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 Jacee Cho and Professor Sunny Yudkoff were awarded tenure last year and were honored at the College of Letters and Science’s 2022 tenure program this November. Click their names to read brief testaments to their amazing work. Congratulations Professor Cho and Professor Yudkoff!
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 …
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!
Elaine Cannell, a PhD candidate in literary studies, has been awarded a campus-wide teaching assistant award for innovation in teaching. This award recognizes TAs who bring extraordinary creativity to their work and have developed or adapted teaching methods or techniques in new and innovative ways. To Elaine, innovative teaching means “not only deploying creative methods …
Congratulations to to Kristina Huang and Yanie Fécu, who have both been selected to receive Exceptional Service Support Program awards, which will provide them with one course release during the 2022-2023 academic year. This program acknowledges and supports assistant and associate professors, especially women and those from historically underrepresented groups, who are tasked with service activities beyond what is usually …
Caroline Hensley has been honored by the College of Letters and Sciences with a Graduate Peer Mentor Award which recognizes her current role as the Career Advisor for the English major. Her advising practice is centered around encouraging interdisciplinary thought and making employment pathways more accessible and equitable. The Graduate Student Peer Mentor Awards recognize …
Professor Sarah Ensor has been accepted into the Center for Humanities’ First Book Program. This program provides both scholarly and collegial support for junior faculty members revising their first academic book with the goal of turning solid and promising manuscripts into first-rate, field-shaping books. Professor Ensor’s project is tentatively titled “Terminal Regions: Queer Environmental Ethics …
Erin Polnaszek Boyd has been honored with a College of Letters and Sciences Early Career Academic Advising Award for her exemplary performance both in terms of her positive impact on students and through her contributions to the English Department. Hired just as the pandemic was forcing the campus into remote operations and instruction, Erin was …