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2007-08 UCSC Literature Faculty Awards and Honors

Professor Murray Baumgarten

2008 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant
Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture: Historical Eras and Cultural Representations

2007 & 2008 Residency Fellowships
The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jews and the City


Associate Professor Louis Chude-Sokei

2007 First Finalist, Legacy Award Nonfiction, Hurston/Wright Foundation
The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora


Professor Chris Connery

2007 Dizikes Teaching Award


Associate Professor Jody Greene

2008 Dizikes Teaching Award


Professor John O. Jordan

2008 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant Summer Seminar
Adaptation and Revision: The Example of Great Expectations


Professor Sharon Kinoshita

2007 Honorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary Studies Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature


Professor Sharon Kinoshita and Professor Brian Catlos (History)

2008 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant
Summer Institute
The Medieval Mediterranean and the Origins of the West

2007 & 2008 University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI)
Grant Co-Conveners, Residential Research Group

The Emergence of the "West": Shifting Hegemonies in the Medieval Mediterranean


Professor Nathaniel Mackey

2008 Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association

2007 Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize, Archive for New Poetry at UCSD

2007 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for Splay Anthem

2007 Individual Artist's Grant in Poetry, Foundation for Contemporary Arts

2006 National Book Award in Poetry for Splay Anthem


Associate Professor Micah Perks

2008 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship
The Captivity And Restoration Of Mary Rowlandson, My Mother And Me