Recipients of the 2011/2012 Humanities Research Award

Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "Mediascapes: Literature and New Media Cultures in the Spanish Caribbean"

Kristen Belgum, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Geographical Imagination or How the World Shrank in the Nineteenth Century"

Benjamin Brower, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, for "The Mediterranean Hajj Under French Rule, 1798-1962"

Kirsten Cather, Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, for "Scripting Suicide in Modern Japan"

Tarek El-Ariss, Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, for "Making a Scene: Literature, Social Media, and the Arab Spring"

Tiffany Gill, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "Intentional Tourists: African Americans, Leisure Travel, and the Making of Postwar Black Internationalism"

Huaiyin Li, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "China Under Mao: A New Interpretation"

Jeffrey Meikle, Stiles Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "The Cultural Legacy of the Beat Generation:a multidisciplinary study of writers and artists influenced by the Beat writers"

Lisa Moore, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "Selected Poems of Anna Seward - new edition"

Lynn Wilkinson, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "A Field of Their Own: Women Intellectuals in Nineteenth-Century Europe"

Recipients of the 2010/2011 Humanities Research Award

Katherine Arens, Germanic Studies, for "Austrian Arc/K: A Historical Epistemology of Modern Science."

Arturo Arias, Spanish and Portuguese, for "Kotz'ib': The Emergence of a New Maya Literature."

Janine Barchas, English, for "Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity."

Erika Bsumek, History, for "The Concrete West: Engineering Society and the Culture in the Arid West, 1900-1980."

Luis Carcamo-Huechante, Spanish and Portuguese, for "On Mapuche Voices and Poetic Economies."

John Hartigan, Anthropology, for "The Roots of Racial Thinking: A Contemporary and Historical Study of ‘Razas de Maiz'."

Mark Lawrence, History, for "Broken Promise: The United States and the Developing World in the Crucial Decade."

Julia Mickenberg, American Studies, for "The New Woman Tries on Red: Russia in the American Feminist Imagination."

Martha Newman, History and Religious Studies, for "Miracle and Doubt in Late Twelfth-Century Monasticism."

Gabriela Polit-Dueñas, Spanish and Portuguese, for "Fictions of Drugs: Stories from Culiacan, Medellin and La Paz."

Recipients of the 2009/2010 Humanities Research Award

Hans Boas, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, for "Linguistic Infrastructure in Texas: Past potentials, current challenges, and future opportunities"

Yoav Di-Capua, Assistant Professor of History, for "Arab Thought on the Eve of Dystopia, 1939-1967"

Alison Frazier, Associate Professor of History, for "The Beginning of the World in the Italian Renaissance: Conversations about Creation, 1300-1500"

Karen Grumberg, Assistant Professor of Hebrew, for "Hebrew Gothic: Narrative, Nation, and the Discourse of Victimization"

Sabine Hake, Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture, Germanic Studies, for "Political Affect: The Fascist Imaginary in Postfascist Cinema"

Tracie Matysik, Associate Professor of History, for a monograph, "Spinoza Matters" and a translation, "Women on Nietzsche, Gender, and Sexuality"

Robert Oppenheim, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, for "An intellectual History of Korea and American Anthropology"

Paula Perlman, Professor of Classics, for two Cretan Studies, "The Inscribed Laws of Ancient Crete" and "Constructing Crete: Society and History, ca. 1000-400 B.C."

Guy Raffa, Associate Professor of Italian, for "Dante's Bones"

Marjorie Woods, Professor of English, for "Weeping for Dido: Male Writers and Female Emotions in the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Classroom"