Awards & Grants
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
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
Spring 2025
University of Arizona Big Idea Challenge Grant
Matthew Mars
Public and Applied Humanties
Grants
Spring 2025
University of Arizona Big Idea Challenge Grant
Kenneth S McAllister
Public and Applied Humanties
Grants
Spring 2025
Capacity Building Grant from the Research Leadership Institute
Arum Park
Religious Studies and Classics
Grants
Spring 2025
12th Edition of the International Phenomenological Research Awards (PLR 2025) under the category of “Best Scholar Award”
Albrecht Classen
German Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
W.A. Franke Honors College Academy of Scholars
Matthew Mars
Public and Applied Humanties
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Spring 2025
Awarded a role on the Modern Language Association Executive Council
Alain-Philippe Durand
Humanities Administration
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
Fall 2024
American Association of Teachers of Italian Distinguished Service Award
Giuseppe Cavatorta
French and Italian
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2024
2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge: A linguistically responsive Teaching Assistant (TA) training model
Julieta Fernandez
Spanish and Portuguese
Grants
Fall 2024
Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) Seed Grant
Julieta Fernandez
Spanish and Portuguese
Grants
Fall 2024
Women of Impact Award
Karen K. Seat
Religious Studies and Classics
Honors, Prizes, Awards
Fall 2024
2024 Innovation in Language Program Direction Award (The American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC))
Liudmila Klimanova
Russian and Slavic Studies
Honors, Prizes, Awards