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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Spring 2023

Book Award for “Street Scriptures,” Harry Shaw Award for Outstanding Work in African American Popular Cultural Studies, from the Popular Culture Association

Alejandro Nava

Religious Studies and Classics

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

University of Arizona Mentoring Future Scholars Award

Lillian Gorman

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

National Endowment for the Humanities Initiatives

Letizia Bellocchio

French and Italian

Grants

Spring 2023

College of Humanities Distinguished Advising/Mentoring Award

Janice McGregor

German Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

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

Dorrance Dean’s Award for Scholar/Specialist-in-Residence

Jacqueline Barrios

Public and Applied Humanties

Grants

Spring 2023

Valentin and Evgenia Dunkel Award for Russian and Slavic Studies

Diana Avdeeva

Russian and Slavic Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

The Japan Foundation Award

Ana Lent

East Asian Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

University of Arizona Mentoring Future Scholars Award

Lillian Gorman

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

Gerald J. Swanson Prize for Teaching Excellence

Letizia Bellocchio

French and Italian

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

LGBTQ+ Research Grant, Institute for LGBT Studies

Harris Kornstein

Public and Applied Humanties

Grants

Spring 2023

College of Humanities Outstanding Senior Award

Ivana Klymko

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

Graduate Student Peer Mentor Award

Romy Cerón Canché

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Spring 2023

Provost Author Support Fund

Aurelia Mouzet

French and Italian

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

RII Workshop Support Grant

Harris Kornstein

Public and Applied Humanties

Grants

Spring 2023

Dorrance Dean’s Award for Research & Entrepreneurialism

Mary Kaitlin M Murphy

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

RII Production Grant

Harris Kornstein

Public and Applied Humanties

Grants

Spring 2023

Connect Arizona Now: Digital Inclusion for Underserved Students and Communities of Southern Arizona (“Project CAN”)

Bryan Carter

Africana Studies

Grants

News Article

Spring 2023

College of Humanities Outstanding Graduate Assistant in Teaching Award

César Ramón Méndez

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

East Asian Buddhist Interactions: Focus on Greater Hangzhou Region Connections with Japan during the Song Dynasty/Kamakura-Muromachi Periods

Albert Welter

East Asian Studies

Grants

Spring 2023

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

Albrecht Classen

German Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

The Hucker Founders Award

Leighanna Pipatanangkura

East Asian Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

Telly Awards

Nathan J Mehr

Humanities Administration

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Spring 2023

National Endowment for the Humanities Initiatives

Borbala Gaspar

French and Italian

Grants

Spring 2023

The Hucker Founders Award

Sophie Camille Olivia Michele Louis

East Asian Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

Digital Humanities Seed Grant, NYU Center for the Humanities

Harris Kornstein

Public and Applied Humanties

Grants

News Article

Spring 2023

University of Arizona Award for Excellence

Richard A Edmiston

Humanities Administration

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

The Blair Prize in Japanese Studies

Tori Wendell

East Asian 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

Spring 2023

College of Humanities Outstanding Graduate Assistant in Teaching Award

Ramón César Méndez Villanueva

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards