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!

Award Type

Russian and Slavic Studies

Spring 2023
Best First Book Prize for "Love for Sale: Representing prostitution in Imperial Russia", American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Colleen Lucey
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2022
COH Distinguished Teaching Award
Colleen Lucey
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2019
Association for Women in Slavic Studies, Honorable Mention for best article in Slavic women's and gender studies
Colleen Lucey
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2019
Fisher Fellowships
Colleen Lucey
Fellowships
2018
U.S. Department of State Peer-to-Peer Grants
Colleen Lucey
Grants
2021
COH Outstanding Senior Award
Derek Foehrkolb
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2023
Alexander and Mary Tsien Dunkel Award for Russian and Slavic Studies
Diana Avdeeva
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2023
Valentin and Evgenia Dunkel Award for Russian and Slavic Studies
Diana Avdeeva
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2022
Weiner Award
Diana Avdeeva
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2022
Graduate College Fellowship
Diana Avdeeva
Fellowships
2021
COH Outstanding Senior Award
Emily Allerton
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2019
COH Outstanding Senior Award
Frances Lee Forbes
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2022
2021 Dorothy Chun Award for Best Journal Article
Liudmila Klimanova
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2022
University of Arizona Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award
Liudmila Klimanova
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2021
CERCLL Awards 2021 Fellowshipss
Liudmila Klimanova
Fellowships
2021
Stevens Initiative / Aston Institute Research Grants
Liudmila Klimanova
Grants
2020
The Stevens Foundation Research Grants
Liudmila Klimanova
Grants
2019
ACTFL Research Priorities Grants
Liudmila Klimanova
Grants
2019
Robert L. Baker Research Fellowships
Liudmila Klimanova
Fellowships
2015
ACTFL-NFMLTA/MLJ Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Foreign Language Education
Liudmila Klimanova
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2024
College of Humanities Distinguished Undergraduate Advising/Mentoring Award
Suzanne Thompson
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2019
COH Outstanding GAT Award
Valentina Vinokurova
Honors, Prizes, Awards

School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SILLC)

Spring 2024
University of Arizona Team Award for Excellence
SILLC Business and Academic Support Services Team
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

Fall 2023
Graduate College Award: Excellence in Graduate Teaching Mentoring Award
Ana Carvalho
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spanish and Portuguese

Fall 2020
Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
Alicia M Brown
Fellowships
Fall 2019
University Fellowship
Alicia M Brown
Fellowships
2021
University of Arizona Award for Excellence
Amy Warren
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2020
National Endowment for the Humanities--Humanities Initiatives at HSIs
Ana Carvalho
Grants
Fall 2023
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant: Bilingual Voices in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Phase 2: Preserving, Expanding & Elaborating Sociolinguistic Collections
Ana Carvalho
Grants
Spring 2022
COH Faculty Research Grant
Ana Carvalho
Grants