Awards & Grants
College of Humanities faculty, staff, and students have won a wide array of awards, honors, fellowships and commendations.
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
Fall 2025
Princeton Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
Eleni Hasaki
Religious Studies and Classics; School of Anthropology
Fellowships
Fall 2025
Bridging Differences in Higher Education Learning Fellowship, UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center
Christine Hoekenga
Humanities Administration
Fellowships
Spring 2025
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (Archaeological Institute of America)
Robert Stephan
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
National Endownment for Humanities at American School of Classical Studies
Eleni Hasaki
Religious Studies and Classics; School of Anthropology
Fellowships
Spring 2025
University of Arizona Foundation, Board of Trustees Small Grant for University Strategic Priority - Pillar Four: Arizona Global – Setting the Standard for a Global University in the Digital Age
Peter Ecke
German Studies
Grants
Spring 2025
James E. Alatis Award for Service to TESOL
Suzanne Panferov Reese
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
University of Arizona Commission on the Status of Women Mini-Grant
Nadia Moraglio
Writing Skills Improvement Program
Grants
Spring 2025
20 years of Early Book Lecture Series, Special Collections
Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
Margaret M. Briehl and Dennis T. Ray Five Star Teaching Award
Kristin Doran
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
World Languages 360 AI Grant
Liudmila Klimanova
Russian and Slavic Studies
Grants
Spring 2025
W.A. Franke Honors College Academy of Scholars
Joela Jacobs
German Studies
Fellowships
Spring 2025
Frank W. Beare Award for Outstanding Book in Christian Origins, Post-Biblical Judaism and/or Graeco-Roman Religions
Courtney Friesen
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award
Borbala Gaspar
French and Italian
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
College of Humanities Distinguished Undergraduate Advising/Mentoring Award
Alison Jameson
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
University of Arizona Distinguished Head/Director’s Award
Judd Ruggill
Public and Applied Humanties
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship
Jasmine Linabary
Public and Applied Humanties
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
Appointment Regents Professor
Jiang Wu
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
Graduate Program Coordinator Outstanding Contributions Award
Frank Whitehead
School of International Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Summer 2025
Life Worth Living Fellowship
Bhakti Mamtora
Religious Studies and Classics
Fellowships
Summer 2025
Ted Bradshaw Outstanding Research Award
Matthew Mars
Public and Applied Humanties
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Summer 2025
SLAT Grant to develop a language teaching handbook with practical multimodal resources
Borbala Gaspar
French and Italian
Grants
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
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
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
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
Fall 2024
Chatfield Award for Anti-Discrimination Research, Teaching, or Service
Arum Park
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2024
COH Dorrance Dean's Award for Research and Entrepreneurialism
Aurelia Mouzet
French and Italian
Honors, Prizes, Awards