Awards

Book Awards

Charles Baxter, Minnesota Book Award in Novel & Short Story for There's Something I Want You to Do, 2016
Ray Gonzalez, Minnesota Book Award in Poetry for Beautiful Wall, 2016
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
Charles Baxter, Minnesota Book Award in General Nonfiction for The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot, 2008
Patricia Hampl, Minnesota Book Award in Memoir for The Florist’s Daughter, 2008
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)
Ray Gonzalez, Latino Heritage Award for Best Book of Poetry for The Religion of Hands, 2006

Fulbright Awards

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

Lifetime Achievement Awards

Josephine Lee, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, 2016
Ray Gonzalez, Lifetime Achievement Award in Latino Literature from Con Tinta, 2015
Timothy Brennan, Lifetime Achievement Award from South Asian Literatures Association for Contributions to South Asian Studies, 2014

MacArthur Fellowship

Patricia Hampl, 1990-1995

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

John Watkins, 2015-2016
Peter Campion, 2011-2012
Patricia Hampl, 1988-1989

Andrew Mellon Foundation

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
Christopher Pexa, Melon Diversity Dissertation Completion and Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University, 2012-2015
Qadri Ismail, Mellon Senior Researcher in Residence, Center for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Summer 2011

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

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
Lois Cucullu, summer 2007, 2005-2006
Timothy Brennan, summer 2006

Research & Writing Fellowships

Kim Todd, Anderson Center Residency, 2016; Mesa Refuge Residency, 2012
Julie Schumacher, PEN/Hemingway Fellowship, 2015; Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency, 2011
V. V. Ganeshananthan, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, 2014-2015; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 2014-2015; Yaddo Foundation Fellowship, 2012; MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2012
John Watkins, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2014-2015; Visiting Research Scholar Keble College, Oxford 2014-2015; American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2007
Patricia Hampl, Yaddo Foundation, 2014; Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, 2009
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
Timothy Brennan, Mercator Professorship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2011
Lois Cucullu, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Fellowship, UCLA, July-August 2011, and Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington Library, June 2011
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

Other Awards

Patricia Hampl, Honorary Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), St. Bonaventure University, NY, 2013; Denise Levertov Award, Image magazine, 2012; elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
Nabil Matar, “Building Bridges Award,” Association of Muslim Social Scientists and Alwalid bin Talal Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2012
Charles Baxter, 25th Anniversary Rea Award for the Short Story, 2011; American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit for Short Story, 2007
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

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