Mount Holyoke professors have won Guggenheim awards, NASA grants and Carnegie Fellowships.
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Soprano Sherezade Panthaki was the winner in two categories at the 2024-25 San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice Awards for musical performances across the Bay Area. She was awarded "Favorite Opera Singer," and "Favorite Vocal Recital" for her work with the celebrated early music ensemble, Voices of Music.
Mariah Rigg's debut collection, Extinction Capital of the World, won the 2026 Asian Pacific American Literature Award in Fiction.
Lauret Savoy was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (2024)
Lauret Savoy was awarded the ASLE Creative Writing Award for her book Trace Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (2017)
Lauret Savoy was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2017)
Forthcoming translation from the French of Catherine Malabou's Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought is the recipient of a 2022 French Voices award.
Telegrafi, F. (2025) Mystic Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, Best Narrative Short for "An Occurrence"
Awarded the 2012 Meribeth E. Cameron Prize for Scholarship for his stunning achievement as a scholar of cultural and social theory and his ability to open students’ minds.
Awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, on April 26, 2007. The German government recognized Van Handle for her achievements in promoting German language and culture in the United States.
