University of Minnesota Awards
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Distinguished McKnight University Professorship
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McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
- Elaine Auyoung, 2018-2020
- Ray Gonzalez, 1999-2001
- John Watkins, 1995-1997
- Andrew Elfenbein, 1993-1995
- Ellen Messer-Davidow, 1989-1991
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Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education
- Julie Schumacher, 2019
- Katherine Scheil, 2017
- Josephine Lee, 2008
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Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education
- Eric Daigre, 2019
- Dan Philippon, 2017
- Julie Schumacher, 2009
- John Watkins, 2004
- Andrew Elfenbein, 2002
- Josephine Lee, 2002
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President's Award for Outstanding Service
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CLA Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award
- Josephine Lee, 2021
- Rebecca Krug, 2006
- John Watkins, 2005
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CLA Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities
- Nabil Matar, 2017-2020
- Timothy Brennan, 2014-2020
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Talle Family Faculty Research Award
- Amit Yahav, 2019-2020
- Kim Todd, 2018-2019
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CLA Scholar of the College
- Julie Schumacher, 2016-2019
- Katherine Scheil, 2014-2017
- Nabil Matar, 2011-2014
- Ray Gonzalez, 2006-2009
- Ellen Messer-Davidow, 2005-2008
- John Watkins, 2004-2007
- Timothy Brennan, 2003-2006
- Andrew Elfenbein, 2000-2003
- Michael Hancher, 1990-1993
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CLA Dr. Matthew Stark Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Faculty Award
- Ellen Messer-Davidow, 2009
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Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship (since 2005)
- Nathaniel Mills, 2019-2020
- Katherine Scheil, 2019-2020
- Lois Cucullu, 2018-2019
- M. J. Fitzgerald, 2018-2019
- Jani Scandura, 2018-2019
- Nabil Matar, 2014
- Andrew Elfenbein, 2013-2015, 2005
- Ellen Messer-Davidow, 2011-2013, 2009-2011
- M. J. Fitzgerald, 2011, 2006
- Timothy Brennan, 2010, 2006-2007
- Katherine Scheil, 2009-2010, 2007-2008
- Lois Cucullu, 2008-2009
- Andrew Scheil, 2007-2008
- Jani Scandura, 2006-2008
- Lianna Farber, 2005-2007
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Provost’s Imagine Fund for Arts and Humanities
- Lois Cucullu, V. V. Ganeshananthan, 2018-2019
- Katherine Scheil, 2017-2018
- Elaine Auyoung, Nabil Matar, Nathaniel Mills, Jani Scandura, 2016-2017
- Michael Hancher, Scandura, 2015-2016
- Peter Campion, Qadri Ismail, 2014-2015
- Dan Philippon, Scandura, K. Scheil, 2013-2014
- Timothy Brennan, Cucullu, M. J. Fitzgerald, Matar, Scandura, K. Scheil, 2012-2013
- Brennan, Ismail, Scandura, 2011-2012
- Brennan, Ray Gonzalez, Hancher, Ismail, Scandura, Scheil, and Julie Schumacher, 2010-2011
- Brennan, Cucullu, Siobhan Craig, Gonzalez, Ismail, Ellen Messer-Davidow, K. Scheil, 2009-2010
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Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship (since 2005)
- 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
- Ellen Messer-Davidow, fall 2007
- Siobhan Craig, 2006
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Distinguished Educator Award, College of Continuing Education
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Donald V. Hawkins Professor of English
- Elaine Auyoung, 2021-2022
- Rebecca Krug, 2021-2022
- Nathaniel Mills, 2020-2021
- Amit Yahav, 2019-2020
- Kim Todd, 2018-2021
- Andrew Scheil, 2015-2018
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Ruth Christie Distinguished Teaching Award for Faculty in English
- Chris Kamerbeek [lecturer], 2019, 2015
- Elaine Auyoung, 2018
- Eric Daigre [lecturer], 2017
- Andrew Elfenbein, 2016, 2012, 2000
- Josephine Lee, 2014
- Rebecca Krug, 2012
- Siobhan Craig, 2008
- Brian Goldberg, 2006
- John Watkins, 1996
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Book Awards
- 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
- 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
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Fullbright Awards
- Dan Philippon, Fulbright Core Research/Teaching Award, University of Turin and University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy, 2012
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Lifetime Achievement Awards
- Ray Gonzalez, Witter Bynner Prize for Poetic Achievement from the Library of Congress, 2017; Lifetime Achievement Award in Latino Literature from Con Tinta, 2015
- Nabil Matar, Advancement of Sciences Award in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation from the Kuwait Foundation, 2017
- Josephine Lee, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, 2016
- Timothy Brennan, Lifetime Achievement Award from South Asian Literatures Association for Contributions to South Asian Studies, 2014
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- John Watkins, 2015-2016
- Peter Campion, 2011-2012
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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; extended 2016 and 2019
- Qadri Ismail, Mellon Senior Researcher in Residence, Center for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Summer 2011
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National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- 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
- Lois Cucullu, summer 2007, 2005-2006
- Timothy Brennan, summer 2006
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Research & Writing Fellowships
- Lois Cucullu, Modern Studies Association Research Travel Grant, 2018; Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2017; William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Fellowship, UCLA, 2011, and Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2011
- 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
- John Watkins, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2014-2015; Visiting Research Scholar Keble College, Oxford 2014-2015; American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2007
- 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
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Other Awards
- Douglas Kearney, 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