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

Religious Studies and Classics

Fall 2024
Chatfield Outstanding Tenured Researcher of the Year Award
Rae Erin Dachille
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2024
2023, Finalist for American Academy of Religionís Award for Excellence in Textual Studies
Rae Erin Dachille
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2024
2023, Finalist for American Academy of Religionís Best First Book in the History of Religions
Rae Erin Dachille
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2024
CEAS Faculty Travel Grant
Rae Erin Dachille
Grants
Spring 2022
Provost Author Support Award
Rae Erin Dachille
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Summer 2022
NEH Summer Institute, The Imagination and Imaginal Worlds in the Mirror of Buddhism
Rae Erin Dachille
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2021
Classical Association of the Middle West and South Grants
Robert Groves
Grants
2021
Society for Classical Studies Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at College Level
Robert Groves
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2021
University of Arizona Office of Digital Learning Technology Innovations in Digital Learning Seed Grants
Robert Groves
Grants
Spring 2025
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (Archaeological Institute of America)
Robert Stephan
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2024
The University of Arizona Foundation Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award
Robert Stephan
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2021
Gerald J. Swanson Prize for Teaching Excellence
Robert Stephan
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2021
Margaret M. Briehl and Dennis T. Ray Five Star Faculty Award
Robert Stephan
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2020
COH Distinguished Teaching Award
Robert Stephan
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2019
COH Distinguished Undergraduate Advising/Mentoring Award
Robert Stephan
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2021
University of Arizona Five Star Faculty or Administrator Award
Robert Stephen
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2020
COH Distinguished Teaching Award
Robert Stephen
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2019
COH Distinguished Undergraduate Advising/Mentoring Award
Robert Stephen
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2024
Provost Award for Innovation in Teaching
Sarah L McCallum
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2022
The Provost's Author Support Fund
Sarah L McCallum
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Religious Studies and Classics; School of Anthropology

Fall 2025
Princeton Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
Eleni Hasaki
Fellowships
Spring 2025
National Endownment for Humanities at American School of Classical Studies
Eleni Hasaki
Fellowships

Russian and Slavic Studies

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
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
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2024
The Institutional Faculty/Staff of the Month Award (November), The National Residence Hall Honorary
Anastasia Gordienko
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2022
The First Book Subvention Program of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Anastasia Gordienko
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2022
University of Arizona Provost’s Author Support Fund
Anastasia Gordienko
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2021
US Department of Education Title VI NRCS Grants
Anastasia Gordienko
Grants
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