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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Award Type

German Studies

2020
DAAD AA Excellence Award in International Exchange
Albrecht Classen
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2019
Speaker at the 2019 TedEx Talks, University of Arizona
Albrecht Classen
Fellowships
2018
Eic Travel Award, Humanities Open Access
Albrecht Classen
Fellowships
Fall 2017
Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Albrecht Classen
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2017
Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions for outstanding services to German and Medieval Studies
Albrecht Classen
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2016
Michael Delhoyde Award for Distinguished Contributions in Editing, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Albrecht Classen
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2016
NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising, Certificate of Merit (Faculty or Administrator Advising Category)
Albrecht Classen
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2015
Excellence in Academic Advising Faculty or Administrator Advisory Award
Albrecht Classen
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2021
Fulbright Grants
Alexandra Johnson
Grants
Spring 2020
National Endowment for the Humanities--Dialogues with Veterans’ Program
Barbara W Citera
Grants
Fall 2022
The Chatfield Outstanding Tenured Researcher Award
Chantelle Warner
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2020
ACTFL Research Priorities Grants
Chantelle Warner
Grants
News Article
Spring 2023
College of Humanities Distinguished Advising/Mentoring Award
Janice McGregor
Honors, Prizes, Awards
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
Grants
News Article
Spring 2021
Leipzig Tucson Virtual Master Class (International Virtual Collaboration), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (with Leonhard Herrmann, Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Joela Jacobs
Grants
News Article
2021
University of Arizona Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award
Joela Jacobs
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2020
University of Arizona Foundation Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award
Joela Jacobs
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2019
COH Distinguished Teaching Award
Joela Jacobs
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2019
Conference "Vegetal Poetics," funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for Research Support (with Solvejg Nitzke, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany and Isabel Kranz Universität Wien, Austria)
Joela Jacobs
Grants
News Article
Fall 2020
Research, Innovation and Impact Challenge Grant
Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni
Grants
Summer 2024
National Endowment for the Humanities: Awards for Faculty
Peter Ecke
Fellowships
News Article
2020
ACTFL Research Priorities Grants
Peter Ecke
Grants
2020
Deutsch macht Spaß Grants
Peter Ecke
Grants

Humanities Administration

2020
Hispanic-Serving Institution Fellowships
Karina Rodríguez
Fellowships
Spring 2022
University of Arizona Award for Excellence
Natalie Elaine Olson
Honors, Prizes, Awards
News Article
Spring 2023
Telly Awards
Nathan J Mehr
Honors, Prizes, Awards
News Article
Spring 2023
University of Arizona Award for Excellence
Richard A Edmiston
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2019
University Award for Excellence (Individual)
Toni Alexander
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Interdisciplinary Studies

Spring 2024
LGBTQ+ Institute Faculty Research Grant
Lazz Kinnamon
Grants
News Article

National Center for Interpretation

Spring 2022
Chartered Institute of Linguists Fellowship
Holly Ann Silvestri
Fellowships