Faculty & Staff
2021
Laila Amine
- residency fellowship for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for 21-22.
Amaud Johnson
- Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award from the College of Letters & Science
Caroline Gottschalk-Drushke
- Excellence in Community-Based Teaching Award from the College of Letters & Science
2020
Karen Britland
- College of Letters & Science Distinguished Honors Faculty Award
Aparna Dharwadker
- Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Outstanding Book Award Finalist for A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory, 1850 to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2019). This award is given to books that have the “potential to interrupt, change and/or challenge theatre practice and pedagogy.” Aparna’s book was recognized as “a monumental achievement” and “truly field defining” and received an Honorable Mention. You can read more about the award and Aparna’s book here. The ATHE has also put together a video with an appreciation of the book and Aparna’s acceptance speech.
Caroline Druschke
- The National Science Foundation will fund her collaboration with Eric Booth (Agronomy) and Rebecca Lave (Geography, Indiana University) for the project Dynamics of Stream Restauration and Flood Resilience in a Changing Climate.
- Stories from the Flood was awarded a $5000 support grant from the Morgridge Center.
Ramzi Fawaz
- Recipient of the Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award, which celebrates “exemplary achievements in teaching that honor the university’s value of diversity and inclusion as the path to excellence.”
Sara Guyer
- PI on a $2.8 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to the UW-based Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. Read more about the grant here.
Kristina Huang
- Honorable Mention from L&S Faculty Honors Committee
Frédéric Neyrat
- Recipient of a Faculty Development Award for training that will allow him to offer further classes that appeal to students from STEM fields.
Beth Nguyen
- Recipient of Vilas Associate Award, which recognizes “new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance.”
Mario Ortiz-Robles
- College of Letters & Science Distinguished Honors Faculty Award
- 4 year Senior Fellowship with IRH
Sarah Wells
- Recipient of Vilas Associate Award, which recognizes “new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance.”
Students
2021
PhD student Andrew Thomas has been awarded a Dana-Allen Fellowship from the IRH for 2021-22.
Graduate student Jarrett Chapin has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Predoctoral Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society (APS) Library & Museum.
PhD student Diego Corona is the recipient of a HEX award by the Center for the Humanities.
2020
Evanka Annyapu, Julie Buskirk, Veronica Hayes, and Andrew Kressin selected for the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award. The award provides funds for both students and faculty collaborators.
Literary Studies graduate student Shuta Kiba received this year’s Cornell School of Criticism and Theory scholarship.
Composition & Rhetoric graduate student Kassia Shaw received a HEX Award (Humanities Exposed) from the Center for the Humanities. Her project will share the stories that inspired a Ho-Chunk ceramic mural installation—Maa Wakąčąk, “Sacred Earth”—recently unveiled on the Great Sauk State Trail.
Emily Loney won a Capstone Award, given to TAs “who have performed as outstanding teachers throughout their UW-Madison tenure.” Erica Kalnay was given the Exceptional Service award for TAs who, “in addition to their regular duties, perform exceptional service related to the educational mission of their department and our university.” Emily Shetler, a graduate of our MFA program now in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, won an Innovation in Teaching Award.