Recent External Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Recent external grants, fellowships, and awards by UGA faculty in the humanities and arts (not definitive):

  • Mark Abbe (Lamar Dodd School of Art), Getty Museum ScholarGerda Henkel Stiftung – Funding Initiative Patrimonies grant; Resident Research Museum Scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Nicholas Allen (English/Willson Center), Mellon Foundation grantsNEH: Humanities Access Grant; NEH: Common Heritage Grant; University of Oxford: Astor Visiting Lecturer; National Humanities Center Responsible Artificial Intelligence Curriculum Design Project
  • Chanara Andrews-Bickers (PhD candidate, English), National Humanities Without Walls Career Diversity Workshop Fellowship
  • Lisa Bayer (UGA Press), NEH: Open Book Program
  • Joshua Barkan (Geography), Institute for Advanced Study
  • Tracy Barnett (PhD candidate, History), Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
  • Nora Benedict (Romance Languages), UT-Austin Harry Ransom Center Fellowship
  • Stephen Berry (History), ACLS/MellonDigital Extension Grant; NEH: Public Scholars grant
  • Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor (Mary Frances Early College of Education), NEA: Big Read (multiple); CDC Foundation grant for engaging the arts to build vaccine confidence
  • Mark Callahan (UGA Arts Collaborative), NSF: Innovations in Graduate Education
  • Roxanne Eberle (English), Huntington Library Short-Term Fellowship
  • Rachel Gabara (Romance Languages), NEH: Fellowship; NEH: Summer Stipend
  • Jorge García-Granados (PhD candidate, Romance Languages), Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
  • Katie Geha (Lamar Dodd School of Art), Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts grant
  • Naomi Graber (Huch Hodgson School of Music), Society for American Music: Virgil Thomson Fellowship
  • Diana Graizbord (Sociology), Institute for Advanced Study
  • Timothy Gupton (Romance Languages), Fulbright Scholarship
  • Cindy Hahamovitch (History), Guggenheim Fellowship
  • LeAnne Howe (English), Vision Maker Media grant
  • Sujata Iyengar (English), Partner University Fund/FACE Foundation grant; Folger Shakespeare Library: Short-Term Fellowship
  • Martin Kagel (Franklin College Dean’s Office), Max Kade Foundation grant
  • Aruni Kashyap (English/Creative Writing), NEA: Literature Translation Fellowship
  • Emily Koh (Hugh Hodgson School of Music), Orquesta Sinfónica de Aguascalientes FellowshipCopland House Residency AwardYoung Artist Award – National Arts Council, Singapore
  • Jamie Kreiner (History), Society for French Historical Studies: William Koren, Jr Prize
  • William Kretzschmar (Linguistics), Fulbright Scholarship
  • Peter Van Zandt Lane (Hugh Hodgson School of Music), Charles Ives Fellowship; Music Teachers National Association: Distinguished Composer of the Year Award
  • Isiah Lavender (English), International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship Award
  • Chana Kai Lee (History), Harvard University Warren Center Faculty Fellowship
  • Derrick Lemons (Religion), John Templeton Foundation grant
  • Ari Levine (History), Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants; Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton membership
  • Christian Lopez (Libraries), Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grant
  • Gerald Maa (The Georgia Review), NEA: Grants for Arts Projects
  • Rebecca Hallman Martini (English), International Writing Centers Association: Research Grant
  • Susan Mattern (History), Association of American Publishers: Category Award – History of Science, Medicine and Technology
  • Booker T. Mattison (Entertainment & Media Studies), Broadcast Education Association: Festival of Media Arts – Faculty Best of Competition
  • Barbara McCaskill (English) and Nicholas Allen (Willson Center), Mellon Foundation grant; Henry Luce Foundation grant
  • Emily McGinn (Libraries/DIGI), NEH: Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities
  • Reginald McKnight (English), Pushcart Prize
  • Carolyn Medine (Religion), The Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers
  • Stephen Mihm (History), NEH: Public Scholar Program
  • John Morrow (History), Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing: The Pritzker Literature Award
  • Eric Morales-Franceschini (English), Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Rielle Navitsky (Theatre and Film Studies), George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship
  • Scott Reynolds Nelson (History), Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Scott Nesbit (College of Environment and Design), NEH: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
  • Jennifer Palmer (History), ACLS: Fellowship; NEH: Fellowship; American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant
  • Jordan Pickett (Classics), Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection: Project Grant
  • Rumya S. Putcha (Women’s Studies/Hugh Hodgson School of Music), Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award
  • Susan Rosenbaum (English), NEH: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants; MLA Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship
  • Cassia Roth (History), NEH: FellowshipGilder Lehrman Center Fellowship; Southern Historical Association Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize; American Library Association Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title; Friends of Princeton University Library: Library Research Grant
  • Julie Velasquez Runk (Anthropology), National Humanities Center Fellowship; Wenner-Gren Foundation: Engaged Research Grant
  • David Saltz(Theatre and Film Studies), NEH: Institutes for College and University Teachers
  • Esra Santesso (English), NEH: Summer Stipend; Arts and Humanities Research Council grant
  • Fausto Sarmiento (Geography), Fulbright Scholarship
  • Claudio Saunt (History), NEHHumanities Collections and Reference Resources; 2021 Bancroft Prize; 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award; Ridenhour Book Prize; Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Sidonia Serafini (PhD candidate, English), Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
  • Mi-Ryong Shim (Comparative Literature), Association for Asian Studies: NEAC Korean Studies Grants
  • Rohan Sikri (Philosophy), Research Fellowship – Summer Institute for Chinese Studies, Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh; Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies: Fellowships in Hellenic Studies
  • Janice Simon (Lamar Dodd School of Art), Nineteenth-Century Studies Association President’s Award; Eric Hoffer Book Awards: Category Prize – Art
  • Steven Soper (History), NEH: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
  • Yuanfei Wang (Comparative Literature), Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Scholar Grant
  • Elizabeth Wright (Romance Languages), NEH: Collaborative Research program; NEH: Summer Stipend
  • Timothy Yang (History), Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Japan Research Grant; Hagley Prize in Business History
  • Hyangsoon Yi (Comparative Literature), Research Fellowship – Academy of Korean Studies 
  • Magdalena Zurawski (English, Creative Writing), Fulbright Scholarship