Faculty Awards
Gülru Çakmak
2016-2017 Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Walter Denny
2015 Lifetime Achievement Award, American Friends of Turkey, Washington DC
2013-14 Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
2012 George Hewitt Myers Lifetime Achievement Award, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC
2012 Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Medal
2007 University Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Research and Creative Activity, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst
2006 University Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
2003 University Distinguished Academic Outreach Award, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
2003 Chancellor’s Medal, Distinguished Faculty Lecture, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
2003 Joseph V. McMullan Medal, Near Eastern Art Research Center, New York
1996 Education Award, American Turkish Council, Washington, DC
1984-85 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship
1966-67 Fulbright Fellowship (Turkey)
Sonja Drimmer
2020 Historians of British Art, 2020 Awards for Books Published in 2018: Highly Commended for
Exemplary Scholarship for a Single-authored Book with a Subject before 1600
2020 HFA Research Grant, UMass Amherst
2019-2020 National Humanities Center, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellowship
2019-2020 Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Mid-Career Fellowship (declined)
2019 Medieval Academy of America/CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching
2019 College Outstanding Teacher Award, UMass Amherst
2017-2018 Faculty Research Grant/Healey Endowment Grant, UMass Amherst
2017-present Senior Fellow, The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
2017 Kress Research and Publication Grant, International Center of Medieval Art
2017 Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Publication Grant
2017 College Art Association Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant
2016 Neil Ker Memorial Fund Grant, British Academy
2015-2017 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School, University of Virginia
2015 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend
2015 Richard III & Yorkist History Trust History Prize
2014 Short-Term Fellowship, Bibliographical Society of America
2014 Erika and Kenneth Riley Fellowship, The Huntington Library
Ximena Gómez
2020 Maureen Ahern Doctoral Dissertation Award in Colonial Latin American Studies (triennial) from Colonial Section of
the Latin American Studies Association
2020 Traveling Research Seminar on Afro-Latin American Art, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Harvard University
2020 Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement
2019 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan
Karen Kurczynski
2019-2020 College Outstanding Teaching Award
Laetitia La Follette
2020-2021 PI, NEH block grant to the Archaeological Institute of America (RJ-269493-19, $564,418.00 for period
9/1/2019 – 9/1/2021)
2019-2024 PI, Kress Foundation Grant for five-year funding of the AIA series, Selected Papers in Ancient Art and Architecture
2020-2019 Open Education Initiative Grant for revision of e-Text, A History of Art for the 21st Century (University Libraries and
Provost’s Office, UMass Amherst)
2014-15 Innovative Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching and Office of Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts
Amherst.
2004-2005 Professional Development Grant in Instructional Technology, President’s Office, University of Massachusetts
Amherst
2002-2003 Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2002-2003 Large lecture course redesign grant, Davis Foundation (New England), to incorporate interactive technology into
the teaching of the one-semester survey of the History of Art (with Profs. Denny, Schmitter)
1998-2002 U.S. Dept. of Education/FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education) Grant for the development
of an interactive, multimedia online resource for introductory Art History students. Grant P116B980674
1995-1997 Grant PI: Director-Coordinator and Principal Investigator, “A History of Art for the 21st Century,” a multimedia
digital project for introductory Art History students funded by Five Colleges, Inc through the Pew Charitable Trusts
1994-1995 Lilly Fellowship, Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nancy Noble
2018-2019 Distinguished Teaching Award
Monika Schmitter
2018 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for Study in Venice and the Veneto
2018 Renaissance Society of America, Research Fellowship
2012 Visiting Senior Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2011 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant, Renaissance Society of America
2011 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for Study in Venice and the Veneto
2004 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for Study in Venice and the Veneto
2000-2001 Villa I Tatti Fellowship, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy
2000-2001 Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, (declined).
2000 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for Study in Venice and the Veneto
2000 Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Lecture Program Grant
1999-2000 Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of Massachusetts
