Fall 2023 Accolades

Awards

Professor Katherine Scheil's (English) book, Anne-thology: Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare (Broken Sleep Books), was chosen as a Guardian Book of the Year 2023 and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2023.

• Congratulations to Associate Professor Amy O'Connor for receiving the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association's Public Relations Division PRIDE committee for her book The Routledge Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility Communication.

• Congratulations to Associate Professor Adam Saffer, along with former Hubbard School postdoc Yan Qu, for receiving the 2023 Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association's Public Relations Division PRIDE committee for their article, "Issues, Publics, Organizations, and Personal Networks: Toward an Integrated Issue Engagement Model," which was published in the Journal of Public Relations Research. 

• The Hubbard School's Professional Master’s in Strategic Communication Program honored Kathy Tunheim (B.A. ’79) with the inaugural Aluminary Award during the program’s Annual Lecture.

Congratulations to the following faculty recipients of the University's Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award:

• Associate Professor Douglas Kearney (English) 

• Associate Professor Saje Mathieu (History)

Fellowships & Grants

Associate Professor Kathryn Nuernberger (English Languages & Lit) received an Artist-in-Residence award for her project “Katydid Songs and Silent Crickets: Poems in the Grasses."

Congratulations to the following recipients of Human Rights Initiative Research Funds:

• Assistant Professor Emily Winderman (Communication Studies) for their project “Healthcare Under Crisis: Reproductive Justice, Community Storytelling, and Minnesota’s “Safe Haven” Status” 
• Professor Christine Baeumler (Art) and Professor Brenda J. Child (American Studies) for their project “North: Indigenous People and Climate Change Exhibition”

Congratulations to the following Fall 2023 Grant-in-Aid recipients:

• Professor Sinem Casale (Art History), "The Banquet as an Arena of Interaction at the Ottoman Court and Beyond"
• Professor Sophia Beal (Spanish & Portuguese Studies), "A Roof of One’s Own: Feminism and Housing in the Work of Brazilian Women Writers"
• Professor Margaret Hennefeld (Cultural Studies & Comp Lit), "Twenty-First Century Silent Film Culture"
• Professor Lorenzo Fabbri (French & Italian), "We Were Here: A Documentary on the Untold History of Blackness in Renaissance Europe"
• Professor Victoria Vargas (Music), "Amy Levy; Songs of Life and Love"

Awards

Professor Anatoly Liberman's (German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch) most recent book, Take My Word For It: A Dictionary of English Idioms (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), was listed as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2023.

Co-Director of the Center for Writing and Minnesota Writing Project Jasmine Kar Tang received a 2023 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Article Award for her article "Asians Are at the Writing Center" published in Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. 

Awards

Congratulations to the following individuals who were recently honored with the prestigious Award for Excellence in Academic Unit Service. This recognition is part of a trio of awards that celebrate exceptional individuals who have gone above and beyond to strengthen the functioning and climate of their academic units:

• Associate Professor Cawo (Awa) Abdi (Sociology)
• Associate Professor Tracey Deutsch (History)
• Associate Professor Karen Ho (Anthropology)
• Associate Professor Katherine Klink (Geography, Environment, and Society)
• Professor Vanessa Lee (Psychology)
• Assistant Professor Jessica Lopez-Lyman (Chicano and Latino Studies)
• Associate Professor Nathaniel Mills (English)
• Lecturer Erma Nezirevic (Spanish & Portuguese Studies)
• Associate Professor Amy O'Connor (Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication)
• Professor Hooi Ling Soh (Institute of Linguistics)
• Director of Clinical Programs in Audiology Kerry Witherell (Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences)

Congratulations to the following Political Science faculty, recent recipients of awards from the American Political Science Association:

• Professor Emerita Joan Tronto, recipient of the 2023 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, for her book Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. This award recognizes a work of exceptional quality by a living political theorist that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since the original date of publication. 
• Distinguished McKnight University Professor David Samuels, recipient of the Representation and Electoral Systems George H. Hallett Award, for his and Matt Shugart's book Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers: How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior. This award is given to a book published at least 10 years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems. 

Publications & Creative Activities

Associate Professor Douglas Kearney's (English) book Optic Subwoof has won the $10,000 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation. Optic Subwoof, a collection of talks that Professor Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2020 and 2021, also won the 2023 Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. 

Associate Professor Christine Taitano Delisle's (American Indian Studies) book Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam received The 2023 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize. This award, presented by the American Studies Association, was presented for the best first book in American Studies published during 2022. 

Fellowships & Grants

Congratulations to Thomas Sargent Professor Mariacristina De Nardi (Economics) for being elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. Professor De Nardi is among a prestigious group of 11 other economists working in the United States to be elected this year.

Awards

Congratulations to Alicia Hofelich Mohr, research services coordinator at the Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services (LATIS), a recipient of the Research Technical Staff Award. These awards recognize staff for their distinguished service to the University of Minnesota research community and celebrate exemplary leadership that positively impacted their colleagues and advanced the University's mission. 

Congratulations to Sociology Professors Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen, recipients of the 2023 American Sociological Association (ASA)'s Public Understanding of Sociology Award. This award "...honors members who have made exemplary contributions to advance the public understanding of sociology, sociological research, and scholarship among the general public."

Congratulations to Sociology Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Garbes (Sociology), co-recipient of the 2023 American Sociological Association (ASA) Dissertation Award for "Racialized Airwaves: Tracing the sonic color line in the American public radio industry." The dissertation focuses on National Public Radio (NPR) and investigates the tension between the intention of reaching diverse audiences and the reality that NPR centers a white majority in its content, audience, and leadership.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (Sociology) who has been awarded the 2023 Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) Early Career Award in Population Health. This award recognizes significant contributions to population health science by an individual who has received the PhD, MD or a comparable graduate degree no more than ten years before the year of the award.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Michael L. Walker (Sociology), the recipient of The Society for the Study of Social Problems' 2023 C. Wright Mills Award for his book Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail (Oxford University Press). The C. Wright Mills Award, established in 1964, is one of the most prestigious book awards in sociology. 

Congratulations to Professor Gordon Legge (Psychology) for being selected as the 2024 APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award recipient. This award recognizes a member of the Association for Psychological Science for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to applied psychological research. 

The Department of Psychology was ranked fourth globally and third in the US in the latest 2023 Best University Ranking by Research.com. 

Congratulations to PhD alum Ketaki Jaywant (History), winner of the 2021 Sardar Patel Award (which honors the best doctoral dissertation on any aspect of modern India in any U.S. University or academic institution) for her dissertation, "Secularizing Caste: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Anti-caste Politics in Western India."

Publications & Creative Activities

Assistant Professor Danni Gilbert (Music) has published Music Educators Wanted: 10 Essential Qualifications for Success, 2023.

Awards

Doctoral student Andrea Wiglesworth (Psychology) was awarded the Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP) Honored Student Member Award.

Congratulations to the following awardees who were selected for 2023 Research Infrastructure Investment Program awards:

• Advanced Imaging and Visualization Research Associate Samantha Porter (Liberal Arts Technologies & Innovation Services), “Proposal for Funding to Sustain and Enhance Advanced Imaging for the University of Minnesota”
• Associate Professor Eric Shook (Geography, Environment & Society), “Building a Spatial Maker Space in the GeoCommons”

Assistant Professor Jie Ding (Statistics) received the Early Career Program (ECP) award from the Army Research Office (ARO), one of the most prestigious honors bestowed by the Army on outstanding young scientists. 

Fellowships & Grants

Professor Jean O’Brien (History) is one of three new UMN Regents Professors, the highest honor the University of Minnesota bestows on its faculty.

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