Dr. Galina Bakhtiarova

Honors and Awards

2011                Connecticut State University System-wide Teaching Award

2011                Arts & Sciences Curriculum Development Grant Recipient for a designing a new course
                                        on Surrealism in Spain and the Americas and revising two existing Spanish
                                         courses

2011, 2010,     CSU Faculty Research Grant Recipient for the project entitled “Spain and Opera: Myth,
 2008                                   Fantasy and Postmodernity”

2009                   Faculty Development Grant Recipient for research in Peru    

2008                  Faculty Development Grant Recipient for the participation in the Symposium Opera,
                                    Exoticism and Visual Culture: The Fin de Siècle and Its Legacy, London, September 2008

2008                 President’s Initiatives Fund Recipient for the Summer Study in Madrid 2008

2007                           2007                 CSU Faculty Research Grant Recipient for the completion of the manuscript Empires of the
                                     Habanera: Cuba in the Cultural imagination of Catalonia

2006                 Faculty Development Grant Recipient for the participation in the Spanish Civil War
                         Congress, Madrid, Fall 2006

2006                 Faculty Development Grant Recipient for the participation in ACTFL Oral Proficiency
                                      Interviewer training, Middlebury, VT, July 2006

2006                           2006                Arts & Sciences Curriculum Development Grant Recipient for a complete revision of Spanish
                                       program at WCSU

2006                 President’s Initiatives Fund Recipient for the Creation of the WestConn Study of Arts,
                                       Humanities and Politics in Madrid

2005                 Díaz-Ayala Cuban Music Collection Library Travel Grant-Award for research at the
                           libraries at Florida International University

2001                 Mellon Foundation Fellowship for the Study of Educational Technology at the Center
              for Educational Technology, Middlebury College, Vermont

2000                 Dissertation Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of
                                       Education and Culture and United States Universities

2000                 Del Amo Foundation Dissertation Research Grant

2000                 Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society

1999                 Del Amo Foundation Summer Grant for Study and Research in Spain