Category: Award

Each year, the L&S Honors Program invites students to nominate faculty members or instructional academic staff who have made a meaningful impact through teaching Honors-designated courses, mentoring Honors projects, or supervising undergraduate Honors research experiences. The Faculty Honors Committee evaluates these nominations and selects the most outstanding individuals to receive Distinguished Honors Faculty designation. This …

Professor Jill Casid noted as a “particularly influential” Art History professor by alum curating the 2026 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the longest-running survey of American art and one of the preeminent events in the art world! When Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer toured the country this year …

Join us in extending a hearty congratulations to Professor Anna Campbell for receiving the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts! The Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts (established in 1997) recognizes and honors extraordinary artistic projects and endeavors of the highest quality carried out by tenured members of the UW–Madison arts faculty. …

Congratulations to Kelly M. Ward on receiving a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. This is a one year fellowship award which is funded by the Mellon Foundation. It provides a stipend for travel and research for “outstanding junior faculty committed to campus diversity and innovative research in the humanities and …

Join us in extending a hearty congratulations to GWS Associate Professor Annie Menzel for receiving one of thirteen Distinguished Teaching Awards! Professor Menzel was awarded the Class of 1955 Teaching Excellence Award. The Distinguished Teaching Awards have been given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. A ceremony will take place …

Join us in wishing a hearty congratulations to Professor Ruth Goldstein! GWS Professor Ruth Goldstein has been awarded the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s Cultural Horizons Prize for her article “Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature.” The Cultural Horizons Prize is awarded by a jury of doctoral students …

A passion for making a difference and Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) credentials link three of the six winners of the 2023 Louise Troxell Award and Edna Kernwood Glicksman Award. These awards, created to honor early campus and community women leaders and to recognize a new generation of inspirational women, acknowledge the accomplishments of UW-Madison …

Each year the College of Letters & Science awards the Dean’s Prize to a few of the most outstanding scholars in the graduating senior class, which this year included 2022 Summer, 2022 Fall, and 2023 Spring graduates. To be honored, students must meet a list of basic requirements including a minimum 3.75 cumulative GPA, 24 …