society for Queer Asian Studies Best Article Award. The SQAS prize committee wrote that they "unanimously agreed that 'Transgender Archipelagos' demonstrates what transgender studies and area studies can do for each other," and noted that "the essay’s framing archipelagic perspective is particularly productive and promising in the many iterations of ‘trans’ that the essay engages - transnational, transatlantic, transpacific, transindigenous, and transhemispheric."

Alison Jaggar gave the annual Dewey lecture at the Central Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association in February, traditionally given by a prominent and senior philosopher and published each year in the Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. Jaggar's article, “’Saving Amina?’ Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue,” was selected by the journal, Ethics and International Affairs as one of the 100 best articles in its 100 years of publishing.

Celeste Montoya has received the the Western Political Science Association Award for Best Paper in Latino/a Politics for her paper "De Guerreras y Puentes: Legacies of Chicana Feminism." Her co-authored article "Intersectionality and the Politics of Knowledge Production" was recognized as the most read article for the European Journal of Politics and Gender in 2018. She is also the recipient of a CARTSS Scholar Grant for her new project on Latina/x Activism. Dr. Montoya traveled to the University of Florida this spring to give a talk "The Consequences of Co-option: Rising Populism and the EU Efforts to Combat Gender Violence." She also served on the Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Academics (IDEA) Plan authoring and revision committee. She presented a lecture "The Politics of Immigrant Inclusion" in early April at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, in connection with their current exhibition Don Coen: The Migrant Series which runs through May 27.

Kristie Soares authored the book chapter “Latin Lovers, Chismosas, and Gendered Discourses of Power: The Role of the Subjective Narrator in Jane the Virgin.” which is forthcoming in Decolonizing Latinx Masculinity, edited by Arturo Aldama and Frederick Aldama. Her book review “A Future that Rests with the Fate of the Oppressed: A Review of Rita Indiana’s Tentacle” was published in the Los Angeles Review of Books in February.