Jose Vasquez was awarded the Fulbright Garcia Robles Grant for 2020 by the US-Mexico Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (COMEXUS). He will be teaching in the Spring 2021 at Mexico’s Universidad de Guadalajara. Jose also received the Miami Dade College's Presidents Innovation Fund for his work on Miami Vernacular which was in part funded with an Orlando Ridout V Field work grant in 2018 and featured in VAN Fall 2019.