University of Nebraska Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity
The Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award (ORCA) honors members of the University of Nebraska faculty who have conducted outstanding research or creative activity of national and/or international significance.
Kwame Dawes (2019)
Kenneth M. Price (2013)
Jonis Agee (2010)
Wheeler Winston Dixon (2006)
Susan J. Rosowski (2004)
Hilda Raz (2002)
Moira Ferguson (1995)
Oyekan Owomoyela (1994)
Stephen Behrendt (1992)
Louis Crompton (1986)
Paul A. Olson (1984)
Bernice Slote (1978)
College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award
The Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award (ORCA) honors recognizes significant research and creative accomplishments of faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences over the last five years.
Roland Végső (2021)
Adrian S. Wisnicki (2020)
Jonis Agee (2019)
Maureen Honey (2018)
Kenneth M. Price (2016)
Stephen Behrendt (2015)
Kwame Dawes (2014)
Joy Castro (2013)
Gerald Shapiro (2007)
Wheeler Winston Dixon (2003)
Hilda Raz (2001)
College of Arts & Sciences Mentoring Award
Amelia María de la Luz Montes (2020)
Grants
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant
Kwame Dawes and Lorna Dawes, The African Poetry Digital Portal (2022)
National Endowment for the Humanities Grants
Adrian S. Wisnicki (co-PI), Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (2022)
Matt Cohen and Kenneth M. Price, The Walt Whitman Archive
“Walt Whitman’s Journalism: Finding the Poet in the Brooklyn Daily Times” (2020)
“Walt Whitman Archive Infrastructure Revitalization” (2020)
“Walt Whitman’s Annotations” (2016)
Melissa Homestead and Emily J. Rau
Society for the Study of American Women Writers Digital Recovery Hub (2020)
Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price, and Stephanie Browner (The New School), The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive
“Charles Chesnutt: A Digital Archive” (2018)
Julia Schleck
“Beyond East and West: Exchanges and Encounters in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800”, a summer institute for college and university professors (2017)
National Endowment for the Humanities/National Writing Project Building a More Perfect Union Grant
The Nebraska Writing Project (Robert Brooke, director) and Friends of Homestead National Park
“There's No Such Thing as Free Land: Understanding the Homestead Acts through Multiple Perspectives” (2022)
Purdue University Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant
Adrian S. Wisnicki (co-PI), “Recovering BIPOC Voices” (2022)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant
Melissa Homestead (co-PI), The Women’s Print History Project, 1750-1830 (2020)
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Grants
Ed Folsom (University of Iowa) and Kenneth M. Price, The Walt Whitman Archive
“Fame and Infamy: Walt Whitman’s Old Age Correspondence” (annual grants, 2016-2021)
American Council of Learned Societies
Joy Castro, Margaret Huettl, Jeannette Eileen Jones, Kenneth M. Price, and William G. Thomas III, New Storytellers: The Research Institute on Digital Ethnic Studies (2019-2021)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar
Joy Castro
To participate in the summer institute “José Martí and the Cuban Immigrant Communities of Florida” (2019)
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Creative Writing Fellowships
Hope Wabuke (2017)
For her book The Body Family (Haymarket Books, 2022)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends
Melissa Homestead (2017)
For her book The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant
Amelia María de la Luz Montes (2017)
Other Awards
Neustadt International Prize Finalist
Kwame Dawes (2022)
For his poetry collection Prophets (Peepal Tree Press, 2018 reissue)
PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing
Kwame Dawes (2021)
Windham-Campbell Prize
Kwame Dawes (2019)
The Booker Prize Shortlist
Chigozie Obioma (2015 & 2019)
For his first and second novels, An Orchestra of Minorities (Little, Brown and Company, 2019) and The Fishermen (Little, Brown and Company, 2015)
International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Publication of the Year
Rachael W. Shah (2022)
For her book Rewriting Partnerships: Community Perspectives of Community-Based Learning (Utah State University Press, 2020)
Coalition for Community Writing Outstanding Book Award
Rachael W. Shah (2022)
For her book Rewriting Partnerships: Community Perspectives of Community-Based Learning (Utah State University Press, 2020)
Children's Literature Association's Honor Book Award
Gabrielle Owen (2022)
For her book A Queer History of Adolescence: Development Pasts, Relational Futures (University of Georgia Press, 2020)
Penguin Random House International “One World, One Book” Program
Timothy Schaffert (2022)
For The Perfume Thief (2021)
“One Book, One Nebraska” Selection
Jonis Agee (2022)
For her book The Bones of Paradise(2016)
Society for Textual Scholarship David Greetham Prize
Matt Cohen (2022)
For “Time and the Bibliographer: A Meditation on the Spirit of Book Studies”
Society for Textual Scholarship Richard J. Finneran Award
The Walt Whitman Archive (2022)
For the digital Leaves of Grass (1855) Variorum
American Academy in Berlin Prize
Marco Abel (2019)
18th Annual International Latino Book Awards — Best Latino/a-themed Fiction Book Winner
Jennine Capó Crucet (2017)
For her novel Make Your Home Among Strangers (MacMillan, 2015)
2017 Independent Publisher Book Award
Kwame Dawes (2017)
For editing the essay collection When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life (Pacific University Press, 2016)
James V. Griesen 2017 Chancellor's Award for Exemplary Service to Students
Kelly Payne (2017)