Classics

Erika Valdivieso began her doctoral work at Brown in 2014 with a Presidential Fellowship.  She was a visiting student at the University of Salamanca and the University of Cambridge. After holding the J. M. Stuart Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, she spent a summer as a visiting researcher at the Facultad de Estudios Clásicos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México) and at the Biblioteca Brasiliana (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil). Her dissertation, Virgilian Imitatio in Colonial Latin America, received the Joukowsky Outstanding Dissertation Prize for the Humanities. Erika will join the Department of Classics at Princeton University as a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

Achievements

• Presidential Fellowship (2014-2017)
• Brown in the World Travel Grant, Cogut Institute for the Humanities (2017)
• J.M. Stuart Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library (2018-2019)
• Global Mobility Fellowship (2019)
• Joukowsky Outstanding Dissertation Prize (2020)