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

Stephanie K Springer

Fall 2022
Chatfield Impact Award
Public and Applied Humanties
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Winter 2022
Experiential Learning Design Accelerator Fellow
Public and Applied Humanties
Fellowships
Spring 2020
COH Teaching and Outreach Grant
Public and Applied Humanties
Grants
Spring 2020
COH Teaching and Outreach Grant
Public and Applied Humanties
Grants

Sumayya KR Granger

Spring 2015
University of Arizona Award for Excellence
Center for English as a Second Language
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Sunyoung Yang

Fall 2023
Chatfield Outstanding Untenured Researcher Award
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Suzanne Panferov Reese

Fall 2025
Graduate College Teaching and Mentoring Award
Public and Applied Humanties
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
James E. Alatis Award for Service to TESOL
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Suzanne Thompson

Spring 2024
College of Humanities Distinguished Undergraduate Advising/Mentoring Award
Russian and Slavic Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2024
Startalk Professional Development Program for Teachers of Russian for 2024-2025
Russian and Slavic Studies
Grants

Sylvie Happy Mawuena

Spring 2024
Graduate Fellowship Award
French and Italian
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Taehyeong Kim

Fall 2025
College of Humanities GAT Award for Teaching Excellence
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2022
Graduate College Fellowship
Spanish and Portuguese
Fellowships

Takashi Miura

2021
Japan Foundation Grants
East Asian Studies
Grants
2021
Residential Fellowships Institute for Advances Study in Princeton
East Asian Studies
Fellowships

Tania Leal

Fall 2025
Chatfield Outstanding Untenured Researcher Award 
Spanish and Portuguese
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
NSF Grant - Linguistics Program
Spanish and Portuguese
Grants
Fall 2022
George H. Davis Fellowship
Spanish and Portuguese
Fellowships

Tom Hong Do

Fall 2022
2022 NCTE Richard C. Ohmann Outstanding Article in College English Award
Public and Applied Humanties
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Toni Alexander

2019
University Award for Excellence (Individual)
Humanities Administration
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Tori Wendell

Spring 2023
The Blair Prize in Japanese Studies
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Tyler Meier

Fall 2024
2024 Friends of the Humanities Award, Arizona Humanities
Poetry Center
Honors, Prizes, Awards
2019
University Award for Excellence (Individual)
Poetry Center
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Valentina Vinokurova

Spring 2019
COH Outstanding GAT Award
Russian and Slavic Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards

Wenhao Diao

Summer 2024
STARTALK
East Asian Studies
Grants
Fall 2023
Research Leadership Institute
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Summer 2023
STARTALK
East Asian Studies
Grants
Fall 2022
Title VI National Resource Center (East Asia)
East Asian Studies
Grants
Fall 2021
Chatfield Award for Anti-Racist Research, Teaching, or Service
East Asian Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2017
Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad
East Asian Studies
Grants