American Culture Faculty Accolades!
Clare Croft
· Recipient, ADVANCE SUCCEED grant (2019)
Greg Dowd
· Individual Recipient College of LSA 2019 Individual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education in Race & Ethnicity Instruction
Sandra Gunning
· Awarded Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship (effective July 2019)
Charlotte Albrecht
· U-M Faculty Fellowship in the Institute for the Humanities (2019-2020)
Clare Croft
· Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan Grant for the continuation of "Choreographing Black Space”
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
· Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Public Engagement and the Humanities grantee
June Howard
· Honorable Mention, British Association for American Studies, for The Center of the World: Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Roland Hwang
· Appointed to the Michigan State Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights
· Appointed to the Civics Subcommittee of the K-12 Social Studies Standards Committee to the Michigan Department of Education
Leila Kawar
· Mellon New Directions Fellowship (2019-2020)
· Appointed Chair, Academic Freedom Taskforce, Law and Society Association
Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
· Soros Equality Fellow (2019-2020)
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
· Mildred Tirado Lucha Award "for uniting, empowering, and holistically supporting members of the Latinx community”
· Promoted to full professor of American Culture, Romance Languages & Literatures, and Women’s Studies
Scott Larson
· Elected to the AHA Committee on LGBT History
Ian Shin
· Faculty Fellow, U-M Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, (winter 2020)
Alexandra Minna Stern
· National Endowment for the Humanities HCRR Implementation Grant (2019-2021)
· NIH, NHGRI-ELSI R01 Grant (2018-2021)
Magdalena Zabrowoska
· U-M NINI grant for Black Digital Studies, AMCULT/DAAS601 and AAS358
· Elected to the ASA’s Constance M. Rourke Prize Committee