Faculty and Staff Awards and Honors, 2002-present

External Awards

Actors Project NYC Annual Writing Competition, The

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Feodor-Lynen Postdoctoral Research Grant

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Award of Merit

American Educational Research Association (AERA) Outstanding Dissertation Award in Second Language Acquisition 

American Library Association Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award

American Literary Translator's Association (ALTA) Award 

  • Elizabeth Horan (2004): Nominee, with co-author Doris Meyer, This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo (U of Texas P 2003)

American Society for the History of Rhetoric Dissertation Award

  • Kathleen Lamp (2009): "'A City of Brick': Visual Rhetoric in the Roman Principate"

American Society for the History of Rhetoric Top Paper Award

  • Kathleen Lamp (2011): "Imitation and Parody: Rhetorical Theory and Augustan Rome"

Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) Grant

  • Dan Bivona (2003-2004): "Supporting Development of Freshman Learning Communities" 

Arizona Book Publishing Association Glyph Award for Best Book

  • Laura Tohe (2007): Tséyi’ Deep In the Rock (U of Arizona P, 2005) 

Arizona Book Publishing Association Glyph Award for Best Poetry

  • Laura Tohe (2007): Tséyi’ Deep In the Rock (U of Arizona P, 2005) 

Arizona Book Publishing Association Glyph Award for Best Art/Music/Photography Book 

  • Simon Ortiz (2007): Honorable Mention, Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection (U of Arizona P, 2005) 

Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Project Grant 

Arizona Commission on the Arts Governor's Arts Award

Arizona English Teachers' Association Distinguished Service Award 

Arizona English Teachers' Association Friend of AETA Award

Arizona Historical Society Museum Historymakers Hall of Fame 

Arizona Humanities Council Project Grant

  • Karen Adams (2005-2006): "Southeast Asians in Arizona: Thirty Year Anniversary Oral History and Museum Project" ("Proud Journey Home" Exhibit)

Arizona Humanities Council (AHC) Book Festival Grant

Arizona Humanities Council (AHC) Dan Shilling Public Scholar Award

Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition Gary A. Olson Award

  • Sharon Crowley (2006): for Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism (U of Pittsburgh P, 2006) 

Barrow Street Press Book Prize

  • Sally Ball (2005): Annis Mirabilis (Barrow Street P 2005)  

Beinecke Library H.D. Fellowship, Yale University

Biscuit Prize for Short Fiction

  • Jay Boyer (2005): 2nd place, "Sad Little Stories to Tell"
    Jay Boyer (2004): Finalist, "The Night Mechanic." Anthology of Winners from the Biscuit Competition 2004 (Biscuit Publishing, Ltd / Independent Northern Publishers, U.K.)

Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Literary Award in Fiction

BlackPoet Ventures Angaza Award

Bogliasco Fellowship

Camargo Foundation Residential Fellowship

Canadian Studies Faculty Enrichment Award

Centre for Advanced Study Invited Researcher, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo

Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year

Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study (CCLAS) Postdoctoral Fellowship (funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [SSHRC])

Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study (CCLAS) Research Grant (funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [SSHRC])

City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship

Columbia Law School Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Interdisciplinary Workshop 

Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Outstanding Book Award

  • Sharon Crowley (2008): Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism (U of Pittsburgh P 2006)  

Corporation for National and Community Service AmeriCorps*VISTA Grant

Corpus Christi College Fellowship, England

Creating New Traditions Competition, Montreal

Crouse Emerging Scholar Scholarship in Technical and Professional Writing

  • Mark Hannah (2009-2010)

Crouse Promising Scholar Scholarship in Technical and Professional Writing

  • Mark Hannah (2007-2008)

Culture and Animals Foundation Grant

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Small Grant, Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (HRELP)

  • Robert Mailhammer (2011-2012): "Documentation of Amurdak, an endangered language of Northern Arnhem Land (Australia)"

Field Poetry Prize

Filson Historical Society Fellowship

Francis Ledwidge Poetry Competition (Dublin, Ireland)

Fredonia College Foundation Faculty Fellowship

Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) Grant

Georgia Institute of Technology Class of 1969 Teaching Fellowship

Georgia Institute of Technology Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Award

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Short-term Research Grant

German Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) Doctoral Grant

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship

Go NYC Magazine Editor's Pick

  • Jay Boyer (2005): Space Sluts are Hotties 

Hawthornden Castle Fellowship

Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University

Huffington Post Top 10 Creative Writing Program Websites

Humble Play: Appalachian New Play Festival

  • Jay Boyer (2009): Producer's Choice, for A Case is Never Closed

Huntington Library and Museum Fellowship

Huntington Library Robert R. Wark Fellowship

Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in Fiction

Indiana University Bloomington Peter Cannings Memorial Prize

  • Claire Renaud (2009) 

International Humor Society (IHS) Service Award 

International Society of Anglo-Saxonists "Best Edition" Award

  • Robert Bjork (2009): with R.D. Fulk and Helen Damico for Klaeber's Beowulf, 4th ed. (U of Toronto P, 2008).

International Reading Association Arbuthnot Award 

Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Honor for Book for Older Children

  • Jewell Parker Rhodes (2011): Ninth Ward (Little, Brown 2010)

Jay Fliegelman Excellence in Mentorship Award, Graduate Student Caucus of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 

Knowledge and Human Resources for Innu Language Development Postdoctoral Fellowship (funded through Community University Research Alliance [CURA]/SSHRC)

Knowledge and Human Resources for Innu Language Development Research Grant (funded through Community University Research Alliance [CURA]/SSHRC)

Lamia International Play Competition

  • Jay Boyer (2005): Shortlist, Standardized Tests 

Last Play Standing Series, Chicago IL

  • Jay Boyer (2005): Finalist, A Case is Never Closed  

Latin American Studies Association Premio Iberoamericana Book Award

  • Elizabeth Horan (2002): (trans. w/ Cynthia Margarita Tompkins) No Apocalypse, No Integration: Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America by Martin Hopenhayn (Duke UP).

Living History Award, Phoenix Chapter of The Links, Inc., Phoenix Chapter of Jack & Jill of America, Inc. and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Gamma Mu Boule of Phoenix

MacDowell Colony Fellowship

Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty of Arts Postdoctoral Fellowship 

Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty of Arts Research Grant

Michigan Literary Award

Minnesota Book Award

  • Laura Tohe (2003): Nominee, with Heid Erdrich, Sister Nations: Native American Writers on Community

MIT Comparative Media Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship

Modern Language Association Morton Cohen Award for Edition of Letters

  • Elizabeth Horan (2003-2004): Nominee, (w/ Doris Meyer, eds) This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo (U of Texas P)

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) 5.0 Review Award

Museum Association of Arizona Best Adaptation to Stated Theme Award

National Book Award

  • Alberto Ríos (2002) Finalist, The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body (Copper Canyon P, 2002)

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Affiliate Newsletter Award

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) Ted Hipple Service Award

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Research Initiative Grant

  • Paul Kei Matsuda and Tanita Saenkhum (2011): "The Placement of Multilingual Writers in First-Year Comoposition Courses in U.S. Colleges and Universities: A Nationwide Survey"

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) David H. Russell Award

  • Sharon Crowley (2007): for Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism (U of Pittsburgh P, 2006).

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowship

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute Director

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute Stipend

  • Elizabeth Horan (2010): Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, University of Virginia
  • Angelita Reyes (2004): Human Rights in Conflict, City University of New York

National Science Foundation SGER Collaborative Research Award

  • Karen Adams (2005-2007): Co-PI, “Surviving Katrina and its Aftermath: A Comparative Analysis of Community Mobilization and Access to Emergency Relief by Vietnamese and African Americans”

National Writing Project Grant

National Writing Project English Language Learners Network Mini Grant

National Writing Project State and Regional Networks Grant

Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award 

Next Generation Playwriting Award

  • Jay Boyer (2005): Semi-Finalist, A Case Is Never Closed

New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) Best Translation Prize

  • Elizabeth Horan (2005): (w/ Doris Meyer, eds) This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo (U of Texas P 2003)

New Rocky Mountain Voices One-Act Play Competition, Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts, CO

  • Jay Boyer (2006): Suicide Gal, Won't You Come Out Tonight...

NNEST Member of the Month, NNEST (Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL) Caucus

Northwestern University Simon Blattner Fellowship

Parents' Choice Award

"Passing the Torch" Educational Achievement Award, Paradise A.M.E. Church (Jefferson, GA) 

PEN American Center Beyond Margins Award

PEN Center USA Literary Award in Poetry

  • Norman Dubie (2002): The Mercy Seat Collected & New Poems 1967-2001 (Copper Canyon Press)

PEN Center USA Literary Award in Translation

  • Elizabeth Horan (2004): Finalist, with co-author Doris Meyer, This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo (U of Texas P)

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

  • T.M. "Mike" McNally (2008): Finalist, The Gateway: Stories (Southern Methodist University Press).

Pennsylvania State University Africana Research Center Fellowship

  • Ersula Ore (Fall 2009)

Pennsylvania State University Bunton Waller Fellowship

  • Ersula Ore (2001-2005)

Pennsylvania State University Institute of Arts and Humanities Resident Scholar Award 

Pitt Poetry Series, University of Pittsburgh Press

  • Cynthia Hogue (2004): Finalist, The Incognito Body (Red Hen P, 2006)

Playwrights Theater Plays for the 21st Century Competition

  • Jay Boyer (2008): 3rd place, A Case Is Never Closed

Princeton Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship 

ProLiteracy Worldwide National Book Scholarship Fund (NBSF) Grant

Purdue Research Foundation Research Grant

  • Christina Saidy (Summer 2010)
  • Mark Hannah (Summer 2010)
  • Christina Saidy (Summer 2009)
  • Mark Hannah (Summer 2009)
  • Lee Bebout (2006-2007)
  • Lee Bebout (Summer 2004)

Purdue University College of Liberal Arts Alumni Board Emerging Voice Award

Purdue University Chester E. Eisinger Essay Prize

  • Lee Bebout (2007)

Purdue University Chester E. Eisinger Research Grant

  • Lee Bebout (Summer 2005)
  • Lee Bebout (Summer 2003)

Purdue University Ross Fellowship

  • Christina Saidy (2006-2010)
  • Mark Hannah (2006-2010)
  • Lee Bebout (2002-2003)

Purdue University Special Initiative Fellowship

  • Lee Bebout (2004-2005)

Pushcart Prize

Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

Renaissance Society of America Grant, The 

  • Robert Bjork (1996-2009): "ITER: A Renaissance On-line & CD-ROM Bibliography" 

Residency, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Rhetoric Society of America Book Award

  • Sharon Crowley (2008): Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism

Rhetoric Society of America RSA Fellow

Ringler Fellowship at the Huntington Library

Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, Baylor University

Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence

Ronald McDonald House Charities Excellence in Education Award

Sam Houston State University Enhancement Research Grant

  • Lee Bebout (2010-2011)

School Library Journal "Best Books of 2010"

Smallwood Foundation Research Grant

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award

  • Bambi Haggins (2007)

Southwest Books of the Year, Tucson-Pima Public Library 

Southwest Theatre Association Best New Play Award

  • Jay Boyer (2004): Finalist, A Case is Never Closed

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Symposium Convener

  • Richard Newhauser (2013): "Science, Ethics, and the Transformations of Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries"

Sundress Publications Best of the Net

Ted Decker Catalyst Fund Grant

  • Cynthia Hogue (2010): When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina (UNO Press 2010)

Tempe Human Relations Commission, City of (AZ) Diversity Award

  • Karen Adams (2006): "Proud Journey Home" Exhibit, Community Group/Organization Award

Theresa Enos 25th Anniversary Award, Rhetoric Review

Theatre Brut Festival Competition

  • Jay Boyer (2006): Finalist, for Mannequin and Mirror

Theatre Public Prize for Dramatic Literature

  • Jay Boyer (2005) "Best One Act Play," Wollicott's Traveling Rabbit's Foot Minstrels

21st Century Learning Communities Grant

UCross Foundation Fellowship

U.S. Department of Education, Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program (UISFLP) Grant

  • Karen Adams (2002-2004): "Re-envisioning the Undergraduate Southeast Asian Studies Curriculum"

U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)

  • Mark James (2008-2009): Co-PI, "Border Enforcement Grant: Increasing the effectiveness of commercial motor vehicle safety inspections with enhanced communications and increased English proficiency"

University of Haifa Honorary Affiliated Professor

University of Illinois Department of Communication Outstanding Article Award

  • Kathleen Lamp (2009): for "The Ara Pacis Augustae: Visual Rhetoric in Augustus's Principate." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 39 (2009): 1-24.

University of Illinois Department of Communication Stafford H. Thomas Award

University of Illinois Dissertation Completion Fellowship

University of Iowa Alumni Association Creative Writing Competition 

  • Alleen Pace Nilsen (2004): 2nd Place, non-fiction division "The Cost of Bread in Afghanistan"
University of Iowa Frederick F. Seeley Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship for Teaching and Research
University of Iowa John C. Gerber Award for Excellence in Teaching, General Education in Literature
University of Iowa T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship

University of Maine Norumbega Fiction Award

  • Jay Boyer (2004): Finalist, Comes An Angel: A Novella

University of Munich Doctoral Fellowship Linguistik Intemationales Promotions-Programm
(LIPP)

University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab and Render Art Gallery Visiting Scholar and Artist

University of West Georgia David Bottoms Distinguished Alumni Award

University of Wisconsin-Madison Capstone PhD Teaching Award 

University of Wisconsin-Madison Letters and Science Teaching Fellow Award

University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas International Travel Award

Volkswagen Foundation Research Grant, DobeS-Progamme

  • Robert Mailhammer (2009-2010): "Inyman Kalmu: Lanuages of the Cobourg Region, North Australia" with Linda Barwick, Bruce Birch, Nicholas Evans and Sabine Hong

Wakonse Arizona Fellowship 

William Faulkner-William B. Wisdom Gold Medal

Witter Bynner Poet Translator Residency

  • Cynthia Hogue (2009): for Fortino Samano, co-translated with Sylvain Gallais, co-authored by Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy

Writer's Digest Short-Short Story Award 

Writing Programs Administration (WPA) Best Article Award

  • Maureen Daly Goggin (2007-2008): with Michael Stancliff, for "What's Theorizing Got to Do With It? Teaching Theory as Resourceful Conflict and Reflection in TA Preparation"

Yaddo Residency

Yale Center for British Art Residential Fellowship

University Awards

ASU Alumni Association Faculty Research Award

ASU Alumni Association Faculty Service Award

ASU Alumni Association Faculty Teaching Award

ASU Alumni Association Staff Distinguished Service Award

ASU American Indian Initiatives Office Faculty of the Month

ASU Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Faculty Fellowship 

ASU Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict Hardt-Nickachos Peace Studies Endowment Grant

ASU College of Extended Education Service Partnership Award 

ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Bebbling Family Dean's Distinguished Professorship Award

ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award

ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Excellence in Advising Award

ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Exemplar Employee Award

ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty Grant-in-Aid

ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics Lincoln Teaching Fellow

ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Outstanding Lecturer Award

ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Quality of Undergraduate Education Grant

ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Travel Grant

ASU Commission on the Status of Women Outstanding Achievement & Contribution Award

ASU Department of English Teaching Awards (Writing Programs)

ASU Devils' Advocate Apple Polisher Award for Teaching Excellence and Contributions to the ASU Community 

ASU Faculty Women's Association (FWA) Award for Scholarship and Leadership

ASU Faculty Women's Association (FWA) Distinguished Mentor of Women Award

ASU Foundation Professor

ASU Graduate Scholars of English Association (GSEA) Faculty Mentor Award

ASU Graduate Women's Association Outstanding Staff Mentor

ASU Homecoming Office Decorating Contest

  • Department of English Main Office (2008): 2nd place

ASU Institute for Humanities Research Fellowship

ASU Institute for Humanities Research Jenny Norton Award

  • Elizabeth Horan and Claudia Sadowski-Smith (2008-2009): "Gender, Language, and Visual Culture in 21st Century Comparative Literature" (with Isis McElroy)
  • Angelita Reyes (2007-2008): "The Narrative Prisms of Women and Sustainability" (with Maria Luz Cruz-Torres)

ASU Institute for Humanities Research, Research Cluster Grant

  • Alice Daer (2010-2011): "Friending Facebook: Social Media and the (Re)construction of Self and Other" (with Bambi Haggins)
  • Gregory Castle (2010-2011): "Colonial/Postcolonial (Mis)Recognitions" (with Chouki El Hamel)
  • Elizabeth Horan and Claudia Sadowski-Smith (2009-2010): "Gender, Language, and Performance in 21st Century Comparative Literature" (with Isis McElroy)
  • Elizabeth Horan and Claudia Sadowski-Smith (2008-2009): "Gender, Language, and Visual Culture in 21st Century Comparative Literature" (with Isis McElroy)
  • Angelita Reyes (2007-2008): "The Narrative Prisms of Women and Sustainability" (with Maria Luz Cruz-Torres)
  • Elly van Gelderen (2007-2008): "Cycles of Linguistic Change"

ASU Institute for Humanities Research Seed Grant

ASU Institute for Humanities Research Transdisciplinary Book Award

  • Claudia Sadowski-Smith (2009): Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States
  • David Hawkes (2009): Honorable Mention, The Faust Myth: Religion and the Rise of Representation

ASU Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry 

ASU Katharine C. Turner Chair in English

ASU Katharine C. Turner Fellowship

ASU Last Lecture Series

ASU Latina/o Graduate Student Alliance Rising Eagle Award (with Higher Education Student Association and American Indian Graduate Student Association)

  • Laura Tohe (2007): "Redefining Scholarship: Honoring Others' Voices"

ASU Motorola Great Communities Seed Grant 

  • Karen Adams (2002-2003): "Bridging Generations through Arts and Technology," in association with the Arizona Lao Association
  • James Blasingame, Jr. (2001-2002): "Fees Middle School Writing Center"

ASU Office for Developing Transformational Leaders (ODTL) Leadership Fellow

ASU Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost of the University Faculty Achievement Award 

ASU Parents' Association Professor of the Year Award

ASU Preparing Future Faculty Program Mentor Appreciation Award

ASU President's Award for Innovation

ASU Project Humanities Staff Poetry Contest

ASU Regents' Professor 

ASU Research Allocation Committee Grant

ASU Student Affairs' Tribute to Faculty and Academic Professionals Award

ASU University Career Women Editor of the Year Award

ASU Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing Faculty Exchange Fellowship

ASU Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing Summer Faculty Fellowship

ASU Women's Studies Summer Research Award