Awards and Recognitions

The 2024 T. S. Eliot Prize was awarded to faculty member, Peter Gizzi.

College of Humanities and Fine Arts alumni Kenneth R. Feinberg ’67, ’02 Hon and Hisao Kushi ’88 were each recognized with awards at the UMass Alumni Honors.

Black Maple Magazine — founded by Provost Professor of Art History Charmaine A. Nelson — has been honored with several new awards.

Peter Gizzi, professor of English, and Crystal Maldonado, director of marketing, have each been named recipients of 2024 Massachusetts Book Awards.

The Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) has awarded Professor of English Rebecca Dingo with the Cheryl Geisler Award for Outstanding Mentor. 

Malcolm Sen, associate professor of English at UMass Amherst, has been named a 2024 Spotlight Scholar.

Four HFA faculty members were selected as part of the Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity Excellence (STRIDE) Faculty Fellowship Program.

Hoang Phan, English, and Angela Willey, women, gender, sexuality studies, have been selected to receive the Mid-Career Post-Tenure (MCPT) Fellowships.

Art historian Charmaine A. Nelson's Black Maple Magazine was recently honored with six awards from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts.

Acclaimed poet and UMass Amherst professor of English Martín Espada has been named the recipient of the Mass Humanities 2024 Governor’s Award in the Humanities.

Regina Galasso, director of the Translation Center, recently won the 2024 Ilse Andrews Service Award from the New England Translators Association (NETA). 

Carey Clouse, professor of architecture and landscape architecture, has received a Fulbright-NSF Arctic Research Grant for the 2024-25 academic year.