Amadi Ozier has been awarded a 2024-25 Schomburg Fellowship through the Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library to conduct archival research for Ozier’s book project on humor and the development of the black middle class in the 1890s and 1900s. Congratulations, Amadi!
Please join us on Sunday, April 21st in the Alumni Room of the Pyle Center from 4:00-5:30PM to celebrate this year’s scholarship and writing prize recipients as well as the recipients of the Early Career Alumni Awards. Watch the full list of winners here Click here for the full program The prizewinners are as follows… …
Every year the Program in Creative Writing awards up to $15,000 to undergraduates and graduate students at various stages in their studies. Here are the 2023 award winners! Charles M. Hart Writers of Promise Awards Judged by Jackie Chalghin, Nitya Gupta, RE Hawley, Phoebe Kranefuss, Aeron Parks and Robert Bynum 1st place: Hannah DeGuzman 2nd …
Professor Elizabeth B. Bearden has been selected as a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Early Modern Studies. She joins 171 other scholars, scientists, writers, and artists from around the country, all chosen by a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2,500 applicants. Successful applicants are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and …
Professor Mark Vareschi has been awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award. The William H. Kiekhofer Teaching Award honors an assistant or associate professor in the College of Letters & Science. Congratulations Professor Vareschi!
Professor Theresa Delgadillo has been awarded a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award provides generous research funding and is among the most prestigious awards granted by the university. Congratulations Professor Delgadillo!
Department manager Spring Sherrod is the recipient of an Outstanding Women of Color award. The annual Outstanding Women of Color Awards acknowledge and honor women of color among UW–Madison’s faculty, staff, students, and those in the greater Madison community who have made outstanding contributions in areas such as social justice, activism and advocacy, community building, …
Professor Amadi Ozier has won a $20,000 project grant called the NYC Narrative Power Network for Health Equity and Racial Justice Project Grant to support hosting three peer-education community events centered on health and racial equity for her organization in Brooklyn, NY, the Crown Heights CARE Collective. The grant was funded by The Fund for Public Health in New …
Congratulations to Professor Christa Olson, new chair of the English Department, whose recent book, American Magnitude, received the 2022 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the Public Address division of the National Communication Association!
Professor Sunny Yudkoff is the recipient of the 2022 Phillip R. Certain-Gary D. Sandefur Letters & Science Distinguished Faculty Award. This annual award honors and recognizes outstanding teaching by a member of the College of Letters & Science faculty. The honorees are nominated by the academic associate deans in the college and selected by the dean. Congratulations Professor Yudkoff!