Awards and Recognitions

Jonathan Skolnik has been appointed as co-editor of AJS Perspectives, the magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS).

The linguistics major will study Caddo recordings at the APS and return copies to the Caddo Nation

Philosophy’s Hilary Kornblith to deliver the 2027 Ernest Sosa Prize Lecture, an honor recognizing significant achievement in epistemology. 

Barbara Zecchi's videoessay The Rhythms of Rage won Best Experimental Film at the 2026 Montreal Women Film Festival, its latest international honor.

Regina Galasso and Rebecca Lorimer Leonard received Distinguished Community Engagement Awards from the UMass Amherst Office of Faculty Development.

Pari Riahi has been named the 2025–2026 recipient of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Mid-Career Research Impact Award. 

The College of Humanities and Fine Arts is proud to announce this year's award and fellowship recipients.

Marjorie Rubright has been appointed the next vice president of the Renaissance Society of America, effective July 1, 2026.

Julia Jorati, professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the winner of the 2025 JHP Book Prize.

Department Chair Yolanda Covington-Ward was one of six people and organizations to receive the Council Award of Special Recognition.

Joe Pater, Department of Linguistics Professor and Co-Director of the Computational Phonology Laboratory at UMass Amherst, named 2025 Spotlight Scholar.

Linguist Brian Dillon receives NSF grant to investigate how AI and humans differ in interpreting meaning during language comprehension.