SLCL professors and graduate students are consistently being recognized across campus for their hard work, innovation, and commitment to student success.
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Campus Awards
Marjorie Roberts and Robert W. Schaefer Professors in Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Silvina Montrul (Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics)
- Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature)
LAS-OVCDEI Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate
This highly competitive award, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, provides 12 selected faculty participants with the opportunity to design or revise syllabi or course materials. The 14-week program engages faculty in hybrid experiential learning and teaches instructors practical tools for designing courses geared towards diverse populations of students.
- Anna Hunt (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
Graduate Student Leadership Award
This campuswide award is sponsored by the Graduate College and recognizes graduate students who have exhibited outstanding services that has positively impacted the campus and wider communities.
- Luis David Gaytán-Soto (Spanish & Portuguese)
European Union Center Title VI Award
The Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) Program at the European Union Center provides grants to establish, strengthen, and operate language and area studies centers that serve as national resources. Webster's award will be used to develop a multilingual European cities course for Spring 2024.
- Charles Webster (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
External Awards
- Sarah Clark (Linguistics): Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS) Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper "The Veteran Dialect: Discourses of Identity in the Liminal Space between Institutions and Ideologies"
- Katherine Kwak (Linguistics): Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
- Mithilesh Mishra (Linguistics): Service to Hindi Award from the International Hindi Association
- Silvina Montrul (Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics): Ranked in Top 2% of World Scientists according to Stanford-Elsevier Ranking
- Sergei Motov (Slavic Languages & Literatures): Awarded Judge's Choice in NYU Jordan Center’s Graduate Student Essay Competition for his essay, "Dostoevsky’s Most Stubborn Bureaucratic Type: Titular Councilor, Eternal Or Former?"
- Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature): NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Award for her collaborative translation of “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union"
- Brian Yang (Slavic Languages & Literatures): Elected as the sole student board member of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, starting in January 2024
Campus Awards
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
This award recognizes sustained excellence in and innovative approaches to undergraduate teaching and contributions beyond classroom instruction that have an overall positive impact on undergraduate student learning.
- Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Campus Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award
This award recognizes outstanding academic leadership and vision by an executive officer within a college or campus unit. The recipient will be an exemplar of effective leadership who has led diverse groups through strategic improvements within her/his unit or campus.
- Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish & Portuguese)
Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award: Advocacy for LGBTQ Affairs
This award is presented annually to University of Illinois faculty and staff by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in four categories. Named in honor of the past assistant chancellor and director of what is now the Office for Access & Equity, this award reflects the commitment to human rights advocacy and diversity that defined the leadership of Larine Y. Cowan for nearly 20 years at Illinois.
- Ky Merkley (Classics)
Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program Fellowship
The Academic Leadership Program was created by the provosts of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities, to develop the leadership potential of participating faculty, with particular emphasis on enriching the diversity of leadership in BTAA institutions. The Office of the Provost selects up to five individuals from across campus to participate in the ALP.
- Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, in fulfillment of its mission, is devoted to excellence in undergraduate teaching. The purpose of the award program is to reward and honor the college's best tenure system faculty.
- Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants
- Katie VanDyne (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Academic Professional Award
The LAS Academic Professional Award identifies and honors selected academic professionals for their outstanding contributions to the college. The program is sponsored by alumni and friends of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
- Brenden Carollo (Spanish & Portuguese)
Conrad Humanities Scholars Award
The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years.
- Xun Yan (Linguistics)
Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Award
The LEAP Award is granted to faculty early in their career based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the College of LAS. Scholars hold the title for two years.
- Brett Kaufman (Classics)
- Krystal Smalls (Linguistics)
LAS-OVCDEI Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate
This highly competitive award will provide 16 selected faculty participants with a one-course release in Spring 2023 to help with the design or revision of syllabi or course materials to be taught for the academic year of 2023-2024. The 14-week program engages faculty in hybrid experiential learning and teaches instructors practical tools for designing courses geared towards diverse populations of undergraduate and graduate students.
- Julie Gaillard (French & Italian)
- Aurore Mroz (French & Italian)
Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship
These fellowships help outstanding graduate students complete the doctoral degree by providing a one-year stipend of $25,000 along with waivers of tuition and various fees. In addition, the fellow will receive partial payment of the graduate student health insurance fee per semester as well as basic dental and vision coverage. The intent of the fellowship is to help students complete their dissertations.
- Felix Ayanbode (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
- Zack Hader (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellowship
These fellowships are granted to Illinois faculty and graduate students who spend the year engaged in research and writing. There will be no research theme for the year; applicants were invited to propose projects investigating any subject.
HRI Campus Faculty Fellowship
- Anna Torres-Cacoullos (Spanish & Portuguese)
HRI Campus Graduate Student Fellowship
- Ky Merkley (Classics)
- Gisabel Leonardo (Spanish & Portuguese)
HRI Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
These fellowships are designed to help faculty maximize the summer for research in service of their ongoing professional development.
- John Levi Barnard (Comparative & World Literature)
- Eric Calderwood (Comparative & World Literature)
- Salvatore Callesano (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Pilar Martínez-Quiroga (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Anna Mendoza (Linguistics)
HRI Research Prize
These prizes recognize outstanding humanities research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- John Levi Barnard (Comparative & World Literature)
- Julie Gaillard (French & Italian)
Lemann Center Faculty Research Grant
These grants are available to full-time University of Illinois faculty members who are developing research about Brazil.
- Silvina Montrul (Spanish & Portuguese)
Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Graduate Student Fellowships
Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowship
This grant is designed to support student field research and promote opportunities for joint experimentation, tool-building, and knowledge exchange on the institutional level.
- Sara Castro Cantú (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Danielle Massulo Bordignon (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Gerson Morales Pérez (Spanish & Portuguese)
Tinker Summer Fellowship
This grant is designed to provide graduate students with their initial exploratory experience in developing independent research projects and conducting field research in Latin America.
- Lorena Alarcón (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Eunyoung Yang (Spanish & Portuguese)
Whitten Fellowship
These awards are intended primarily to support graduate students at the master’s or doctoral level wishing to conduct research in Latin America.
- Sergio Mora Moreno (Spanish & Portuguese)
Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES) Karen Wold Level the Learning Field Award
This award was created in memory of Karen Wold, an access specialist at DRES who spent her career working to make the learning field more level and accessible. The purpose of the award is to identify exemplary faculty and staff who are advocating and/or implementing instructional strategies, technologies, and disability-related accommodations which afford students with disabilities equal access to academic resources and curricula.
- Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish & Portuguese)
External Awards
- Ping-Lin Chuang (Linguistics): 2022 Duolingo English Test Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation “What makes an argument effective? Triangulating task characteristics, essay performances, and rating processes in an L2 integrated argumentative writing test"
- Aylin Coşkun Kunduz (Linguistics): National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF DDRIG) for her dissertation titled, "How flexible are grammars past puberty? Evidence from heritage language returnees"
- Florencia Henshaw (Spanish & Portuguese): 2022 Distinguished Service Award in the category of Exemplary Teaching and Training, granted by the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ICTFL); Excellence in Teacher Development Award, granted by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Teacher Development Special Interest Group
- Maxine Katz (Religion): 2023 National Security Program (NSP) David L. Boren Fellowship to study Hindi through the South Asian Flagship Languages Initiative (SAFLI)
- Daniel Nabil Maroun (French & Italian): Lead faculty of the highly competitive grant awarded to the Department of French & Italian by the French Embassy and the FACE Foundation as part of the initiative "French in Higher Education" for the proposal "Professionalizing French in Illinois: Empowering French and Francophone Studies"
- Danielle Massulo Bordignon (Spanish & Portuguese): Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowship through the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies for her project, “Insurgent Allegory: Revising Literary Style in Authoritarian Brazil”
- Mithilesh Mishra (Linguistics): International Hindi Association Service to Hindi Award for his "extraordinary contribution and selfless dedication to Hindi"
- Mara Wade (professor emerita, Germanic Languages & Literatures): Renaissance Society of America Digital Innovation Award for 2022-23 for her team's digital project, Emblematica Online (Mara R. Wade, principal investigator; Timothy W. Cole and Myung-Ja Han; Hands Brandhorst; Thomas Kilton; and Thomas Stäcker)
- Craig Williams (Classics): Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellowship in the Humanities Council and Department of Classics at Princeton University for his pathbreaking research, which brings together a wide range of Indigenous writers from across North America, from the seventeenth century to today, who have engaged with ancient Greece and Rome in a Native voice, cumulatively contributing to Indigenous survivance on this continent.
- Peter Wright (Slavic Languages & Literatures): Selected as 2023-24 Fulbright Scholar for Croatia to conduct research for his book project, "The Business of Solidarity"
Campus Awards
Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) Award
The CAPE Award is designed to recognize demonstrated excellence by academic professional staff on the Urbana campus. Nominees are judged on three criteria: work, personal, and professional contributions.
- Florencia Henshaw (Spanish & Portuguese and Foreign Language Teacher Education)
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
The Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching recognizes sustained excellence and innovative approaches in undergraduate teaching and contributions beyond classroom instruction that have an overall positive impact on undergraduate student learning. Honorees are represented in three employee categories – faculty, specialized faculty and teaching assistants.
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Faculty
- Daniel Leon (Classics)
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Instructional Staff
- Raquel Castro Goebel (Spanish & Portuguese)
Campus Award for Excellence in Online & Distant Teaching
This award honors excellence and innovation in online and/or distance teaching; contributions to student learning through innovative uses of technology; creativity in course development and instruction; and for having had a positive influence on the quality, extent, and development of a department’s online/distance program.
- Florencia Henshaw (Spanish & Portuguese and Foreign Language Teacher Education)
Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award
This award recognizes instructors for outstanding performance both in and out of the classroom. Honorees have demonstrated a commitment to teaching and to students in every capacity of their experience at Illinois.
- José Ignacio Hualde (Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics)
Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award
This award recognizes outstanding academic leadership and vision by an executive officer within a college or campus unit. Recipients are exemplar of effective leadership who have led diverse groups through strategic improvements within her or his unit or campus.
- Antony Augoustakis (Classics)
University Scholar
The University Scholars program aims to recognize outstanding members of the faculty and to provide each with a funding allocation to enhance her or his scholarly activities. University Scholar awards represent recognition of the recipient’s excellence and the university’s commitment to fostering outstanding people and their work.
- Tania Ionin (Linguistics)
LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, in fulfillment of its mission, is devoted to excellence in undergraduate teaching. The purpose of the award program is to reward and honor the college's best tenure system faculty.
- Daniel Leon (Classics)
LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Instructional Staff
- Raquel Castro Goebel (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants
- Ky Merkley (Classics)
- Carmen Gallegos Perez (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Academic Professional Award
The LAS Academic Professional Award identifies and honors selected academic professionals for their outstanding contributions to the college. The program is sponsored by alumni and friends of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
- Jeeyoung Ha (East Asian Languages & Cultures)
Conrad Humanities Scholar
The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years.
- Dov Weiss (Religion)
LAS Program of Faculty Study in a Second Discipline
This fellowship offers faculty members an opportunity to extend their scholarship through study in a separate field. Up to two fellowships are awarded to faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who wish to receive training in digital methods to advance their scholarship, with possible implications for curricular development.
- Silvina Montrul (Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics)
Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellowship
These fellowships are granted to Illinois faculty and graduate students who spend the year engaged in research and writing. This year’s theme is “Un/Doing.”
- Amanda Smith, “21st Century Black Beauty Resistance: Collectivism, Individuality, and In/Visibility in Black French Women’s Body and Hair Representations” (French & Italian)
HRI Mellon Pre-Doctoral Public Humanities Fellowship
This fellowship is an opportunity for a doctoral student in the humanities to be in residence with HRI’s Odyssey Project and to pursue a public humanities-related project under the guidance of a designated faculty mentor.
- Eva Kuras, “Crossing Paths” (Comparative & World Literature)
HRI Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
These fellowships are designed to help faculty maximize the summer for research in service of their ongoing professional development.
- Eda Derhemi, “Endangered Arvanitika in Zeriki, Greece” (French & Italian)
Center for Advanced Study Associate
CAS Associates are tenured faculty members whose proposals are selected in an annual competition. These appointments grant one semester of teaching release time in order to pursue an individual scholarly or creative project. With the professors and fellows, they form the core of the Center for Advanced Study Community.
- Rachel Harris (Comparative & World Literature)
External Awards
- Ping-Lin Chuang (Linguistics): 2022 Summer Research and Measurement Sciences (RMS) internship program at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, New Jersey; Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT) Best Presentation Award for her paper, "Argumentation structure and quality as validity evidence for integrated writing assessment"
- Tyler Dolan (Slavic Languages & Literatures): Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Summer Dissertation Writing Grant for summer 2022
- Carolyn Fornoff (Spanish & Portuguese): Best Article in the Humanities by the Latin American Studies Association's (LASA) Mexico section for her article, "Planetary Poetics of Extinction in Contemporary Mexican Poetry," published in Mexican Literature as World Literature (2021)
- Rachel Harris (Comparative & World Literature) and Dan Chyutin: The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies - Best Book Award for Casting a Giant Shadow: The Transnational Shaping of Israeli Cinema
- Florencia Henshaw (Spanish & Portuguese and FLTE): Postsecondary Award for Excellence in World Language Instruction Using Technology, granted by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in collaboration with the Faculty Development Programs of Cengage Learning and the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT); Excellence in Online Language Teaching Award for Higher Education, granted by ACTFL and Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO); elected president of the downstate Illinois chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
- Lilya Kaganovsky (Slavic Languages & Literatures): National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer stipend for her project, "Fifty Years of Soviet Women’s Cinema, 1929–1979"
- Daniel Maroun (French & Italian): Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award from Contemporary French Civilization, published by Liverpool University Press, for his essay, “Do Black Lives Matter in France? Agency, Culpability and Police Brutality"
- Emanuel Rota (French & Italian): France@Illinois Center of Excellence Grant for his research project, "Understanding Narratives of Racialization in the Mediterranean” in collaboration with a transatlantic team of researchers
- Sara Saez-Fajardo (Spanish & Portuguese) elected communications/professional development coordinator of the downstate Illinois chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
- Tricia Thrasher (French & Italian and SLATE): Network of Modern Language Teacher Associations (NFMLTA) Dissertation Support Grant to work on her dissertation, "Saying ‘Au Revoir’ to Anxiety in a Heartbeat: The benefits of Virtual Reality for Language Learning"
- Xun Yan (Linguistics): Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) Essentials New Scholar Award; 2022 TOEFL Committee of Examiners (COE) Research Grant from Educational Testing Service for the proposal, “Comparing the use of the English proficiency test scores in higher education admissions” in collaboration with Rurik Tywoniw (EPT Coordinator)
- Zsuzsanna Fagyal (French & Italian and SLATE): NSF & Amazon FAI Research Grant to work on inclusive speech recognition: “A New Paradigm for the Evaluation and Training of Inclusive Automatic Speech Recognition,” in collaboration with M. Hasegawa- Johnson (PI, UIUC), N. Dehak, P. Zelasko, and L. Moro-Velazquez (co-PIs, John Hopkins University)
Campus Awards
Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate & Professional Teaching
- Tania Ionin (Linguistics)
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Faculty
- Ryan Shosted (Linguistics)
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Teaching Assistants
- Jone Vicente Urrutia (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Ander Beristain (Spanish & Portuguese)
Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award
- Salvatore Callesano (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- Ryan Shosted (Linguistics)
LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Instructional Staff
- Pilar Martínez-Quiroga (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants
- Jone Vicente Urrutia (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Ander Beristain (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Dean’s Fellow for Faculty Development
- Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Academic Professional Award
- Melanie Waters (Spanish & Portuguese)
Conrad Humanities Scholars
- George Gasyna (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature)
- Jill Jegerski (Spanish & Portuguese)
- François Proulx (French and Italian)
LAS Named Scholar Positions
Helen Corley Petit Scholar (for early career scholars)
- John Barnard (Comparative & World Literature)
LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar
- Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
LAS Alumni Distinguished Professorial Scholar
- Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish & Portuguese)
Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar Award
- Tania Ionin (Linguistics)
Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Award
- Carolyn Fornoff (Spanish & Portuguese)
Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellowships
HRI Campus Faculty Fellows
- John Barnard, “The Edible and the Endangered: Food, Empire, Extinction” (Comparative & World Literature)
HRI Campus Graduate Student Fellows
- Megan Gargiulo, “Race, Gender, and Recogimiento: Discursive Representations of Space, Sexuality, and Productivity in Late Colonial Mexico” (Spanish & Portuguese)
- LeiAnna X. Hamel, “Undisciplined Bodies: Deviant Female Sexuality in Russian and Yiddish Literatures, 1877–1929” (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
HRI Prize for Research in the Humanities
- Krystal Smalls (Linguistics)
- John Barnard (Comparative & World Literature)
Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Fellowship
- Clara Bosak-Schroeder (Classics)
Center for Advanced Study Professorship
- Harriet Murav (Slavic)
Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Fellowships
Senior Research Fellowship
- Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish & Portuguese)
Junior Research Fellowship
- Julie Gaillard (French & Italian)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Faculty Fellowship
- Silvina Montrul (Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics) in collaboration with David Dubin (School of Information Sciences) and Todd Nicholson (NCSA)
Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (ISEE) Teaching Sustainability Fellowship
- Roderick Wilson (East Asian Languages & Cultures)
- Eman Saadah (Linguistics)
Diversity and Social Justice Education Outstanding Graduate Student Award
- Charlotte Prieu (French & Italian and Linguistics)
Humanities Released Time Award
- Xun Yan (Linguistics)
External Awards
- Xiomara Cervantes (Spanish & Portuguese): Latin American Studies Association 2021 Premio Sylvia Molloy for Best Article in the Humanities for her article, “Paz’s Pasivo: Thinking Mexicanness from the Bottom"; 2021 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars)
- Eda Derhemi (French & Italian) and Francesco Ferrari (French & Italian): Literary Translation Award from the Albanian Ministry of Culture and the National Center for Books and Reading for their translation of the Albanian novel, “Mjaltë në teh” by Romeo Çollaku into Italian, under the title, “Miele sul coltello”
- Eider Etxebarria-Zuluaga (Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics): National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award for her dissertation, “Subject Expression in Spanish in Contact with Basque and in Spanish-Basque Bilingualism"
- Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish & Portuguese): National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for his project, “Visually Impaired Filmmakers and Technologies of Sight”
- Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages & Literatures): Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association's Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for her book, "David Bergelson’s Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity"
- Daria Semenova (Slavic Languages & Literatures): 2021 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Summer Dissertation Writing Grant in support of her project, “At Home and Away: Community Belonging in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Adventure Fiction, 1918-1960"
- Tricia Thrasher (French & Italian and SLATE): Duolingo Research Grant in Language Learning with Technology for her thesis, "Social Virtual Reality’s Impact on Language Anxiety and Interpersonal Oral Production by French Learners"
- Anna Tsiola (Linguistics): National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
Campus Awards
Campus Award for Excellence in Instruction
- Brian Walters (Classics)
Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award
- Eman Saadah (Linguistics)
Illinois Campus Research Board Award
- Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
University Scholar
- Antony Augoustakis (Classics)
LAS Academic Professional Award
- Florencia Henshaw (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- Brian Walters (Classics)
Conrad Humanities Scholar
- David Cooper (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar
- Javier Irigoyen-García (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholar
- Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez (Spanish & Portuguese)
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Fellowship
- Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish & Portuguese)
IPRH Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
- Hanaiya Ahyad (Linguistics & Translation Studies)
- Carolyn Fornoff (Spanish & Portuguese)
IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities
- François Proulx (French & Italian) for “Bourget, the Chambige Affair, and the Queer Seductions of the Novel,” included in his recent book, Victims of the Book: Reading and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France
- Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish & Portuguese) honorable mention for “Staging the Spanish Civil War: History and Re-enactment in Joris Ivens’ The Spanish Earth (1937),” Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies (November 2019)
Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Fellowship
- Michael Dann (Religion)
- Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Junior Research Fellowship
- Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez (Spanish & Portuguese)
“The Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Partnership Grant” Recipient
- Raquel Goebel (Spanish & Portuguese)
President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP)
- Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish & Portuguese) named by U of I President Killeen as member of the President’s Executive Leadership Program
Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global & Transnational Studies at the U of I
- Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature)
External Awards
- Eric Calderwood (Comparative & World Literature): L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize (outstanding book in the area of North African Studies) for Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture (Harvard University Press 2018); Nikki Keddie Book Award honorable mention, Middle East Studies Association (for Colonial al-Andalus); Laura Shannon Prize Silver Medal (for Colonial al-Andalus)
- David Cooper (Slavic Languages & Literatures): 2019 Prize for Best Scholarly Translation for his book, The Queen’s Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts With Other Forgeries of the Czech Revival (Michigan Slavic Publications 2018) from the American Association for Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL).
- Florencia Henshaw (Spanish & Portuguese) named to Editorial Advisory Board for The Language Educator, a publication of the American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL); Conference Attendee Travel Stipend Award for American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) 2020 Annual Conference
- Jack Hutchens (Slavic Languages & Literatures): 2019 "Article of the Year" for his article, "Julian Stryjkowski: Polish, Jewish, queer," published in Canadian Slavonic Papers, from the Canadian Association of Slavists
- Elizabeth Lowe (Translation & Interpreting Studies): Literature Translation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- Silvina Montrul (Spanish & Portuguese): National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Award from the National Institute of Health for her project, “Validating New Measures of Later Language Development with Spanish and English Monolinguals and Bilinguals" in collaboration with Kiel Christiansen (Educational Psychology), Jessica Montag (Psychology), Pam Hadley (Speech and Hearing Sciences) and Xun Yan (Linguistics).
- Armine Mortimer (French & Italian) will receive a Literature Translation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages & Literatures): Prize for the Best Article in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature, and culture (2018-19) from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies for, “’Tis Eighty Years Since’: Panteleimon Kulish’s Gothic Ukraine,” in Slavic Review (awarded in 2020)
- Mara Wade (Germanic Languages & Literatures): 41st president of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), April 2020
- Dov Weiss (Religion): National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer stipend for his book project, “Rabbinic Inferno: Hell and Salvation in Classical Judaism”
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Leianna Xenia Hamel (Slavic Languages & Literatures): Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Summer Dissertation Writing Grant (2020)
Campus Awards
U of I Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities
- Rini Bhattacharya Mehta (Comparative & World Literature and Religion)
- Melissa Bowles (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Stephanie Hilger (Comparative & World Literature and Germanic Languages & Literatures)
U of I Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award
- Joyce Tolliver (Spanish & Portuguese and Translation Studies)
University Scholar
- Luisa-Elena Delgado (Spanish & Portuguese)
Conrad Humanities Scholar
- Melissa Bowles (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Eric Calderwood (Comparative & World Literature)
- Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar
- Lilya Kaganovsky (Comparative & World Literature and Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholar
- Clara Bosak-Schroeder (Classics)
- Xun Yan (Linguistics)
Criticism & Interpretive Theory Junior Research Fellowship
- Clara Bosak-Schroeder (Classics)
Arnold O. Beckman Research Award
- Daniel Leon (Classics)
External Awards
- Hans Hock (Professor Emeritus, Linguistics): Honorary Life Membership, Societas Linguistica Europaea.
- Marianne Kalinke (Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita, Germanic Languages & Literatures): The Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Falcon (government of Iceland’s highest honor)
- Tasha Robles (Spanish): “University Advisor of the Year," Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha, Inc.
- Pilar Martinez-Quiroga (Spanish & Portuguese): Outstanding Article Award, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AASP) research journal, Hispania
- Mara Wade (Germanic Languages & Literatures): Reimar Luest Prize for International Research Cultural Exchange
Campus Awards
LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- Robert Rushing (French & Italian and Comparative & World Literature)
Conrad Humanities Scholar
- John Karam (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Alumni Professorial Scholar
- Silvina Montrul (Spanish & Portuguese)
Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar
- Ariana Traill (Classics)
Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Award
- Eric Calderwood (Comparative & World Literature)
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Faculty Fellowship
- Clara Bosak-Schroeder (Classics)
- George Gasyna (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature)
- Eleonora Stoppino (French & Italian)
IPRH New Horizons Summer Faculty Research Scholarship
- Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
IPRH Research Cluster Grant
- Judith Pintar (Slavic Languages & Literatures) with Randall Sadler (Linguistics)
Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Associate
- Silvina Montrul (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
- Emanuel Rota (French & Italian)
Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Senior Research Fellowship
- Luisa-Elena Delgado (Spanish & Portuguese)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications Fellowship
- Rini Battacharya Mehta (Comparative & World Literature and Religion)
Arnold O. Beckman Research Award
- Melissa Bowles (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Eric Calderwood (Comparative & World Literature)
- Harriet Murav (Comparative & World Literature and Slavic Languages & Literatures)
- Angeliki Tzanetou (Classics)
Center for Language Instruction and Coordination Excellence in Language Instruction Award
- Florencia Henshaw (Spanish & Portuguese)
External Awards
- Jon Ebel (Religion): 2017 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
- Glen Goodman (Spanish & Portuguese): Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship to teach and conduct research at the Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul in Brazil, Spring 2017
- Mara Wade (Germanic Languages and Literatures): Vice President, Renaissance Society of America
- Dov Weiss (Religion): Jewish Book Council’s 2017 National Jewish Book Award for scholarship for his book, Pious Irreverence, Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism
Campus Awards
Campus Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award
- Ariana Traill (Classics)
Campus Distinguished Promotion Award
- Lilya Kaganovsky (Comparative & World Literature and Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Office of the Provost/Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Award for "Humanities and Public Life"
- Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
University Scholar
- Waïl S. Hassan (Comparative & World Literature)
Conrad Humanities Scholar
- Javier Irigoyen-García (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Academic Professional Award
- Ann Abbott (Spanish & Portuguese)
Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Award
- Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Darren Tanner (Linguistics)
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Fellowship
- Luisa-Elena Delgado (Spanish & Portuguese)
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Research Cluster Grant
- Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Fellowship
- Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish & Portuguese)
Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Associate
- Craig Williams (Classics)
Unit for Criticism & Interpretative Theory Junior Faculty Fellowship
- Eric Calderwood (Comparative & World Literature)
Research Board Award
- Lilya Kaganovsky (Comparative & World Literature and Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Medical Scholars Program Advisory Committee Outstanding Advisor of the Year
- Stephanie Hilger (Germanic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature)
External Awards
- Antony Augoustakis (Classics): Ovatio Award, Classical Association of the Middle West and South; Langan Professorial Scholar, 2016-2019
- Roxana Girju (Linguistics): Best Paper Runner-up Award, IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2017; “Best of ACII" and "Best Student Paper" Awards, International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2017
- Raquel Goebel (Spanish & Portuguese): Best Education Initiative, Association of Teachers of Portuguese (AOTP)
- Glen Goodman (Spanish & Portuguese): Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, Summer 2017
- Stephanie Hilger (Germanic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature): 2016 Goethe Society of North America Essay Prize
- Lilya Kaganovsky (Comparative & World Literature and Slavic Languages & Literatures): Visiting Fellow, University College, University of Oxford, UK, Fall 2016
- Marcus Keller (French & Italian): Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques, French Cultural Ministry
- Robert Rushing (French & Italian and Comparative & World Literature): American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Film/Media Book Prize for Descended from Hercules (2016)
- Mara R. Wade (Germanic Languages & Literatures): National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Newberry Library, Chicago 2016-2017; Recipient, Patricia H. Labalme Fellowship, in collaboration with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, from Renaissance Society of America, for research in Venice, Italy
Campus Awards
Conrad Humanities Scholar
- Jonathan Ebel (Religion)
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Language Pedagogy Reading Group Award
- Jeeyoung Ahn Ha (East Asian Languages & Cultures) co-organized with Florencia Henshaw (Spanish & Portuguese)
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Award for Best Faculty Research
- Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish & Portuguese)
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Fellowship
- Eric Calderwood (Comparative & World Literature)
Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Fellowship
- Harriet Murav (Comparative & World Literature and Slavic Languages & Culture)
Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Senior Research Fellowship
- Eleonora Stoppino (French & Italian)
Arnold O. Beckman Research Award
- Glen Goodman (Spanish and Portuguese)
Illinois Campus Research Board
- Glen Goodman (Spanish and Portuguese)
External Awards
- Antony Augoustakis (Classics): Society for Classical Studies Teaching Excellence Award (2016)
- Roxana Girju (Linguistics): Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising
- Hans Henrich Hock (Linguistics): Sukumar Sen Memorial Gold Medal for 2015 (awarded May 2016)
- John Karam (Spanish & Portuguese): National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend Award, 2016
- Douglas A. Kibbee: Fulbright Grant for research in France, 2015-2016
- Silvina Montrul (Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics): Co-principal investigator (with Darren Tanner, principal investigator, Linguistics), National Science Foundation Grant, 2015-2017
- François Proulx (French & Italian): National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for 2015
- Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages & Literatures): National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, 2015-2016
- Darren Tanner (Linguistics): Principal investigator (with Silvina Montrul, co-principal investigator, Spanish & Portuguese), National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, 2015-2017
Campus Awards
Helen Corley Petit Scholar
- Javier Irigoyen-García (Spanish & Portuguese)
LAS Conference Grant
- Robert McKim (Religion) co-recipient for “Climate Change and Inequality”
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) 5th Annual Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities
- Craig Williams (Classics)
Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Associate Fellowship
- Antony Augoustakis (Classics)
- Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Celebration of Excellence Award, Computer Science Department
- Corina Girju (Linguistics)
Engineering Council Outstanding Advising Award, College of Engineering
- Corina Girju (Linguistics)
External Awards
- Jennifer Cole (Linguistics): Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing Fellowship, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 2014
- L. Elena Delgado (Spanish & Portuguese): Premio Nacional de Ensayo finalist (National Literature Award, Essay) for Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (2015)
- Jill Jegerski (Spanish and Portuguese): Albert Valdman Award (for outstanding publication in Studies in Second Language Acquisition journal), 2015
- Harriet Murav (Comparative & World Literature and Slavic Languages & Literatures): National Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellowship (jointly with Sasha Senderovich) to translate David Bergelson's Mides-hadin (Judgment), 2014-2015
- David Price (Religion): Herzog August Bibliothek Fellowship, Wolfenbuettel, Germany, Summer 2015
- Robert Tierney (East Asian Languages & Cultures and Comparative & World Literature): IPS International Research Travel Grant for “Research on Nakae Chōmin,” January 2015
- Mara R. Wade (Germanic Languages & Literatures): Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, March 2015
Campus Awards
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- Kirk Sanders (Classics)
Illinois Campus Research Board Award
- Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
University Scholar
- Silvina Montrul (Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics)
Conrad Humanities Scholar
- Tania Ionin (Linguistics)
- Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Dan Shao (East Asian Languages & Cultures)
- Anna Westerståhl Stenport (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
LAS Humanities Teaching Excellence Award
- Kirk Sanders (Classics)
LAS Academic Professional Award
- Robert Jenkins, (visiting professor, Germanic Languages & Literatures)
LAS Research Assistantship Award
- Antony Augoustakis (Classics)
LAS Centennial Scholar
- Antony Augoustakis (Classics)
LAS Centennial Fellowship
- Lilya Kaganovsky (Comparative & World Literature)
LAS Faculty Fellowship for Study in a Second Discipline
- Stephanie Hilger (Germanic Languages & Literatures) for book project, “Liminal Bodies: Intersexuality in Literary and Medical Discourse"
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Faculty Fellowship
- Robert Rushing (French & Italian and Comparative & World Literature)
Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Associate
- Marina Terkourafi (Linguistics)
Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Resident Associate
- Dan Shao (East Asian Languages & Cultures)
Unit for Criticism & Theory Senior Research Fellowship
- Lilya Kaganovsky (Comparative & World Literature)
European Union Center Research and Course Development Grant
- ♦ Eda Derhemi (French & Italian) for development of new SLCL course, “Languages of the Mediterranean” (with Zsuzsanna Fagyal, French & Italian, and Marina Terkourafi, Linguistics)
International Program and Studies Travel Research Grant
- Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
External Awards
- Eyamba Bokamba (Linguistics): A. Ronald Walton Award for “Distinguished Service on Behalf of The Less Commonly Taught Languages,” 2014
- Eda Derhemi (French & Italian): Core Fulbright Award for teaching and research in Albania, Spring 2014; U.S. Fulbright Scholar Award, 2013-2014
- Dara Goldman (Spanish & Portuguese): U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language Area Studies Grant (Principal Investigator and Coordinator), 2014
- Tania Ionin (Linguistics): Grant from the British Academy, 2013-2015
- Javier Irigoyen-García (Spanish & Portuguese): 2014 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize honorable mention, for his book, The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain
- Elizabeth Lowe (Translation and Interpreting Studies) and Christopher Higgins: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant for three-week institute, “The Centrality of Translation to the Humanities: New Interdisciplinary Scholarship”, July 2013
- Harriet Murav (Comparative & World Literature): Choice Outstanding Academic Title; American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Book Prize finalist for Music From a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia, 2013
- Elizabeth Oyler (East Asian Languages & Cultures): INTERSECT Grant (2012-2014)
- Bruce Rosenstock (Religion): INTERSECT Grant, 2012-2014
- Dan Shao (East Asian Languages & Cultures): INTERSECT Grant, 2012-2014
- Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages & Literatures): National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends Award, 2014
- Mara Wade (Germanic Languages & Literatures):The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival (co-edited with Sara Smart), Otto Harrassowitz, 2013, Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award from the Newberry Library