Prof. Sandra Ruiz receives 2021 Conrad Humanities Scholar Award

Congratulations to Prof. Sandra Ruiz for being named a 2021 Conrad Humanities Scholar! The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years. Prof. Ruiz plans to use the award to continue her work on several book projects, including a book of poetry entitled “The Edge of Death,” and two theoretically focused books called “Grief-time: The Aesthetic Life” and “Minoritarian Pedagogy: Psychoanalytic Affections in the Space of Aesthetics.”

Read the full story here: https://las.illinois.edu/news/2021-07-29/college-las-names-conrad-humanities-scholars.