Awards & Grants

Students and faculty at awards ceremony

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

 

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!

Award Type
Spring 2026

University of Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia

Albert Welter
East Asian Studies
Grants
Spring 2026

Finalist for the 2026 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

Margaree Little
Russian and Slavic Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Summer 2026

Fulbright US Scholar Award

Peter Ecke
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
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
Fall 2025

U of A Accelerator Fellowship, AY 24-25

Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Fellowships
Fall 2025

Khyentse Foundation Student Award for Excellence in Buddhist Studies

Jiang Wu
Center for Buddhist Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

Graduate College Teaching and Mentoring Award

Suzanne Panferov Reese
Public and Applied Humanties
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

Provost's Scholarly Engagement Fund

Kate Mackay
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy
Grants
Fall 2025

College of Humanities GAT Award for Teaching Excellence

Antonia Kampe
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

College of Humanities GAT Award for Teaching Excellence

Yuyu Zhang
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

Michael Delahoyde Award for Distinguished Contributions in Editing with three other professors a special issue of the Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (79.2)

Katia Bezerra
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

Most Ambitious Researcher Award in the field of German Studies, Scientific Laurels

Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

Inclusion in the 26th Edition of the “World Top Scientists Awards (WTS 2025)” under the category of “Best Research Article Award”

Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

2025 Society for Classical Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching at the College Level

Sarah L McCallum
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

Chatfield Impact Award

Eliud Chuffe
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

College of Humanities GAT Award for Teaching Excellence

Taehyeong Kim
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

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

Jacqueline Barrios
Public and Applied Humanities
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

Chatfield Outstanding Tenured Researcher Award 

Hai Ren
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2025

Chatfield Outstanding Untenured Researcher Award 

Tania Leal
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025

Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (Archaeological Institute of America)

Robert Stephan
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025

NSF Grant - Linguistics Program

Julieta Fernandez
Spanish and Portuguese
Grants
Spring 2025

NSF Grant - Linguistics Program

Tania Leal
Spanish and Portuguese
Grants
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