The fund was endowed by a generous gift from Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Small '63, P '97, and has been augmented by contributions from alumni, parents, faculty and friends of the department.
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Karina P. Lago Memorial Fund in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Karina P. Lago was born in Uruguay, and educated in her native country and in the United States. She graduated from Brown magna cum laude and with honors in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies in 1995. At graduation she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Honors Prize and the Emery Fellowship for Graduate Studies. Her honors thesis, entitled "To Punish or Not to Punish: Domestic Violence and the Criminal Justice in Brazil," received the Helen Terry Mac Leod Prize as the outstanding thesis focusing on women and gender.
Karina participated in the Brown-in-Brazil Program at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in the fall of 1993, and returned to Brazil in the summer of 1994 to work as an intern in the Political and Economic Office of the United States Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro. Karina was admired by her teachers for her intelligence, creativity and uncompromising honesty, and was highly respected by her peers in the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Program as well as in the Brown University Hispanic Community, for whom she was a role model. At the time of her untimely death on November 6, 1995, Karina was a graduate student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts.
The following students have received the prize for outstanding academic achievement in the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies concentration. In 1995, the award was renamed in memory of Karina Palmira Lago '95.
2014 - Lanna M. Leite
2013 - Sharon Feder
2012 - Joshua M. Marcotte
2011 - Joshua M. Marcotte and Brianna L. Medeiros
2009 - Gabriela G. Scarritt
2008 - Benjamin Patterson Brown
2005 - Eric Marlis Noble
2004 - Patrick Andrew Browne
2003 - Emily E. Witt
2002 - Robert Patrick Newcomb
2001 - Kate Ellen Gulbransen
2000 - Laurence Blakely
1999 - Elizabeth Domingues Matos and Adele Edelen Nelson
1998 - Monica Teixeira de Sousa
1997 - Leigh H. Scott and Martin S. Small
1995 - Karina P. Lago
1994 - Benjamin D. Goodman and Meredith M. Persily
1993 - Grace E. Mitchell
1992 - Cara S. Joseph
1991 - Adam D. Culbreath and Jacob C. Miller
1990 - Loral Patchen
1989 - Joshua Sens
1988 - Paul M. Zimmerman
1987 - Maureen E. Comfort and Ianna Raim
1986 - Andrew H. Talal
- Ms. Alisa Algava '05
- Ms. Sophia Beal, A.M. '08
- Mr. Benjamin P. Brown '08
- Ms. Manuela Duarte '75, A.M. '78
- Mr. Benjamin P. Goodman '94
- Ms. Cara Goodman A.M. '07
- Dr. Isabel Ferreira Gould AM '97, Ph.D. '04
- Dr. Marguerite Itamar Harrison Ph.D. '95
- Dr. Yi Liu A.M. '07, Ph.D.'09
- Ms. Ana Catarina Teixeira AM '09
- Dr. Alexandra Montague A.M. '04, Ph.D. '07
- Mrs. John T. Medeiros
- Mr. and Mrs. Foster Nelson P '99
- Dr. Robert Newcomb '02, A.M. '06, Ph.D. '08
- Mr. Rex Nielson A.M. '07
- Mr. and Mrs. Rexford T. Parker '74
- Mr. Oscar Perez
- Mr. Luiz Prazeres
- Mr. Guilherme Ribeiro A.M. '06
- Dr. Marilia Ribeiro A.M. '04, Ph.D. '08
- Ms. Rachel Rothenberg, A.M. '08
- Mr. & Mrs. John A. Scarritt '73, P '09
- Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Small '63, P '97
- Professor Thomas E. Skidmore
- Professor Patricia Isabel Sobral Ph.D. '97
- Professor Luiz Fernando Valente Ph.D. '83
- Professor Nelson H. Vieira
Contributions to the Karina Lago Memorial Fund in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies should be sent to Professor Nelson H. Vieira, Chair, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Box O, Brown University, RI 02912.