{"id":3366,"date":"2019-04-12T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T20:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2025-04-30T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:07:35","slug":"institute-director-receives-calacs-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/2019\/institute-director-receives-calacs-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute Director Receives CALACS Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Institute Director Receives CALACS Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Cristina-Rojas1-copy-240x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Cristina-Rojas1-copy-240x150.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Cristina-Rojas1-copy-160x100.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Cristina-Rojas1-copy-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Cristina-Rojas1-copy-400x250.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Cristina-Rojas1-copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Cristina-Rojas1-copy-360x225.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Institute of Political Economy is pleased to congratulate <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/people\/cristina-rojas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Director Cristina Rojas<\/a>, who has been recognized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/can-latam.org\/about-calacs\">Canadian Association for Latin and Caribbean Studies<\/a> (CALACS) for her deep commitment and outstanding contributions to the Association. Cristina has been selected as the recipient of the Association&#8217;s 2019 Distinguished Fellow Award.&nbsp;CALACS confers this distinction to individual members who have made an outstanding contribution to the Association and whose actions have contributed to furthering its vision and mission.&nbsp;Cristina has shown a deep commitment to the Association, its progress and wellbeing, by co-chairing the CALACS Conference Organizing Committee in 2013 and serving as President of the Association at various critical periods. In addition to her professional contributions, Cristina&#8217;s has personally helped to welcome students from all origins and disciplines to CALACS, supporting an interdisciplinary, international community of academics, researchers, young scholars, NGO&#8217;s, Latin American and Caribbean communities and policy makers in Canada and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Distinguished Fellow Award will be conferred to Cristina Rojas in a special ceremony at the <a href=\"https:\/\/can-latam.org\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALACS 50th anniversary congress<\/a> in Toronto, May 10-12, 2019.&nbsp; The conference will feature a special panel in Cristina&#8217;s honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Institute of Political Economy is pleased to congratulate Director Cristina Rojas, who has been recognized by the Canadian Association for Latin and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) for her deep commitment and outstanding contributions to the Association. 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