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
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

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
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