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
Summer 2024

National Endowment for the Humanities: Awards for Faculty

Peter Ecke
German Studies
Fellowships
News Article
Summer 2024

French Republic's Palmes Académiques at the rank of Officer

Alain-Philippe Durand
Humanities Administration
Honors, Prizes, Awards
News Article
Fall 2023

Guggenheim Fellowship

Jiang Wu
East Asian Studies
Fellowships
Fall 2023

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL (2023-2024)

Aileen Feng
French and Italian
Fellowships
Fall 2023

Elected President of the Association for French Language Studies (AFLS)

Dalila Ayoun
French and Italian
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2023

Provost Award for Innovation in Teaching

Kristy Slominski
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2023

Graduate College Award: Excellence in Graduate Teaching Mentoring Award

Ana Carvalho
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2023

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant: Bilingual Voices in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Phase 2: Preserving, Expanding & Elaborating Sociolinguistic Collections

Ana Carvalho
Spanish and Portuguese
Grants
News Article
Fall 2023

International Phonetic Association (IPA) Student Research Award

Hadley Forst
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2023

Borchard Center on the Literary Arts Grant

Poetry Center
Poetry Center
Grants
Fall 2023

Poetry Center/Alley Cat Mural Project

Poetry Center
Poetry Center
Grants
Fall 2023

US Department of Education Title V Grant: Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program

Ana Cornide
Spanish and Portuguese
Grants
News Article
Fall 2023

Chatfield Outstanding Tenured Researcher Award

Miquel Simonet
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2023

Joint winner of The Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize: Literatures written in languages other than English for his book "Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World"

Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
News Article
Fall 2023

Hispanic American Historical Review Best Book Review Prize

Faith S Harden
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
News Article
Fall 2023

The Chatfield Impact Award

Harris Kornstein
Public and Applied Humanties
Honors, Prizes, Awards
News Article
Fall 2023

Joseph and Mary Cacioppo Foundation Grant for the production of a documentary archaeological film on Life on the Tiber (grant managed by the School of Anthropology)

David Soren
Religious Studies and Classics
Grants
Fall 2023

Joseph and Mary Cacioppo Foundation Grant to continue archaeological work at the villa and infant burial site of Poggio Gramignano in Umbria (grant managed by the School of Anthropology)

David Soren
Religious Studies and Classics
Grants
Fall 2023

Quadro Economico, Regione di Umbria Grant to construct protection for the archaeological site at Poggio Gramignano; awarded in conjunction with the Comune or Mayor’s Office of Lugnano in Teverina (grant managed by the School of Anthropology)

David Soren
Religious Studies and Classics
Grants
Fall 2023

Cultivating Early Career Networks Between Global Asias and Japanese Studies Program

Kimberly Hassel
East Asian Studies
Fellowships
Fall 2023

Chatfield Outstanding Untenured Researcher Award

Sunyoung Yang
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
News Article
Fall 2023

Chatfield Award for Anti-Racist Research, Teaching, or Service

Brett Esaki
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
News Article
Fall 2023

Highly Ranked Scholar - Lifetime: ScholarGPS

Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
News Article
Spring 2023

Best First Book Prize for "Love for Sale: Representing prostitution in Imperial Russia", American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

Colleen Lucey
Russian and Slavic Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2023

National Endowment for the Humanities Initiatives

Letizia Bellocchio
French and Italian
Grants
Spring 2023

National Endowment for the Humanities Initiatives

Borbala Gaspar
French and Italian
Grants
Spring 2023

National Endowment for the Humanities Initiatives

Beppe Cavatorta
French and Italian
Grants
Spring 2023

Outstanding Teaching Through the Pandemic, Certificate of Recognition, Pearson Publisher

Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2023

Valentin and Evgenia Dunkel Award for Russian and Slavic Studies

Diana Avdeeva
Russian and Slavic Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2023

Alexander and Mary Tsien Dunkel Award for Russian and Slavic Studies

Diana Avdeeva
Russian and Slavic Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards