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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Fall 2024

Worldwide Institutional Partnerships in German Language, Literature, and Culture, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (with Leonhard Herrmann, Universität Leipzig, Germany and James Orao, University of Nairobi, Kenya)

Joela Jacobs

German Studies

Grants

News Article

Fall 2024

Certificate of Merit for Outlaw Music in Russia: The Rise of an Unlikely Genre, the 2024 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research in Recorded Country, Folk, World or Roots Music

Anastasia Gordienko

Russian and Slavic Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

Outlaw Music in Russia: The Rise of an Unlikely Genre, shortlisted for the 2024 AATSEEL Best First Book Award, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

Anastasia Gordienko

Russian and Slavic Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

The Institutional Faculty/Staff of the Month Award (November), The National Residence Hall Honorary

Anastasia Gordienko

Russian and Slavic Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Fall 2024

RII Research Development Grant - FY25 Faculty Seed Grant

Arum Park

Religious Studies and Classics

Grants

News Article

Fall 2024

The Chatfield Award for Anti-Discrimination Research, Teaching, or Service

Arum Park

Religious Studies and Classics

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

COH Dorrance Dean's Award for Research and Entrepreneurialism

Aurelia Mouzet

French and Italian

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

American Association of Teachers of Italian Distinguished Service Award

Giuseppe Cavatorta

French and Italian

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge: A linguistically responsive Teaching Assistant (TA) training model

Julieta Fernandez

Spanish and Portuguese

Grants

News Article

Fall 2024

Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) Seed Grant

Julieta Fernandez

Spanish and Portuguese

Grants

News Article

Fall 2024

Women of Impact Award

Karen K. Seat

Religious Studies and Classics

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

2024 Innovation in Language Program Direction Award (The American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC))

Liudmila Klimanova

Russian and Slavic Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring

Eleni Hasaki

Religious Studies and Classics

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

College of Humanities Dorrance Doctoral Fellowship

Dhruv Sharma

German Studies

Fellowships

Fall 2024

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

Ziling Wan

East Asian Studies

Fellowships

Fall 2024

English Language Programs Conference Grant for AZTESOL 2024

Lawrence Norman Berlin

Center for English as a Second Language

Grants

News Article

Fall 2024

Coalition of Women in German Dissertation Prize

Sina Meissgeier

German Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

Provost's Investment Fund

Sonia Colina

National Center for Interpretation

Grants

News Article

Fall 2024

2024 Friends of the Humanities Award, Arizona Humanities

Tyler Meier

Poetry Center

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

The Chatfield Impact Award

Phyllis Taoua

French and Italian

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

The Chatfield Outstanding Tenured Researcher of the Year Award

Rae Erin Dachille

Religious Studies and Classics

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

The Chatfield Outstanding Untenured Researcher of the Year Award

Joshua Schlachet

East Asian Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2024

College of Humanities Dorrance Doctoral Fellowship

Madeline Hannon

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Fall 2024

College of Humanities Dorrance Doctoral Fellowship

Lu Zheng

East Asian Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2024

Flinn Foundation Creative Communities Grant

Poetry Center

Grants

Spring 2024

Borchard Center on Literary Arts Sponsored Poetry and Prose Reading

Poetry Center

Grants

Spring 2024

University of Arizona Commission on the Status of Women Mini-Grant

Andrea Holm

Writing Skills Improvement Program

Grants

Spring 2024

University of Arizona Team Award for Excellence

SILLC Business and Academic Support Services Team

School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SILLC)

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Spring 2024

Digital Borderlands in the Classroom Faculty Fellowship

Kristy Slominski

Religious Studies and Classics

Fellowships

News Article

Spring 2024

The University of Arizona Foundation Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award

Robert Stephan

Religious Studies and Classics

Honors, Prizes, Awards