2019-2020 Faculty Achievements and Awards
The University of Georgia faculty in the humanities and arts frequently have great success at winning awards and fellowships from national and international organizations. Here are a few highlights from the 2019-2020 academic year.
A more exhaustive list of recent external grants, fellowships, and awards is available here.
External Fellowships
Joshua Barkan (Geography), Institute for Advance Study – Princeton, NJ, for 2020
Rachel Gabara (Romance Languages), NEH Fellowship for 2020
Diana Graizbord (Sociology), Institute for Advance Study – Princeton, NJ, for 2020
Jennifer Palmer (History), ACLS Fellowship for 2020
Cassia Roth (History), Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowship for May 2021
Timothy Yang (History), Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Japan Research Grant (summer 2019)
External Awards and Honors
Mark Abbe (Lamar Dodd School of Art) was awarded the Gerda Henkel Stiftung – Funding Initiative Patrimonies, 2020, for The Aphrodite−Al-‘Uzzá Conservation Collaborative: Conserving and Presenting Newly Discovered Marble Sculpture at The Petra Museum, Jordan.
Imi Hwangbo (Lamar Dodd School of Art) was one of our five Women to Watch featured in “Paper Routes – Georgia Women to Watch 2020” exhibition opening January 24th at the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (MOCA GA). Women to Watch is an exhibition program, held every two to three years, developed specifically for the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) national and international outreach committees. Each of these exhibitions features emerging and underrepresented women artists from the states and countries in which the museum has outreach committees. The exhibition focuses on the transformation of paper into complex works of art.
Derrick Lemons (Religion) was named a visiting professor at Christ Church, the University of Oxford.
Esra Santesso (English) was awarded an NEH Summer Stipend for 2020 for her project on Representations of Islam and Muslims in Contemporary Graphic Narratives.
Elizabeth Wright (Romance Languages), editor, Bulletin of the Comediantes, 2019 Best Design Award from the Council for Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ)
The University of Georgia Research Awards, sponsored by the nonprofit University of Georgia Research Foundation, recognize outstanding research and scholarship by UGA faculty and graduate students whose bodies of work have gained broad recognition across many disciplines.
2019-2020 UGA Research Award winners in the humanities and arts
Joshua Bynum, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Creative Research Medal
Peter Van Zandt Lane, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Michael F. Adams Early Career Scholar Award
Richard Menke, Department of English, Albert Christ-Janer Creative Research Award
Elizabeth Wright, Department of Romance Languages, Distinguished Research Professor