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.

Edward Branigan, Professor of Film and Media Studies
Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 2008

Helen Callus, Associate Professor of Music
President of the American Viola Society

Douglas H. Daniels, Professor of History and Black Studies
Fulbright Fellowship, Yokohama City University in Japan, 2007-2008

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.

Sharon Farmer, Professor of History
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007-2008

M. Patricia Fumerton, Professor of English
National Endowment for the Humanities: Collections and Resources Grant to fund the second phase of the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA).

Mary Furner, Professor of History
Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2007

Carol Genetti, Professor of Linguistics
National Science Foundation

Matthew Gordon, Associate Professor of Linguistics
National Science Foundation Grant, 2004-2007
National Science Foundation Grant, 2006-2008

Anita Guerrini, Professor of History
UC President’s Research Fellowship, 2007-2008

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

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

Richard Ross, Professor of Art
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2007

Wade Clark Roof, Professor of Religious Studies
Fulbright Tocqueville Distinguished Chair in American Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2007.
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, Assistant Professor of History
2007 Best Article Prize for Health, Science, and Society presented by the Latin American Studies Association.

David White, Professor of Religious Studies
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2007

Simon Williams, Professor of Theater and Dance
Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Queen Mary, University of London, Fall 2007

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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