The superb work of Nancy Linh Karls has improved the quality of writing of students, faculty and staff at all levels of the university. Far beyond campus, she’s made a profound impact through community outreach. Karls has been part of the core leadership team of The Writing Center and its Writing Across the Curriculum program …
Professor Ralph Grunewald has been appointed Mellon-Morgridge Professor in the Humanities for the 2022-23 academic year, leading a constellation course on “Truth and Crime.” Made possible by support from the Mellon Foundation and John P. and Tashia Morgridge and housed in the Constellations humanities program, Mellon-Morgridge Professors teach high-enrollment classes animated by contemporary questions around …
Professor Ramzi Fawaz has been awarded H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, which includes $60,000 in research funds and a named professorship. Funded by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) in recognition of the leadership of the late WARF Trustee President H. I. Romnes, the H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship is intended to recognize and support …
Professor Monique Allewaert has been awarded a fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center to support research and writing related to her project Luminescence: Insect Knowledge, Power, and the Literary: 1700–1814, which explores how West Indian plantation colonies’ inadvertent proliferation of insects became central to the cultural productions of enslaved, free black, indigenous, and subaltern white …
Professor Elizabeth Bearden has been awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2022-23 academic year. The position allows for uninterrupted research among a community of scholars at one of the world’s foremost centers for intellectual inquiry. Each year, IAS welcomes more than 200 of the world’s most promising post-doctoral researchers …
Professor Aparna Dharwadker has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her project “Alternative Modernities” and the Modernization of Urban Theatre in India, a book about urban theater and modernity in colonial and postcolonial India from 1850 to the present. The National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, education, preservation, and public …
Professor Aparna Dharwadker has been honored with the Kellett Mid-Career Award. This award recognizes Professor Dharwadker’s distinguished scholarship in English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies. A divisional committee appointed by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education chooses winners from professors nominated by departments, Ph.D. major programs and interdepartmental groups. The Kellett …
Professor Mario Ortiz-Robles has been awarded with Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award recognizes Professor Ortiz-Robles’ distinguished scholarship as well as his standout efforts in teaching and service. The professorship provides five years of flexible funding — two-thirds of which is provided by the Office of the Provost through the generosity of the Vilas trustees …
Professor Laila Amine is the recipient of a Vilas Early Career Investigator Award for excellence in teaching and research. Professor Amine, who specializes in 20th-century African American and African Diaspora Literatures, will receive research funding for her current project.
Congratulations to Professor Mark Vareschi, who has been selected as one of 26 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their tenure date are eligible. Professor Vareschi’s first book, Everywhere and Nowhere, …