Sally Perret

Sally Perret (’06 M.A.), Champaign, Ill. was named the first recipient of the Kibbee Prize from the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award will be given annually to the winner of a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the school. Sally is a Ph.D candidate in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. She will use the cash award to help finish and defend her dissertation, “The Production of Cultural Citizenship in Democratic Spain: National Literary Awards and the Politics of Identity (1977-2010).”