Faculty Accomplishments

Travel fellowship from the Linda Hall Library for the project "Curricular Connections: Mapping, Transposing, and Teaching Research Methods in Geology, Geography, and Environmental Science." This fellowship will pay for Caro to travel to the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO in order to utilize specialized materials in support of ongoing work in her liaison areas.

Lauret Savoy was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (2024)

Lauret Savoy was awarded the ASLE Creative Writing Award for her book Trace Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (2017)

Lauret Savoy was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2017)

Forthcoming translation from the French of Catherine Malabou's Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought is the recipient of a 2022 French Voices award.

Awarded the 2012 Meribeth E. Cameron Prize for Scholarship for his stunning achievement as a scholar of cultural and social theory and his ability to open students’ minds.

Awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, on April 26, 2007. The German government recognized Van Handle for her achievements in promoting German language and culture in the United States.

André White was awarded the 8th Annual Quad-L Early Career Research Award by the Department of Psychology at University of New Mexico.

Wuest, J. (2024) Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement (University of Chicago Press, 2023) was granted an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Rachel Carson Prize (Society for the Social Studies of Science).

Pet Projects: Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive was awarded an Honorable Mention Book Award by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers at their triennial convention in Baltimore in November 2021.