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The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona conferred an honorary degree to Professor Monica Heller from the University of Toronto  on February 28, 2023. The proposal was put forth by the Department of English and German Philology and it was supported by the Facultat de Filosofia i LLetres, the Facultat de Traducció i Interpretació and the Facultat de Ciències de l'Educació and defended by Professor Melissa G. Moyer.

The UAB will award Canadian anthropologist Monica Heller, lecturer at the University of Toronto, an honorary doctorate after being proposed for the award by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. According to the UAB Department of English and German Studies, she is one of "today's most renowned academic figures" in the areas of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The decision to award this honorary doctorate was recently passed by the UAB Governing Council and the awards ceremony will be held soon.