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Awards and Accolades

CAAPP 2024 Book Prize Recipient Announced

The 2024 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) Book Prize has been announced. Jasmine Reid received the prize for her manuscript, “Interlocutor Goddess.”  The manuscript will be published in 2025 by Autumn House Press.

Reid is also the author of Deus Ex Nigrum (2020) and a recipient of Cave Canem and Poets House fellowships. She has been published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and TriQuarterly. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the Pratt Institute.

40 Dietrich Students Earned Prestigous Brackenridge Fellowship

Forty-four undergraduates earned a 2024 Brackenridge Fellowship, one of the University of Pittsburgh’s most prestigious awards. Recipients earn funding to conduct independent research, scholarship or creative work under the guidance of a Pitt faculty mentor.
 
  • Zain Adamo, a film and media studies major in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences — “Samira's Choice”

Ten Dietrich School Students and Alumni Named Fulbright U.S. Student Program Award Recipients

Fourteen University of Pittsburgh students and alumni have been named award recipients by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international academic exchange program.
 

Morgan Chen (A&S ’24), of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, graduated with majors in German and psychology and minors in LGBT and critical sexuality studies. Inspired by her time spent studying abroad in Heidelberg, Chen will serve as an English teaching assistant in Germany before pursuing graduate school for mental health counseling.

Africana Studies Professor, Tiana Wilson, OAH 2024 Lerner-Scott Prize Recipient

Tiana Wilson, an assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies in the Dietrich School is the recipient of the Organization of American Historian’s 2024 Lerner-Scott Prize. The Lerner-Scott Prize recognizes the top PhD dissertation in U.S. Women’s History and was presented at the OAH’s 2024 Conference on American History.
 

Lina Insana and Team Awarded NEH Grant for Italian American Research

Lina Insana an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian in the Dietrich School along with the Heinz History Center and West Virginia University were awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) award. The award is a $50,000 grant to support and grow the Italian Diaspora Archive R

Student Research Teams Published in the Journal of Science Policy & Governance

Two student author teams from the Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences in the Dietrich School have been published in the April issue of the Journal of Science Policy & Governance. The teams published their spring 2023 Geology 1312 Environmental Law and Policy class project policy papers.