Emily Kuder (BAFLP Spanish 2007, MAFLP Spanish 2010), doctoral candidate in Spanish Linguistics, received the University of Madison, Wisconsin Ray Harris Hispanic Linguistics Award in May, 2016. According to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of the University of Madison, the award was created in memory of the late Professor Ray Harris, “dear colleague and esteemed Professor of Spanish linguistics in the department from 1993 to 2009. The original donors established the award in order to ‘recognize outstanding graduate students in or entering the MA or PhD program in Hispanic linguistics in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.'” The department sustains that “Emily has consistently shown academic excellence as both a student and a researcher in the department, clearly demonstrating the scholarly achievement that the Ray Harris Hispanic Linguistics Award seeks to honor.”