Our faculty are consistently recognized for their teaching, research, writing, and excellence in the field. Here are some of the awards the current faculty have received.
Awards
2018
Niall Atkinson
Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring
Wu Hung
College Art Association Distinguished Scholar
2017
Jas' Elsner
Elected Fellow of the British Academy
Cécile Fromont
The Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award
W.J.T. Mitchell
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2016
Charles Cohen
Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring
Wu Hung
Slade Professorship, University of Oxford
2015
Cécile Fromont
American Academy of Religion Prize for Best First Book in the History of Religions
Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Religions for Art of Conversion
Martha Ward
Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Wu Hung
Eighth National Spirit Achievers Award, China Life Magazine
Guanghua Distinguished Scholar of Humanities, Fudan University, Shanghai
2014
Aden Kumler
Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring
Wei-Cheng Lin
Academic Excellence Award, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
W.J.T. Mitchell
Distinguished Teaching Award, College Art Association
2013
Niall Atkinson
I Tatti Prize for Best Essay in the Italian Renaissance by a Junior Scholar
Claudia Brittenham
Meiss/Mellon Author’s Award, College Art Association, for The Murals of Cacaxtla
Aden Kumler
Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
2012
Wu Hung
Elected Member of the American Philosophical Society
National Cultural Heritage Award, One of the Ten Best Books on Art and Archaeology, for Art of the Yellow Springs
2011
Matthew Jesse Jackson
Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Robert Motherwell Book Award, The Dedalus Foundation
Aden Kumler
Medieval Academy Book Subvention to support the publication of Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England
Christine Mehring
Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring
Wu Hung
The Best Exhibition of the Year-the Fifth AAC Art Award (for the exhibition A Second History at Guangdong Art Museum in 2010)
2010
Darby English
Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Tom Gunning
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Matthew Jesse Jackson
Epson Fondazione Antonio Ratti Prize for Artistic Research, as Our Literal Speed
2007
Martha Ward
Future Faculty Mentorship Award
Wu Hung
Outstanding Book Award, Association of American University Presses (AAUP), for Chinese Sculpture
Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring
Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2006
W.J.T. Mitchell
Gordon J. Laing Prize for What Do Pictures Want: The Lives and Loves of Images.
James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association