Javier Ruiz-Castillo on Hugo F. Sonnenschein

Abstract

The connection between Hugo and Spain started early, when he met a group of outstanding Catalan graduate students at the University of Minnesota in the early 1970s. The bunch of Spanish graduate students at Northwestern University were next in line, around 1975. Fortunately for us, he arrived in Evanston interested in anything Spanish and intrigued by the experience of those foreigners from the 1960s trying to make it in the 1970s as Ph.D.’s in American Universities. Eventu- ally, the four of us at that time — Jordi Andreu, Salvador Barbera, Isabel Fradera, and myself — wrote our dissertations with his help. This was only the beginning. It suffices to check the national origins of his graduate students to appreciate how truly cosmopolitan Hugo’s career as an adviser has been.