Announcing the 2023 Schwab Academic Excellence Award winners
February 24, 2023 | Kristen Chavez
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce the 21 recipients of the 2023 Schwab Academic Excellence Awards. The award recognizes one faculty member from each College of Arts and Sciences department in the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences.
Selected faculty, nominated by their department chairs, may use the awarded funds to support their scholarship and creative activity.
The 2023 Schwab Academic Excellence Award winners are:
- African, African American, and Diaspora Studies: Mohamed Mwamzandi
- American Studies: Antonia Randolph
- Anthropology: Martha King
- Art and Art History: Tatiana String
- Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: Yaron Shemer
- City and Regional Planning: Matthew Bhagat-Conway
- Classics: Timothy Shea
- Communication: Bill Brown
- Dramatic Art: Jacqueline Lawton
- English and Comparative Literature: Tyree Daye
- Geography: Danielle Purifoy
- Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures: Gabriel Trop
- History: Matthew Andrews
- Linguistics: J. Michael Terry
- Music: Maya Shipman (professionally known as Suzi Analogue)
- Philosophy: Luc Bovens
- Political Science: Santiago Olivella
- Religious Studies: Youssef Carter
- Romance Studies: Chloe Hill
- Sociology: Kathleen Fitzgerald
- Women’s and Gender Studies: Sarah Bloesch
Julia Sprunt Grumbles, former IAH Advisory Board chair and current member, established the award in 2015 to help department chairs recognize teaching and scholarship. Nelson Schwab III, former IAH Advisory Board Chair, has since endowed the fund.
Categories: Featured News Content, News