Faculty Awards & Honors

• KRISTINA CHEW

  Literature

  Course Design Faculty Fellow, Summer 2020

   

• JANETTE DINISHAK

  Philosophy

  2020. Experiencing social connection: a qualitative study of mothers of nonspeaking autistic children (with Vikram Jaswal, Christine Stephan, and Nameera Akhtar). PLOS One. 

   

• JON ELLIS

  Philosophy

  Winner, American Philosophical Association’s 2020 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest with Francesca Hovagimian: “Are School Debate Competitions Bad for Our Political Discourse?” New York Times, Oct. 12, 2019.

  Philosophy for Children Grant, The Laura & Gary Lauder Family Venture Philanthropy Fund.

   

• RENEE FOX

  Literature

  Online Course Development Award, Summer 2020

   

• JESS LAW

  Linguistics

  Global Classrooms for 2021-22

  Global Engagement Winter Newsletter: Feb 2021
  https://global.ucsc.edu/opportunities/global-classrooms/2021-22-awardees.html
  Awardees will work with their teaching partners at institutions abroad to learn how to re-design their UCSC courses as Global Classrooms, and deliver their Global Classroom courses in AY 2021-22.
  
  LING 180 Structure of Chinese Languages

   

• PHILIP LONGO

  Writing Program

  2020-21 Excellence in Teaching Award

   

• KATE MCQUEEN

  Writing Program

  Professional Development Grant
  To organize and present the panel, “Experiencing Literary Journalism: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Affect, ” International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, May 2020.

  Professional Development Grant
  To present research paper, “Literary Journalism and the Imaginative Appeal of Carceral Space,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication,  August 2020.

   

• MICAH PERKS

  Literature

  Nominated for the Pushcart Prize for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. 

   

• G.S. SAHOTA

  Literature

  Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies

   

• ANA MARIE SEARA

  Languages and Applied Linguistics

  2020-21 Excellence in Teaching Award

   

• AMANDA SMITH

  Literature

  Honorable Mention, José María Arguedas Prize for Best Article Prize, Peru Section, Latin American Studies Association, for: “Sounds of the Baguazo: Listening to Extractivism in an Intercultural Radio Programme from the Peruvian Amazon,”Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, vol. 29, no. 3, 2020, pp. 423-43

   

• ELAINE SULLIVAN

  History

  American Historical Association (AHA) Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History: Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara

   

• JENNIFER TSENG

  Literature

  Notable essay in Best American Essays 2020 for “One Sister Sees X, the Other Sees Y.”

   

• MATT WAGERS

  Linguistics

  AAAS Fellow 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science: Nov 24, 2020
  Recognized “for innovative research extending the methodology of experimental psycholinguistics to investigations of understudied minority languages.”

   

• TIFFANY LYNN WONG

  Writing Program

  Full-Tuition Scholarship Award, Stanford's CCARE (The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education), Scholarship CCT (Cultivating Compassion Training) Teacher Program, 2020-2021

   

• JENNIFER WU

  Languages and Applied Linguistics

  Online Course Development Award for Chinese First-Year Sequence

   

• KAREN TEI YAMASHITA (EMERITA)

  Literature

  2021-2022 Dickson Emeriti Professorship