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
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL (2023-2024)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Outstanding Teaching Through the Pandemic, Certificate of Recognition, Pearson Publisher
Valentin and Evgenia Dunkel Award for Russian and Slavic Studies
Alexander and Mary Tsien Dunkel Award for Russian and Slavic Studies
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Dorrance Dean’s Award for Scholar/Specialist-in-Residence
The Center for East Asian Studies Graduating Senior Award
Dorrance Dean’s Award for Scholar/Specialist-in-Residence
Dorrance Dean’s Award for Scholar/Specialist-in-Residence
Interfaith America's Religion and Health Curriculum Grant
Gerald J. Swanson Prize for Teaching Excellence
LGBTQ+ Research Grant, Institute for LGBT Studies
College of Humanities Outstanding Graduate Assistant in Teaching Award
RII Workshop Support Grant
College of Humanities Distinguished Advising/Mentoring Award
University of Arizona Mentoring Future Scholars Award
University of Arizona Award for Excellence
College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award
Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship
The Blair Prize in Japanese Studies
The Blair Prize in Japanese Studies
The Hucker Founders Award
The Hucker Founders Award
Book Award for “Street Scriptures,” Harry Shaw Award for Outstanding Work in African American Popular Cultural Studies, from the Popular Culture Association
The Japan Foundation Award
Best First Book Prize for "Love for Sale: Representing prostitution in Imperial Russia", American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
National Endowment for the Humanities Initiatives
National Endowment for the Humanities Initiatives
National Endowment for the Humanities Initiatives
The Chatfield Outstanding Tenured Researcher Award
Weiner Award
Biosphere 2 Faculty Innovative Teaching Fellow
Geiss Hsu Foundation Open-Access Award
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Fellowship for Dissertation Writing
Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) 2022 Best Poster Award
Best Anthology, John Whitmer Historical Association Awards
Chatfield Outstanding Untenured Researcher Award
The book Trans Talmud was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards
Geiss Hsu Foundation Subvention Award
Title VI National Resource Center (East Asia)
The Chatfield Impact Award
Graduate College Fellowship
Centennial Achievement Award
2022 NCTE Richard C. Ohmann Outstanding Article in College English Award
Title VI National Resource Center (East Asia)
Fulbright Research and Teaching Grant
Honorary Member of the American Association of Teachers of German
Title VI Language Resource Center Grant
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