Court­ney Crumpler

Three Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity seniors have been awarded the Henry Richard­son Labouisse ’26 Prize to spend one year pur­su­ing inter­na­tional civic engage­ment projects after grad­u­a­tion. The $30,000 prize will sup­port a joint ini­tia­tive by Shirley Gao and Raphael Frank­furter in Sierra Leone, and a project by Court­ney Crum­pler in Brazil.

The award to Gao and Frank­furter will aid their work to develop a mater­nal health coor­di­na­tion cen­ter in east­ern Sierra Leone. Crumpler’s prize will sup­port her efforts to bol­ster com­mu­nity orga­niz­ing in under­served com­mu­ni­ties in Rio de Janeiro in advance of the 2014 World Cup finals and 2016 Olympics there.

The Labouisse Prize enables grad­u­at­ing seniors to engage in a project that exem­pli­fies the life and work of Henry Richard­son Labouisse, a 1926 Prince­ton grad­u­ate who was a diplo­mat, inter­na­tional pub­lic ser­vant and cham­pion for the causes of inter­na­tional jus­tice and inter­na­tional devel­op­ment. The prize was estab­lished in 1984 by Labouisse’s daugh­ter and son-in-law, Anne and Mar­tin Peretz.

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Fer­nando Acosta-Rodriguez,
From “Ñ”

Dear PLAS friends,

I’d like to share with you the link to an arti­cle that appeared this week­end in Ñ, the cul­tural sup­ple­ment of the Argen­tine daily Clarín.  It’s titled “La memo­ria de la lit­er­atura lati­noamer­i­cana” and high­lights Fire­stone Library’s exten­sive col­lec­tion of archives, cor­re­spon­dence, man­u­scripts and other mate­ri­als by Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean authors and intellectuals. 

Also in the issue is a text by Rubén Gallo about Severo Sar­duy in Prince­ton, enti­tled “Un cubano en Prince­ton.”

For addi­tional infor­ma­tion about Latin Amer­i­can spe­cial col­lec­tions at Prince­ton, please visit http://libguides.princeton.edu/latinam_iberian_primary.

Fer­nando Acosta Rodriguez
Librar­ian for Latin Amer­i­can Stud­ies, Fire­stone Library
Prince­ton University