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!

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Award Type
2017

Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship, Society of Biblical Literature

Courtney Friesen
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2017

Tao-Chung Ted Yao Memorial Award

Yi Wang
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2017

COH Distinguished Teaching Award

Ana Cornide
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2017

Hangzhou Buddhist Culture Project: “The Hangzhou Region and the Chinese Creation of East Asian Buddhism”

Albert Welter
East Asian Studies
Grants
2017

International conference Grants, “Creating the World of Chan/ Sŏn /Zen: Chinese Chan Buddhism and its Spread throughout East Asia”

Albert Welter
East Asian Studies
Grants
2017

Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions for outstanding services to German and Medieval Studies

Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2017

University of Arizona Academic Leadership - Selected as one of twenty University of Arizona Faculty or Administrator, administrators and staff from a pool of more than 100 for leadership potential for nine-month training program.

Melissa Fitch
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2017

University Distinguished Professor

Melissa Fitch
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2017

National Science Foundation Grants “A Novel Architecture for Secure, Energy-Efficient Community-Edge-Clouds with Application in Harlem”

Bryan Carter
Center for Digital Humanities
Grants
2017

Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Distinguished Professorship

Hai Ren
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2016

Michael Delhoyde Award for Distinguished Contributions in Editing, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2016

Margaret M. Briehl and Dennis T. Ray Five Star Faculty or Administrator Award

Anders Thomas Peterson
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2016

COH Distinguished Teaching Award

Aileen Feng
French and Italian
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2016

University of Arizona Commission on the Status of Women Mini Grant

Andrea Holm
Writing Skills Improvement Program
Grants
Spring 2016

Provostís Author Support Fund

Aileen Feng
French and Italian
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2016

Medieval Academy of America Book Subvention Award

Aileen Feng
French and Italian
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Summer 2016

Institute of Semiotics and Media Studies Research Fellow, Sichuan University, China

Hai Ren
East Asian Studies
Fellowships
2016

Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise

Courtney Friesen
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2016

Richard Ruiz Diversity Leadership Faculty or Administrator Award

Ana Cornide
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2016

NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising, Certificate of Merit (Faculty or Administrator Advising Category)

Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2016

Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Award

Melissa Fitch
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2016

Horner Special Project Fellowships

Sarah Kortemeier
Poetry Center
Fellowships
2016

Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Distinguished Professorship

Hai Ren
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2016

Villa I Tatti, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fellow, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

Aileen Feng
French and Italian
Fellowships
2016

Whiting Public Engagement

Jamie Fatas
Spanish and Portuguese
Fellowships
Spring 2015

Excellence in Academic Advising Faculty or Administrator Advisory Award

Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2015

University of Arizona Award for Excellence

Sumayya KR Granger
Center for English as a Second Language
Honors, Prizes, Awards
News Article
Spring 2015

University of Arizona Award for Excellence

Isela J Gonzales-Cook
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2015

ACTFL-NFMLTA/MLJ Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Foreign Language Education

Liudmila Klimanova
Russian and Slavic Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2015

1885 Society Distinguished Scholar Award

Melissa Fitch
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards