The following faculty members and graduate students are among those who have received prestigious recognition and support for their research and publications. A selection of recent awards and accomplishments are listed below.
2022 – 2023
Vasudha Narayanan (Professor, Religion)
Membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences – Religious Studies
Patrick Grey (Undergraduate Student, History and Spanish Major)
The Beinecke Scholarship
Michael Gorham (Professor, Languages, Literatures and Cultures)
NEH Summer Fellowship
“”Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Age of New Media Technology”
NHC Fellowship
“Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Age of New Media Technology”
Sandy F. Chang (Professor, History)
ACLS Fellowship Program
“Across the South Seas: Gender, Intimacy, and Chinese Migrants in British Malaya, 1870s-1930s”
2021 – 2022
Elizabeth Dale (Professor, History and Levin College of Law)
NEH Fellowship
“Marking the Borders of Citizenship: Rights and Intellectual Disability in Twentieth-Century Criminal Law”
Matthieu Felt (Professor, Languages, Literatures and Cultures)
NEH Fellowship
“A New Translation of The Chronicles of Japan (Jp. Nihon shoki)”
Mary Watt (CLAS Associate Dean; Professor, Languages, Literatures and Cultures)
Florida Humanities Greater Good: Humanities in Academia
“Between Hope and Dread: Lorna Goodison’s Dante”
With Elizabeth Coggeshall (Florida State University), Alison Cornish (Columbia University, President of the Dante Society of America), and Carrie Benes (New College of Florida)
UF Department of Linguistics, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and the George A. Smathers Libraries
NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Award
“Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South: Tailoring Education and Research through Natural Language Understanding”
University Press of Florida
NEH Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (#SHARP) award
“Exploring Diverse Stories of America through Humanities Publishing,”
WUFT, UF School of Journalism and Communications
Florida Humanities Broadcasting Hope Grant
Amanda Concha-Holmes and Ryan Vasquez
Alix Johnson (Professor, Anthropology)
Wenner-Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
“Data Fixation: Infrastructure and Industry Where the Cloud Touches Ground”
Jillian Hernandez (Profess, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies)
Getty Scholar in Residence
“Femme of Color Fragments: Femininity as Radical Political Iconography in 21st-Century Art”
Joel E. Correia (Professor, Center for Latin American Studies)
2021 Fulbright Scholar Flex Award
“Building the future: Infrastructure and environmental justice in Paraguay’s Chaco”
Margarita Vargas-Betancourt (Field Librarian, Latin American & Caribbean Special Collections, Smathers Libraries)
2020–2022 RBS-Mellon Cultural Heritage Fellow
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage, Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia
Delia Steverson (Professor, English)
The Institute for Citizens & Scholars Career Enhancement Fellowship
“Race, Disability, and State-Sanctioned Violence in African American Literature”
Fiona McLaughlin (Professor, Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Linguistics)
Fulbright Research Fellowship for Algeria (Spring 2022)
“Vernacular Literacies in Algeria”
Tanya Saunders (Professor, Center for Latin American Studies)
Mamolen Fellowship at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
“Aesticas do Bapho: Decolonizing Affect, Queering Brazilian Artivism and the Politics of Liberation”
Charles Cobb (FLMNH)
National Endowment for the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant – $318,944 Outright
“The Colonial St. Augustine Project: Digitizing 400 Years of Interaction”
Kevin Tang (Professor, Linguistics)
National Endowment for the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant – $349,990 Outright
“Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South”
Joel E. Correia (Professor, Center for Latin American Studies)
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship
“Disrupting the Patrón: Unsettling Racial Geographies in Pursuit of Indigenous Environmental Justice”
Margaret Galvan (Professor, English)
2021–2023 Junior Fellow of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at Rare Book School (RBS)
Kaira Cabañas (Professor, Art + Art History)
National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Visual Studies in Art (CASVA) Senior Fellowship
“Deviant Histories: Radical Psychiatry and Art as Creative Care”
Margaret Galvan (Professor, English)
Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship
“Comics in Movement”
2020 – 2021
Alexandra Cenatus (Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere)
2020 Florida Humanities Community Award Grant
“Conversations in the Neighborhood: Let’s Talk about Food”
Lauren Burrell Cox (Ph.D. Candidate, English)
2020 Florida Humanities Community Award Grant
“Hipp Six Podcast”
Alix Johnson (Professor, Anthropology)
2020 Wenner-Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
“Data Fixation: Placing Digital Infrastructure and Industry in Iceland”
Alix Johnson (Professor, Anthropology)
2020-21 Selection for Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the 21st Century series at the University of California Press
“Data Fixation: Placing Digital Infrastructure and Industry in Iceland”