News Durán wins McNair Prize

​Art History major Omar Durán won first prize in the Humanities category of the National McNair Scholars Research Competition with his entry "Observing Invisible Corpses: Gender and Violence in Teresa Margolles's 'Embroidered Fabric,'" a study of feminicide in Guatemala through a particular work of the Mexican performance artist Teresa Margolles.  The project grew out of a summer project last year under the supervision of Professor Mónica Domínguez Torres. For a description of the McNair Scholars Program and for the other University of Delaware winners, see: http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2014/oct/mcnair-research-102413.html​