Awards

Prof. Cutter’s New Book Receives Honorable Mention from UCHI

Posted on April 19, 2023June 11, 2024 by Carcia, Peter

Prof. Martha Cutter’s most recent book, The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown (Penn Press, 2022), received an Honorable Mention from UCHI in the Sharon Harris Book Award competition.

Prof. Yohei Igarashi Receives NHC Fellowship

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Carcia, Peter

Professor Yohei Igarashi, of the Storrs campus, has received a residential fellowship from the National Humanities Center (NHC) for the 2023-24 academic year. This fellowship is part of his work in Languages and Literature research. Congratulations, Prof. Igarashi!

Katherine Jimenez ’24 (CLAS) Receives Beinecke Scholarship

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Carcia, Peter

Katherine Jimenez ’24 (CLAS), a student in both the English and Journalism programs, has been named as the University of Connecticut’s first Beinecke Scholarship recipient. Read more about the award and her upcoming projects on UConn Today. Congratulations, Katherine!

Michael Pontacoloni wins Southern Review Award for Poetry

Posted on March 29, 2023April 3, 2023 by Carcia, Peter

Congratulations to Michael Pontacoloni, ’09 (CLAS), who won the Southern Review’s Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for Poetry for his poem, “Antique Map of Dorchester Neck.” The poem is available in the Southern Review’s Summer 2022 edition.

Prof. Igarashi, Prof. Duane Receive SCHARP Development Grant

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Marceon Smith-Price

Professor Yohei Igarashi and Professor Anna Mae Duane have both been awarded a SCHARP (Scholarship and Collaboration in Humanities and Arts Research Program) Development Grant from UConn’s Office of the Vice President for Research.