This listing includes awards and achievements for the period of July 2014 – June 2015. Further details at bottom of page.
Anthropology
Eve Danziger | Resident Faculty Fellow, UVA Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, 2013‐2015
Susan McKinnon | Weatherhead Fellowship from the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe
Art
Sarah Betzer | 2014-15 Hetty Goldman Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Bruce Boucher | Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London
Anastasia Dtakouri-Hild | UVA Buckner W. Clay Endowment Award, 2014-15
Douglas Fordham | Mid-Career Fellowship, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2014-15
Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz | Lighton International Artist Exchange Program, India
George Sampson | 2015 Faculty Award, IMP Society
Tyler Jo Smith | 2014 Distinguished Teaching Award, UVA Student Council
Eric Ramirez-Weaver | Mellon Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; 2014-15 Mead Honored Faculty, UVA Mead Endowment
Dorothy Wong | UVA Buckner W. Clay Endowment Award, 2014-15
William Wylie | Yale University Art Museum Fellowship and Residency in Italy; UVA Buckner W. Clay Endowment Award, 2014-15
Astronomy
Shane Davis | Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Physics
John Hawley | UVA Distinguished Scientist Award, 2014-15
Kelsey Johnson | UVA Distinguished Research Career Development Award
Edward Murphy | UVA Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award
Steven Majewski | Elected, Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry, Kosciuszko Foundation
William Saslaw | Fellow for Life, Jesus College, U. Cambridge
Trinh Thuan | Grand Prize for "Humanism and Society: Science and Conscience,” Freemasonry and Society Association, Paris
Mark Whittle | Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge
Biology
George Bloom | President, Central Virginia Society for Neuroscience
Masashi Kawasaki | 2014-15 UVA All-University Teaching Award
David Kittlesen | Elected to University Academy of Teaching
Sarah Kucenas | 2015 SCHEV Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award
Michael Timko | Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Life Sciences, Global Biotech Forum
Chemistry
Cassandra Fraser | 2014 UVA Intersorority Council Teaching Commendation
Don Hunt | American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014-15
James Landers | 2014 UVA Jefferson Scholar Faculty Fellow; Jefferson Scholars Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2014
Rebecca Pompano | American Association of Immunologists Public Policy 2014 Fellows Program; Elected to University Academy of Teaching
Drama
Marianne Kubik | Awarded four "Awards of Merit," 2014 Best Shorts Competition in La Jolla, CA; Certificate of Merit, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Region II Festival, for Adaptation of Chekhov’s Stories, "Vodka Variations"; Spring 2015 Artist Residency, U. Connecticut
Kim Brooks Mata | 2014-15 Mead Honored Faculty, UVA Mead Endowment
Economics
Federico Ciliberto | UVA Presidential Commendation, Extraordinary Contributor to Undergraduate Experience
Ken Elzinga | Honorary Professor, Dongbei University; Leonard Sandridge Student Partnership Award; Weiching Williams Yen Award, UVA China Fund
Charles Holt | Board of Advisors, Experimental Economics
English
Alison Booth | 2014-15 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship
Stephen Cushman | 2014-15 SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award
Rita Felski | UVA Buckner W. Clay Award, 2014-15
Bruce Holsinger | 2014 John Hurt Fisher Award, International John Gower Society, for A Burnable Book
Jerome McGann | Inducted in American Philosophical Society; Visiting Research Professor, U.C. Berkeley; Spring 2015 Visiting Fellow, Mellon Centre for Interdisciplinary Innovation, Cambridge U.
Debra Nystrom | Extraordinary Contributor, UVA Commendation by Pres. Sullivan
John O’Brien | NEH Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professorship, 2014-2017
A. C. Spearing | 2014 Cambridge LittD Award
Andrew Stauffer | Distinguished Pinetree Fellowship in the History of the Book, Advanced Research Collaborative, CUNY Graduate Center, 2014-15
Lisa Woolfork | All-University Teaching Award
English and Creative Writing
Rita Dove | Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014 Furious Flower Poetry Conference; 2014 Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry, Library of Virginia
Lisa Russ Spaar | Jefferson Scholars Foundation Faculty Award, 2013 - 2015; Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellowship, Spring 2015
Environmental Sciences
Robert Davis | 2014 Figure of the Year Award, American Journal of Epidemiology
Stephan De Wekker | 2014 Mead Honored Faculty, UVA Mead Endowment
Alan Howard | 2014 Fellow, Geological Society of America
Maneul Lerdau | 2015 Science-Writer Award, Kavli Foundation
Patricia Wiberg | Lifetime Achievement Award in Earth System Modeling, Community for Surface Dynamics Modeling
French
Ari Blatt | 2014-15 Fellow of the UVA Institute for the Humanities and Global Cultures
German
Sybil Scholz | 2014 Mead Honored Faculty, UVA Mead Endowment
M. Chad Wellmon | UVA Global Research Program of Distinction Award for “Global Literary Networks”
History
Tico Braun | Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award
Grace Hale | Visiting Scholar in Japan, Organization of American Historians, Japanese American Studies Association
Andrew Kahrl | Charles Ryskamp Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
Thomas Klubock | Bryce Wood Book Award, for La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Territory, Latin American Studies Association
Ted Lendon | Elected Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2014-15
Melvyn Leffler | Visiting Fellow, SAIS, Bologne; Thomas Jefferson Award for Scholarship
James Loeffler | Robert A. Savitt Fellow, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies; 2014 Columbia University Libraries Research Award
Christian McMillen | Fellow, Mellon Foundation
Neeti Nair | Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2014-15
Sophie Rosenfeld | Elected Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2014-15
Elizabeth Thompson | Fellow, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2014-16; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2015-16
Elizabeth Varon | Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction, for Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War; Daniel M. and Marilyn W. Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Roundtable; Civil War Monitor Best Books of 2014
Joshua White | Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
Mathematics
Andrew Obus | 2014-15 UVA All-University Teaching Award
Andrei Rapinchuk | Fellow, American Mathematical Society
Media Studies
Hector Amaya | Page-Barbour Award for “From Cold Wars to Drug Wars” Conference
Christopher Ali | Gressly-Fleck International Scholarship, U. Fribourg, Switzerland, Summer 2015
Jennifer Petersen | UVA Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) Fellowship
Andrea Press | Institute for Humanities and Global Cultures Fellowship; UVA Bucker W. Clay Endowment Award
Siva Vaidhyanathan | UVA Shannon Fellowship; Visiting Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard U.
Media Studies and Women, Gender & Sexuality
Andre Cavalcante | Best Dissertation Award, 2014 Mark Foote Distinguished Dissertation, U. Michigan; Top Paper Award, International Communications Association Conference (LGBT Division), 2015
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Farzaneh Milani | 2015 Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award
Geeta Patel | Senior Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India, Summer 2015
Music
Matthew Burtner | 2014 American Prize for Music Composition in Opera/Theater, Special Judges Citation Prize
I-Jen Fang | 2014-15 Mead Honored Faculty, UVA Mead Endowment
Michelle Kisliuk | 2015 UVA Champion of Diversity Mentoring Award, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs
Papers of James Madison
John Stagg | 2014 Moncado Award for Outstanding Article, Journal of Military History
Philosophy
Dan Devereux | UVA Jefferson Scholars Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching
Physics
Peter Arnold and Despina Louca | Fellow, American Physical Society
Gordon Cates | Chair‐elect, Division of Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society
Brad Cox | UVA Distinguished Scientist Award, 2014-15
Brad Cox | Jesse W. Beams Research Award, Southeast Section of American Physical Society
Robert Jones | Vice Chair, Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, American Physical Society
Simonetta Liuti | Chair, Southeast Section of American Physical Society
Politics
Lawrie Balfour | Victor Wolfenstein Memorial Lecturer, UCLA
James Ceaser | Jean Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award
Jeff Jenkins | Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford U.Scholar, Turin, Italy, Spring-Summer 2015; Appointed Fulbright Specialist
David Leblang | UVA Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Office of the Provost
Carol Mershon | Collegio Carlo Alberto Visiting
Jim Savage | Elected Fellow, National Academic of Public Administration; Appointed Fulbright Specialist
Todd Sechser | 2014-15 Mead Honored Faculty, UVA Mead Endowment
Michael J. Smith | Z Society Faculty Award, UVA, 2014-15
Politics and Women, Gender & Sexuality
Denise Walsh | UVA Seven Society, Teaching Recognition; Visiting Scholar, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy, Spring 2015.
Psychology
Steven Boker | President, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology
Ed Diener | "In Honor of" Award, Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2015
Noelle Hurd | William T. Grant Faculty Scholar
John Nesselroade (Emeritus) | 2015 Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, American Psychological Association
Brian Nosek | 2014 Award for Distinguished Service, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Bethany Teachman | 2014 Outstanding Mentor Award, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
Dan Willingham | Translation Award, International Mind, Brain, and Education Society
Tim Wilson | William James Fellow Award, Association of Psychological Science
Psychology and Women, Gender & Sexuality
Charlotte Patterson | Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 35: Psychology of Women
Slavic
Edith Clowes | UVA Buckner W. Clay Endowment Award, 2014-15
Katia Dianina | 2014 Best Book in Literature and Culture for When Art Makes News: Writing Culture and Identity in Imperial Russia, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Sociology
Simone Polillo | 2014-15 Mead Honored Faculty, UVA Mead Endowment
Allison Pugh | UVA Buckner W. Clay Endowment Award, 2014-15; Page-Barbour Award for “The Intimacy Lectures”
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Eli Carter | Page-Barbour Award for “From Cold Wars to Drug Wars” Conference
David Gies | President, International Association of Hispanists (2013‐2016); U. Pittsburgh Hispanic Languages and Literatures 50th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Speaker, 2014
Ricardo Padron | Elected Discipline Representative for "Americas," Renaissance Society of America
Emily Scida | Daniels Family NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship, UVA, 2011‐2014
Alison Weber | Elected Member of Order of Discoverers, Sigma Delta Pi: the National Spanish Honor Society
2014-15 Faculty Awards & Achievements*
*This listing includes awards and achievements for the period of July 2014 – June 2015, as submitted by A&S department chairs. The following categories have been included: major university awards/recognition; national, state and international awards/book awards; fellowships and visiting professorships; honorary doctorates; presidency of national societies. Faculty members who have received additional 2014-15 awards and achievements in these categories may submit them to Juliet Trail (trail@virginia.edu) for inclusion on this webpage.