Awards and Recognitions

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. 

Architecture's Stephen Schreiber was recently awarded the National Council of Architectural Registration Board's highest honor, the President’s Medal.

MassLive profiles Professor Amilcar Shabazz, who has spent the last 30 years fighting for reparations.

Associate Professor of Art Mahwish Chishty was named one of the six recipients of the 2024 Kala Art Institute Fellowship, an artist residency award.