Awards

University of Minnesota Awards

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, John Wright, 2013-2014
Timothy Brennan, Cucullu, M. J. Fitzgerald, Matar, Scandura, K. Scheil, 2012-2013
Brennan, Ismail, Scandura, Wright, 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

Recent External 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

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
Patricia Hampl, Milkweed Award for Distinguished Contributions to Literary Culture, 2017
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

Andrew Mellon Foundation

Christopher Pexa, co-PI for Humanities Without Walls Grant, 2017-2018; Mellon Diversity Dissertation Completion and Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University, 2012-2015
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
Qadri Ismail, Mellon Senior Researcher in Residence, Center for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Summer 2011

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
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
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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