Awards & Grants

College of Humanities faculty, staff, and students have won a wide array of awards, honors, fellowships and commendations.

Toni Lee Alexander and Tyler Meier received Awards for Excellence in honor of their outstanding efforts for the College of Humanities.

A message from our Dean:

Given the College of Humanities' high national ranking, it is no surprise that its faculty, staff, and students are among the University of Arizona's most decorated award winners. From their international translation prizes and federally funded research projects, to their prestigious teaching awards and national lifetime achievement honors, the people who comprise the College of Humanities are routinely recognized for the outstanding work they do in their disciplines, for the campus, and throughout the world. The list below is only a representative sample of the accolades COH's teachers, researchers, students, and leaders have earned recently, but it demonstrates well the level of engagement, commitment, and creativity that COH people bring to all of their projects. Straight to the goal! 

– Dean A-P Durand

 

If you know a person from our COH faculty, staff, or students who has won an award that is not listed below, tell us about it here!

Award Type

Phyllis Taoua

2021
France-Arizona Institute for Global Grand Challenges
French and Italian
Grants

Poetry Center

Spring 2024
Borchard Center on Literary Arts Sponsored Poetry and Prose Reading
Poetry Center
Grants
Spring 2024
Flinn Foundation Creative Communities Grant
Poetry Center
Grants
Fall 2023
Borchard Center on the Literary Arts Grant
Poetry Center
Grants
Fall 2023
Poetry Center/Alley Cat Mural Project
Poetry Center
Grants

Rae Erin Dachille

Spring 2024
2023, Finalist for American Academy of Religionís Award for Excellence in Textual Studies
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2024
2023, Finalist for American Academy of Religionís Best First Book in the History of Religions
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2024
CEAS Faculty Travel Grant
Religious Studies and Classics
Grants
Spring 2022
Provost Author Support Award
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Summer 2022
NEH Summer Institute, The Imagination and Imaginal Worlds in the Mirror of Buddhism
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Ramón César Méndez Villanueva

Spring 2023
College of Humanities Outstanding Graduate Assistant in Teaching Award
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Richard A Edmiston

Spring 2023
University of Arizona Award for Excellence
Humanities Administration
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Robert Côté

2019
University of Arizona Global Education Award
Writing Skills Improvement Program
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Robert Groves

2021
Classical Association of the Middle West and South Grants
Religious Studies and Classics
Grants
2021
Society for Classical Studies Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at College Level
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2021
University of Arizona Office of Digital Learning Technology Innovations in Digital Learning Seed Grants
Religious Studies and Classics
Grants

Robert Stephan

Spring 2024
The University of Arizona Foundation Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2021
Gerald J. Swanson Prize for Teaching Excellence
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2021
Margaret M. Briehl and Dennis T. Ray Five Star Faculty Award
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2020
COH Distinguished Teaching Award
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2019
COH Distinguished Undergraduate Advising/Mentoring Award
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Robert Stephen

2021
University of Arizona Five Star Faculty or Administrator Award
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2020
COH Distinguished Teaching Award
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2019
COH Distinguished Undergraduate Advising/Mentoring Award
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Romy Cerón Canché

Spring 2023
Graduate Student Peer Mentor Award
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Romy Yanahí Cerón Canché

Spring 2022
Spanish and Portuguese Research Fellowship
Spanish and Portuguese
Fellowships

Sarah Kortemeier

Fall 2021
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Public Knowledge Grants
Poetry Center
Grants
2019
Felix Pollak Prize, awarded by the University of Wisconsin Press
Poetry Center
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2019
Leadership Institute Fellow: American Library Association
Poetry Center
Fellowships
2019
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
Poetry Center
Grants