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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Spring 2024

University of Arizona Team Award for Excellence

SILLC Business and Academic Support Services Team

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

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Summer 2024

National Endowment for the Humanities: Awards for Faculty

Peter Ecke

German Studies

Fellowships

News Article

Fall 2023

Quadro Economico, Regione di Umbria Grant to construct protection for the archaeological site at Poggio Gramignano; awarded in conjunction with the Comune or Mayor’s Office of Lugnano in Teverina (grant managed by the School of Anthropology)

David Soren

Religious Studies and Classics

Grants

Fall 2023

Chatfield Outstanding Tenured Researcher Award

Miquel Simonet

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Fall 2023

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL (2023-2024)

Aileen Feng

French and Italian

Fellowships

Fall 2023

Joseph and Mary Cacioppo Foundation Grant for the production of a documentary archaeological film on Life on the Tiber (grant managed by the School of Anthropology)

David Soren

Religious Studies and Classics

Grants

Fall 2023

Provost Award for Innovation in Teaching

Kristy Slominski

Religious Studies and Classics

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Fall 2023

Guggenheim Fellowship

Jiang Wu

East Asian Studies

Fellowships

Fall 2023

Joint winner of The Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize: Literatures written in languages other than English for his book "Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World"

Albrecht Classen

German Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2023

Poetry Center/Alley Cat Mural Project

Poetry Center

Grants

Fall 2023

Joseph and Mary Cacioppo Foundation Grant to continue archaeological work at the villa and infant burial site of Poggio Gramignano in Umbria (grant managed by the School of Anthropology)

David Soren

Religious Studies and Classics

Grants

Fall 2023

Elected President of the Association for French Language Studies (AFLS)

Dalila Ayoun

French and Italian

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Fall 2023

Graduate College Award: Excellence in Graduate Teaching Mentoring Award

Ana Carvalho

Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Fall 2023

International Phonetic Association (IPA) Student Research Award

Hadley Forst

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Fall 2023

The Chatfield Impact Award

Harris Kornstein

Public and Applied Humanties

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2023

Chatfield Outstanding Untenured Researcher Award

Sunyoung Yang

East Asian Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2023

Chatfield Award for Anti-Racist Research, Teaching, or Service

Brett Esaki

East Asian Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

Fall 2023

US Department of Education Title V Grant: Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program

Ana Cornide

Spanish and Portuguese

Grants

News Article

Fall 2023

Hispanic American Historical Review Best Book Review Prize

Faith S Harden

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

News Article

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

Spanish and Portuguese

Grants

News Article

Fall 2023

Borchard Center on the Literary Arts Grant

Poetry Center

Grants

Fall 2023

Cultivating Early Career Networks Between Global Asias and Japanese Studies Program

Kimberly Hassel

East Asian Studies

Fellowships

Spring 2023

National Endowment for the Humanities Initiatives

Letizia Bellocchio

French and Italian

Grants

Spring 2023

College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award

Marcy J Ziska

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

Dorrance Dean’s Award for Scholar/Specialist-in-Residence

Jacqueline Barrios

Public and Applied Humanties

Grants

Spring 2023

East Asian Buddhist Interactions: Focus on Greater Hangzhou Region Connections with Japan during the Song Dynasty/Kamakura-Muromachi Periods

Albert Welter

East Asian Studies

Grants

Spring 2023

College of Humanities Outstanding Graduate Assistant in Teaching Award

Ramón César Méndez Villanueva

Spanish and Portuguese

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

The Hucker Founders Award

Leighanna Pipatanangkura

East Asian Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

Spring 2023

The Hucker Founders Award

Sophie Camille Olivia Michele Louis

East Asian Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards

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

Russian and Slavic Studies

Honors, Prizes, Awards