Faculty Awards

The following is a list of awards, honors and fellowships that our faculty have received.  The list includes over 200 awards and is growing each year.  Among the prestigious awards our faculty have received are the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, the Guggenheim, NEH grants, and several MacArthur "Genius Awards".

  • “Best in Show”, Dixie Annual Drawing Competition
  • 16th Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Plaque in Video Arts for Skippy Peanut Butter Jars
  • 26th Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Plaque in Experimental Video Arts for the video Landscape
  • 2nd Annual Daniel Wadsworth Memorial Video Festival, sponsored by MonteVideo, Second Place for Skippy Peanut Butter Jars
  • 4 Mattress Factory Artist in Residence
  • ACLS Fellowship
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award
  • American Antiquarian Society, Fellowship
  • American Council of Learned Societies fellowship
  • American Historical Association Fellowship
  • American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Prize
  • American Historical Association's John H. Dunning Prize
  • American Library Association Notable Book
  • American Philosophical Society Fellowship
  • American Philosophical Society Grant
  • American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
  • Artist's Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
  • Artists Fellowship, Offset Institute, Brandywine Workshops, Philadelphia,
  • Arts Fellowship (mixed-media), New Jersey State Council on the Arts
  • Association for Hispanic Classic Theater’s Translation Prize
  • Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Honorable Mention in Experimental Video
  • Austrian History Prize
  • Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity
  • Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
  • C.V. Starr Foundation / Middlebury School in Paris Fellowship
  • CASE Massachusetts Professor of the Year
  • Chancellor's Medal and Distinguished Faculty Lecture
  • Charles Grant Ellis Research Fellow in Oriental Carpets at The Textile Museum
  • College of Humanities & Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award
  • College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award,
  • College Outstanding Teacher Award
  • Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris
  • Commission by the Brockton Arts Museum through a “New Works” Grant from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities for two ceramic vessels
  • Conti Research Fellowship
  • Costume Society of America's Millia Davenport Publication Award the best book
  • Co-winner of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers' Writer of the Year 2002 Award for Creative Prose: Nonfiction
  • Craft Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
  • Craft Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council/New England Foundation for the Arts
  • Craft Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
  • Dissertation Year Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania, with a special commendation for merit
  • Distinguished Teaching Award: Umass Amherst
  • Doctoral Fellowship Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Foundation
  • Eccles Research Fellowship, The British Library
  • Emerging Artist of the Year, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
  • Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts
  • Fellow of the East Asian Institute at Columbia University
  • Fellow of the National Humanities Institute, Yale University
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Fellowship from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
  • Fellowship in Poetry, Howard Foundation
  • Fellowship in Poetry, Rex Foundation
  • Fellowship in Poetry, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts
  • Fellowship in Poetry, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • Fellowship, African Studies Institute: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
  • Fellowship, Ahmanson Foundation
  • Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
  • Fellowship, Bunting Institute at Harvard University
  • Fellowship, Centre For Intercultural Studies at University of Santo Tomás (Manila)
  • Fellowship, Chin-Ben See Memorial Fund
  • Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation
  • Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council
  • Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
  • Fellowship, Mellon Foundation
  • Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
  • Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Fellowship, National Science Foundation
  • Fellowship, Society for the Humanities: Cornell University
  • Fellowship, Southern African Research Program: Yale University
  • Fellowship, University of Florida
  • Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  • Finalist, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
  • Five College Women’s Studies Research Center Fellowship
  • Five College Women's Studies Research Associateship
  • Ford Foundations-ACLS Fellow
  • French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fellowship
  • Fulbright Professor at Christ Church and New College, Oxford,
  • Fulbright-Hayes Fellow
  • Fulbright's Summer 2000 German Studies Seminar (Fellow)
  • Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow. Williams College
  • German National Fellowship
  • Great Lakes Film And Video Festival, First Place in Experimental Video, for Childhood Logic and Variance III, Milwaukee, WI
  • Harvard University Divinity School Fellowship for the study of Women and Religion
  • Harvard's Charles Warren Center, Fellowship
  • Hayden Carruth Award
  • Hazel D. Cole Fellow in Jewish Studies (University of Washington)
  • Healy/Public Service Endowment Grant, University of Massachusetts
  • Honorary Fellowship, University of Wales Swansea, U.K.
  • Howard Foundation Fellowship
  • Howard Marraro Prize by the Society of Italian Historical Studies
  • Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem
  • Institute for Research in Cognitive Science fellowship for research in Cognitive Science
  • International Security Studies Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center
  • J.W. MCCONNELL GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
  • James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians
  • Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review
  • John Adams Fellowship at the University of London
  • John Carter Brown Library
  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
  • Judaic Studies Fellow, University of Massachusetts
  • Kahn Award for Outstanding Essay from the American Society for Theater Research
  • L.A. Dramalogue Critics Acting Award
  • L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award
  • Lansdowne Visiting Scholar, University of Victoria
  • Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets
  • Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
  • Lilly Teaching Fellowship, UMass Amherst Center for Teaching
  • Linguistic Society of America fellowship for the LSA summer institute at Cornell University
  • Listing in Outstanding Young Women in America
  • Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College
  • Massachusetts Book Award for Non-Fiction
  • Max Planck Society research fellowship
  • Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grants
  • National Book Award
  • National Book Award Finalist
  • National Book Critics Circle Honor Book
  • National Council of Teachers of English 2002 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research
  • National Institute of Arts and Letters Award
  • National Jewish Book Award Finalist
  • National Peace Fellow (of the Hoover Institute)
  • National Science Foundation
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
  • National Talent Search Exam scholarship awarded by the National Council for Education Research and Training, Government of India
  • Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Fellowship
  • New York Times Outstanding Book
  • Newbery Honor Medal
  • Outstanding Academic Advisor Award
  • Outstanding Teacher Award at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • P.E.N./Faulkner award
  • Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship
  • Pew Charitable Trust/Five Colleges Curricular Development Grant
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow Agrarian Studies at Yale University
  • POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • President, Arabic Linguistics Society
  • Progressive Architecture Young Architects Award
  • Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency, (Awarded Friends Fellowship)
  • Research and Writing Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation
  • Research Literacy Fellowship, Commonwealth College, University of Massachusetts
  • Rockefeller Fellowship in Intercultural Studies at Princeton
  • Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
  • Skippy Peanut Butter Jars, Video Shorts II Award, Seattle, WA
  • Smithsonian Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Portrait Gallery
  • Social Science Research Council
  • Society for Technical Communication's Distinguished Communication Award in 1999
  • SONY National Video Festival, First Place, Midwest educational Media category, for Waveguide I: Black and White Video Waveforms, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
  • Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians
  • Sprout Fund Seed Award
  • SSRC
  • Stroum Teaching Fellowship at the University of Washington
  • Stuart L. Bernath Prize
  • TEACHnology Fellowship, University of Massachusetts
  • The Fifth New Jersey Film And Video Festival, First place in Video Arts
  • UMass Chancellor’s Outstanding Community Service Award
  • UMass Chancellor's Medal
  • UMass Conti Fellowship
  • UMass Distinguished Teacher's Award
  • UMass Faculty Fellowship Award for Distinguished Research and Scholarship
  • UMass Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas
  • University of Massachusetts Faculty Fellowship
  • University of Massachusetts Outstanding Research Fellowship 1993-1994
  • Villa I Tatti Fellowship, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy
  • Virginia Museum Professional Fellowship
  • Visual Artist's Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
  • Visual Arts Fellowship, Massachusetts Arts Foundation,
  • Wallace Stevens Award
  • Wilber Owen Sypherd Award for the Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities
  • William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Joint Fellowship Award at UCLA
  • William Carlos Williams Award
  • William Penn Fellowship, four year fellowship awarded by the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellow
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
  • Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
  • Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY
  • Young China Scholars Award, China Times Cultural Foundation