Awards

Julie Schumacher, 2021

Megan Finch, 2025-2027
Megan Giddings, 2023-2025
Elaine Auyoung, 2018-2020
Andrew Elfenbein, 1993-1995

V. V. Ganeshananthan, 2022-2025
Douglas Kearney, 2021-2024
Andrew Scheil, 2007-2010

Timothy Brennan, 2025
Julie Schumacher, 2019
Katherine Scheil, 2017
Josephine Lee, 2008

Siobhan Craig, 2024
Brian Goldberg, 2023
Eric Daigre, 2019
Dan Philippon, 2017
Julie Schumacher, 2009
Andrew Elfenbein, 2002
Josephine Lee, 2002

Terri Sutton (department staff), 2018

Dan Philippon, 2022
Josephine Lee, 2021
Rebecca Krug, 2007

Douglas Kearney, 2024-2027
Nabil Matar, 2017-2020
Timothy Brennan, 2014-2020

Julie Schumacher, 2016-2019
Katherine Scheil, 2014-2017
Nabil Matar, 2011-2014
Timothy Brennan, 2003-2006
Andrew Elfenbein, 2000-2003

V. V. Ganeshananthan, 2025

Kathryn Nuernberger, Inaugural Artist-in-Residence program of the Research and Innovation Office (RIO), 2024-2025
V. V. Ganeshananthan, CLA Mid-Career Faculty Research Award 2023-2024
Amit Yahav, Talle Family Faculty Research Award 2019-2020
Kim Todd, Talle Family Faculty Research Award 2018-2019

Katherine Scheil, 2021
Kathryn Nuernberger, 2019
Nathaniel Mills, 2019-2020
Katherine Scheil, 2019-2020
Jani Scandura, 2018-2019
Nabil Matar, 2014
Andrew Elfenbein, 2013-2015, 2005
Timothy Brennan, 2010, 2006-2007
Katherine Scheil, 2009-2010, 2007-2008
Andrew Scheil, 2007-2008
Jani Scandura, 2006-2008
Lianna Farber, 2005-2007

V. V. Ganeshananthan, 2018-2019
Katherine Scheil, 2017-2018
Elaine Auyoung, Nabil Matar, Nathaniel Mills, Jani Scandura, 2016-2017
Scandura, 2015-2016
Peter Campion, 2014-2015
Dan Philippon, Scandura, K. Scheil, 2013-2014
Timothy Brennan, Matar, Scandura, K. Scheil, 2012-2013
Brennan, Scandura, 2011-2012
Brennan, Scandura, K. Scheil, and Julie Schumacher, 2010-2011
Brennan, Siobhan Craig, K. Scheil, 2009-2010

Julie Schumacher, 2025-2026
Megan Finch, 2024
Elaine Auyoung, 2023
V. V. Ganeshananthan, 2019-2020
Kathryn Nuernberger, 2019-2020
Siobhan Craig, 2018-2019
Katherine Scheil, 2017-2018
Amit Yahav, fall 2015
Elaine Auyoung, fall 2014
Jani Scandura, 2008-2009
Siobhan Craig, 2006

Julie Schumacher, 2008

Elaine Auyoung, 2021-2022
Rebecca Krug, 2021-2022
Nathaniel Mills, 2020-2021
Amit Yahav, 2019-2020
Kim Todd, 2018-2021
Andrew Scheil, 2015-2018

Aamina Ahmad, 2025
Brian Goldberg, 2025
Elizabeth Weixel, 2025
Heather Holcombe, 2024
Sruthi Narayanan, 2024
Andrew Scheil, 2024
Ann Tandy-Treiber, 2024
Chris Kamerbeek, 2019, 2015
Elaine Auyoung, 2018
Eric Daigre, 2017
Andrew Elfenbein, 2016, 2012, 2000
Josephine Lee, 2014
Rebecca Krug, 2012
Siobhan Craig, 2008
Brian Goldberg, 2006

V. V. Ganeshananthan, Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, Women's Prize for Fiction, and Asian Prize for Fiction for Brotherless Night, 2024

Aamina Ahmad, Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize from the UK Society of Authors, LA Times Book Prize's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and Best First Novel award from the Writers Guild of Great Britain for The Return of Faraz Ali, 2023, which also was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2022

Douglas Kearney, Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation and CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction for Optic Subwoof, 2023; Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award in Poetry for Sho, 2022

Julie Schumacher, Thurber Prize for American Humor for Dear Committee Members, 2015; Midwest Booksellers Choice for Fiction for Dear Committee Members, 2015; Minnesota Book Award in Young Adult Literature for The Book of 100 Truths, 2007

Andrew Elfenbein, Choice Outstanding Academic Book for Romanticism and the Rise of English, 2009

Andrew Scheil, John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America, for The Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England, 2008; book also received biennial Best First Book Prize (2005) of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS)

Dan Philippon, Fulbright Core Research/Teaching Award, University of Turin and University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy, 2012

Josephine Lee, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Studies Program, 2025; Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, 2016

Nabil Matar, Advancement of Sciences Award in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation from the Kuwait Foundation, 2017

Timothy Brennan, Lifetime Achievement Award from South Asian Literatures Association for Contributions to South Asian Studies, 2014

Peter Campion, 2011-2012

Jessica Horvath Williams, leadership team of Critical Disability Studies, 2024

Josephine Lee, Dan Philippon, and Jani Scandura, Global Midwest proposals via Institute for Advanced Study, 2014

Andrew Scheil, Mellon Foundation Grant: One of three principal investigators on a three-year grant to establish a “Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World” at the University of Minnesota, 2013; extended 2016 and 2019

Josephine Lee, 2019-2020

Nabil Matar, principal investigator, “Shared Cultural Spaces: Islam and the West in the Arts and Sciences,” National Endowment of the Humanities Conference, 2011

Andrew Scheil, 2007-2008

Timothy Brennan, Summer 2006

Rachel Trocchio, Summer 2021

Douglas Kearney, McKnight Artist Fellowship in Poetry, 2022

Timothy Brennan, Camargo Foundation Residence, 2017; Mercator Professorship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2011

V. V. Ganeshananthan, American Academy Berlin Prize Residency, 2017; Human Rights Initiative Fund Faculty Research Award, 2017; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, 2014-2015; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 2014-2015; Yaddo Foundation Fellowship, 2012; MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2012

Kim Todd, Anderson Center Residency, 2016; Mesa Refuge Residency, 2012

Julie Schumacher, PEN/Hemingway Fellowship, 2015; Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency, 2011

Andrew Elfenbein, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2013-2014; American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2005-06; Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2005-06

Dan Philippon, Senior Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany, 2011-12

Katherine Scheil, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship, 2011; Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship, 2007-2008; Folger Shakespeare Library Grant, 2007

Amit Yahav, Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Research Fellowshp, Yale University, 2010

Peter Campion, Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature (Prix de Rome), American Academy in Rome, 2009-2010

Andrew Scheil, Friedrich Solmsen Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, 2008-2009

Liana Farber, Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, ACLS, 2008; Friedrich Solmsen Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, 2007

Nabil Matar, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Research Professor, Paris, June, 2008; British Academy Visiting Professorship, London, February 2006

Jani Scandura, American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2005-2006; Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, 2006

Douglas Kearney, Campbell Opera Librettist Prize, 2021; Best New Opera from the Music Critics Association Of North America, 2021, for Sweet Land (co-librettist); Cy Twombly Poetry Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2019

Nabil Matar, “Building Bridges Award,” Association of Muslim Social Scientists and Alwalid bin Talal Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2012

Peter Campion, Editors Award for Reviewing, Poetry magazine, 2011; Larry Levis Reading Prize, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010; Pushcart Prize, 2008

Josephine Lee, Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans Leadership Award, 2006