Recent Award Recipients
Catherine Albanese, Professor of Religious Studies
American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Historical Studies Category for A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion, Yale University Press, 2007. This publication also received the Bronze Medal in the Religion Category from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Anthony Barbieri-Low, Associate Professor of History
2008 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association (CAA); the Joseph Levenson Prize for work on China pre-1900; and the James Henry Breasted Prize from the American Historical Association (AHA) for his book, Artisans in Early Imperial China (University of Washington Press, 2007).
Hilary Bernstein, Associate Professor of History
University of California President's Research Grant, 2007-2008
Michael Berry, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowship for Translation Projects, 2009
Edward Branigan, Professor of Film and Media Studies
Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 2008
Edward Branigan, Professor of Film and Media Studies
University of California President's Research Fellowships in the Humanities
José Cabezón, Professor of Religious Studies
Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, 2007
Wallace Chafe, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea, selected the Korean translation of Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: the Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing. University of Chicago Press, 1994. as "the excellent book of 2008."
Elizabeth Cook, Associate Professor of English
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
Douglas H. Daniels, Professor of History and Black Studies
Fulbright Fellowship, Yokohama City University in Japan, 2007-2008
James Donelan, Lecturer, Writing Program
2008 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize given by the International Conference on Romanticism for the book judged to be the year's most distinguished contribution to Romanticism studies for Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Adrienne Edgar, Associate Professor of History
Annual Article Award from the Berkshire Conference of Women Histories for her
article "Bolshevism, Patriarchy, and the Nation: The Soviet 'Emancipation' of Muslim Women in Pan-Islamic Perspective," Slavic Review 65 (2006), 252-272, January 2008.
Joel Feigin, Professor of Music
Commission to compose a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra for Israeli-American pianist Yael Weiss, Fromm Music Foundation, 2008
M. Patricia Fumerton, Professor of English and Director of the English Broadshide Ballad Archive
National Endowment for the Humanities: Collections and Resources Grant to fund the second phase of the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA).
2009 Digital Eighteenth Century Prize from the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Mario T. García, Professor of History and Chicana and Chicano Studies
Fulbright Fellowship, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2008-2009
Carol Genetti, Professor of Linguistics
National Science Foundation
Carol Genetti, Professor of Linguistics
2009 Joseph Greenberg Award given by the Association for Linguistic Typology for her book, Grammar of Dolakha Newar. Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.
Matthew Gordon, Associate Professor of Linguistics
National Science Foundation Grant, 2004-2007
National Science Foundation Grant, 2006-2008
Pekka Hämäläinen, Associate Professor of History
2009 Bancroft Prize for his book, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008). The book was also the Winner of the 2008 Kate Broocks Bates Award, presented by the Texas State Historical Association and co-winner of the 2009 Merle Curtis Award, presented by the Organization of American Historians. Received the Cundill International Prize in History Recognition of Excellence, 11/02/2009.
Carol Lansing, Professor of History
Robert Lehmann Visiting Professor at the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, 2008.
2008 Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History for her book Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes (Cornell University Press, 2007).
Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History
University of California President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2008-2009
Cecilia Mendez, Associate Professor of History
The Howard Cline Memorial Book Prize from the American Historical Association for her book, Plebeian Republic, Duke University Press, 2005.
Stephan Miescher, Associate Professor of History
Fellowship, Academic Council of Learned Societies, 2007-2008
Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Getty Consortium Scholar, Getty Research Institute, 2009-2010
Marko Peljhan, Associate Professor of Art and Media Arts and Technology
Prešernova Nagrada (National award in the field of culture), Administrative Board of the Prešeren Foundation.
Dwight Reynolds, Professor of Religous Studies
ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship, 2008
Curtis Roads, Professor of Media Arts and Technology
National Science Foundation Grant, 2007-2008
Richard Ross, Professor of Art
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2007
Wade Clark Roof, Professor of Religious Studies
Ford Foundation, 3-year grant, 2008-2011
Appointed to a two-year term on the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education Science Panel of the Swedish Research Council, 2007-2009.
Gabriella Soto Laveaga, Associate Professor of History
2007 Best Article Prize for Health, Science, and Society presented by the Latin American Studies Association.
Paul Spickard, Professor of History
Fulbright Fellowship, University of Muenster, Germany, 2008-2009
Ines Talamantez, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Centennial Scholar, American Academy of Religion ( AAR), American Lectures in the History of Religions (ALHR), 2009-2010
Ann Taves, Professor of Religious Studies
President Elect of the American Academy of Religion
Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, 2008-2009.
Volker Welter, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Fellow, Centre d'étude, Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Montréal, 2008-2009
David White, Professor of Religious Studies
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2007.
Richard Wittman, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Rome Prize Fellowship in Modern Italian Studies, American Academy in Rome, 2009-2010.
Salim Yaqub, Associate Professor of History
Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2007-2008.
Faculty Honors by Year: 2007-2008, 2006-2007, 2005-2006
Book Awards
HFA Guggenheim Recipients
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