Awards and Honors

Named for the founding chair of the Department of Public Speaking at the University of Maryland, this award honors a graduate student in the department for outstanding achievement across research, teaching and service.

Eligibility: Any Department of Communication graduate student in good standing is eligible for the Richardson Award. Students cannot be nominated for this award and the Raymond Ehrensberger Early Scholar Award during the same award period. Awardees are typically in their penultimate or final year of the program.

Nomination Process: An email announcing the nomination process and deadlines will be sent out by the Faculty Advisory Committee chair in March of each year. Nominations must be submitted via electronic form by the second Friday in April. Nominations for the award may come from the student’s advisor or any member of the graduate faculty. Eligible students are encouraged to discuss the award with their advisor or a member of their advisory committee. Nomination should include: (1) One letter of support from the student's advisor or another member of the graduate faculty, not to exceed 2 single-spaced pages, that speaks to the award’s evaluation criteria. (2) A copy of the nominee’s CV.

Evaluation: The selection committee for the award is composed of graduate faculty on the Faculty Advisory Committee. They will review the CV and letter of support for evidence of outstanding achievement across research, teaching, and service areas. 

2005: Qi Wang
2006: Lisa Corrigan
2007: Belinda Stillion Southard
2008: Bjorn Stillion Southard
2009: Brian G. Smith
2010: Timothy Barney
2011: Lucinda L. Austin
2012: Abbey Blake Levenshus
2013: Rowena Briones
2014: Kelly Madden Daily
2015: Julia Daisy Fraustino & Michael Steudeman
2016: Irina Iles & Stephanie Madden
2017: Megan Fitzmaurice
2018: Will Howell & Zexin Ma
2019: Rong Ma
2020: Jungkyu Rhys Lim & Samantha Stanley
2021: Sara Aghazadeh & Victoria Ledford
2022: Darrian Carroll
2023: Kathryn Thier & Matthew Salzano
2024: Meg Itoh
2025: Max Erdemandi & Shilin (Sophie) Xia                               

Named for the second chair of the Department of Speech at the University of Maryland, this award honors a graduate student for outstanding achievement in their first two years of graduate study beyond the bachelor's degree.

Eligibility: Any Department of Communication graduate student in good standing and in their first two years of graduate study beyond the bachelor’s degree is eligible for this award. Students cannot be nominated for this award and the Charles Richardson Outstanding Graduate Student Award during the same award period.

Nomination Process: An email announcing the nomination process and deadlines will be sent out by the Faculty Advisory Committee chair in March of each year. Nominations must be submitted via electronic form by the second Friday in April. Nominations for the award may come from the student’s advisor or any member of the graduate faculty. Eligible students are encouraged to discuss the award with their advisor or a member of their advisory committee. Nominations for this award should include: (1) one letter of support from the student's advisor or another member of the graduate faculty, not to exceed 2 single-spaced pages, that speaks to the award’s evaluation criteria. (2) A copy of the nominee’s CV.

Evaluation: The selection committee for the award is composed of three graduate faculty on the Faculty Advisory Committee. They will review the CV and letter of support for evidence of outstanding achievement and promise in research, teaching, and/or service. 

2005: Stephanie Materese
2006: Ben Krueger
2007: Timothy Barney
2008: Terri Donofrio
2009: Elizabeth Gardner
2010:Rowena Briones
2011: Jade Olson
2012: Abigail Seiler
2013: No award given
2014: Stephanie Madden
2015: Zexin Ma
2016: Lauren Hunter
2017: JungKyu Lim
2018: Alyson Farzad-Phillips
2019: No award given
2020: Matthew Salzano & Jeannette Viens
2021: Drew Ashby-King & Ari Perez Montes
2022: Umisha KC
2023: Abigail Vázquez Rosario
2024: Siqiao "Austin" Ao
2025: Andrew Lowe Mohammed

The Outstanding Graduate Research Paper Award recognizes the best nominated graduate student research paper.

Eligibility: Open to any graduate student in good standing in the Department of Communication. Papers must be authored by graduate students, or, in the case of multi-authored papers published with faculty members, the nominee must be listed as first author, and their contribution should be more than 50% of the published work. Nominated papers must have been presented at a professional conference, symposium, or accepted for publication in an academic journal in the calendar year preceding the granting of the award.

Nomination Process: An email announcing the nomination process and deadlines will be sent out by the Faculty Advisory Committee chair in March of each year. Nominations must be submitted via electronic form by the second Friday in April. Nominations for the award may come from any graduate student or member of the graduate faculty. Self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged, but students should discuss their nomination with a faculty member. Students may be nominated for this award in successive years, but only one paper may be nominated per award period. Applications should include: (1) A copy of the paper. (2) A letter, not to exceed 2 single-spaced pages, that speaks to the award’s evaluation criteria. In the case of co-authored papers, the letter must include a statement from the co-author on the authorship %s of the nominated paper.

Evaluation: The selection committee for the award is composed of graduate faculty on the Faculty Advisory Committee. Criteria for evaluation may include:
●    Overall quality and clarity of content
●    Originality and significance of contribution
●    Reputation or relevance of publication outlet or presentation venue to your work
●    In multi-authored work, the significance and % of the nominee’s contribution to the overall paper

2005: Belinda Stillion Southard
2006: Tiffany Thompson
2007: Jennifer Vardeman
2008: Timothy Barney
2009: Timothy Barney
2010: Stephen Underhill
2011: Terri Donofrio & Alyssa Samek
2012: Tiffany Lewis
2013: Michael Steudeman
2014: Michael Steudeman
2015: Thomas McCloskey
2016: Michael Steudeman
2017: Bo Yang
2018: Randall Fowler
2019: Randall Fowler
2020: Alyson Farzad-Phillips
2021: Jeannette Iannacone
2022: Drew Ashby-King & Ashley Aragón
2023: Fielding Montgomery & Brooke Phipps
2024: Meg Itoh & Fielding Montgomery

This award is given by undergraduate students to a member of the Department of Communication in recognition of their teaching excellence. 2026 is the inaugural year of this award. 

Eligibility: Any staff, faculty, and graduate students who teach an undergraduate-level course in the Department of Communication are eligible for the award.

Nomination Process: Nominations for this award must be made by undergraduate students who have taken courses offered by the Department of Communication. Nominations can be made by an individual student; however, we encourage students to collaborate on nominations (e.g., students in the same class or students who have individually taken a class with the nominee). Undergraduate students are invited to nominate individuals who have had a significant and positive impact on their learning, who support their professional development, and who demonstrate enthusiasm for teaching. Nominations must be submitted via electronic form by the second Friday in April. 

Nominations should address the following questions (these are included in the form): 
●    How do you know the nominee?
●    How has the nominee impacted you personally, inside and/or outside of the classroom? 
●    Why should the nominee receive this award? Please share specific example(s) of how the nominee created an exemplary environment in the classroom.

Evaluation: Nominations must include all required elements to be considered. Nominations will be evaluated by the Teaching and Service Awards Committee, which is a five-member committee appointed by the Faculty Advisory Committee that includes staff, faculty, and graduate students. Nominees must recuse themselves from deliberation from any awards for which they are nominated. The chair of the Teaching and Service Awards Committee will be a faculty member.

The Andrew D. Wolvin Outstanding Teaching Awards recognize outstanding contributions to teaching within the Department of Communication by graduate students, professional-track faculty, and tenure-track faculty.  

Eligibility: Graduate students must be in good standing in the department. Up to five graduate students, two professional-track faculty members, and two tenure-track faculty members will be awarded.

Nomination process: Nominations for this award may be made by faculty, staff or graduate students. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. Graduate students are encouraged to work on their nomination packet in consultation with their advisor. An email announcing the nomination process and deadlines will be sent out by the Faculty Advisory Committee chair in March of each year. Nominations must be submitted via electronic form by the second Friday in April. Nominations should include: (1) A letter outlining the nominee’s teaching accomplishments. Letters should be limited to 3 single-spaced pages. The letter may address the following: teaching philosophy, course experiences feedback, feedback from formal teaching evaluations, participation in professional development related to teaching (e.g., Teaching and Learning Transformation Center (TLTC) workshops), contributions to course development or revision. (2) A copy of the nominee’s CV.

Evaluation: Nominations must include all required elements to be considered. Nominations will be evaluated by the Teaching and Service Awards Committee, which is a five-member committee appointed by the Faculty Advisory Committee that includes staff, faculty, and graduate students. Nominees must recuse themselves from deliberation from any awards for which they are nominated. The chair of the Teaching and Service Awards Committee will be a faculty member. 
 

2005: Tiffany Derville, Erica Lamm, Tiffany Thompson

2006: Timothy Barney, Kelly Carr, Abbe Depretis & Ric Winston

2007: Terri Donofrio & Xiaoying Xie

2008: Heather Adams, Ioana Cionea & Sejal Patel

2009: Lucinda Austin, Rowena Briones & Ben Krueger

2010: Yoav Magid, Katie Place & Alyssa Samek

2011: Steven Cohen, Abbe Depretis, Sejal Patel & Artesha Taylor

2012: Sean Luechtefeld, Kelly Madden, Jade Olson & Adam Richards

2013: Melissa Janoske & Michael Steudeman

2014: Jessica Lu, Thomas McCloskey, Annie Laurie Nichols, Yvonne Slosarski & Michael Steudeman

2015: Jaclyn Bruner, Lauren Harris, Irina Iles, Stephanie Madden & Devin Scott

2016: Rebecca Alt, Brooke Fowler, Lauren Hunter, Liang Ma & Timothy Penn

2017: Lindsey Anderson (Faculty), Anita Atwell Seate (Faculty), Luke Capizzo (Graduate Student), Chien Hsin-Yi (Graduate Student), Megan Fitzmaurice (Graduate Student), Devin Scott (Graduate Student), Meridith Styer (Graduate Student), Jean Marie VandenBosch (posthumous, PTK) & Susan Whyte Simon (PTK)

2018: Hagar Attia (Graduate Student), Nora Murphy (Graduate Student) & Michelle Murray Yang (Faculty)

2019: Kang Namkoong (Faculty), Raphael Mazzone (PTK), A.B. Smithson (PTK), Skye de Saint Felix (Graduate Student), Alyson Farzad-Phillips (Graduate Student), Victoria Ledford (Graduate Student), Samantha Stanley (Graduate Student) & and Misti Yang (Graduate Student)

2020: Sun Young Lee (Faculty), Carly S. Woods (Faculty), Darrian Carroll (Graduate Student), Randall Fowler (Graduate Student), Sumin Fang (Graduate Student), Duli Shi (Graduate Student) & Jeannette Viens (Graduate Student)

2021: Nick Joyce (Faculty), Catherine Knight Steele (Faculty), Jeremy Grossman (PTK), Ashley Aragon (Graduate Student), Taylor Hourigan (Graduate Student), Meg Itoh (Graduate Student), Xiaojing (Romy) Wang (Graduate Student), & Gareth Williams (Graduate Student)

2022: Jiyoun Kim (Faculty), Brooke Fisher Liu (Faculty), Mollie Kaufer (PTK), Janna Soeder (PTK), Drew Ashby-King (Graduate Student), Alisa Hardy (Graduate Student), Victoria McDermott (Graduate Student), E. Brooke Phipps (Graduate Student), & Carolyn Robbins (Graduate Student)                       

2023: Kristy Maddux (TTK Faculty), Dionne Clemons (PTK Faculty), Daviana Fraser(Graduate Student), Umisha KC (Graduate Student), Fielding Montgomery (Graduate Student), Ari Perez Montes (Graduate Student), & Matthew Salzano (Graduate Student)

2024: Dr. Jiyoun Kim (TTK Faculty), Dr. Ray Bailey (PTK Faculty), Jin Choi (Graduate Student), Jonathan Leach (Graduate Student), Daviana Fraser (Graduate Student), Crystal Stone (Graduate Student), & Grace Kim (Graduate Student)

2025: Dr. Hailey Otis (TTK), Dr. Fielding Montgomery (PTK), Rudy Kim (Graduate Student), Jana Sabri (Graduate Student), Tatenda Mashanda (Graduate Student), & Kalin Schultz (Graduate Student) 

The Outstanding Service Awards recognize individuals in the Department of Communication who have made substantial contributions to the welfare of the department, college and/or university through their service activities beyond their regular job responsibilities.

Eligibility: Staff, faculty, and graduate students are eligible for the awards. Graduate students must be in good standing in the department. Up to one graduate student, one staff member, one professional-track faculty member, and one tenure-track faculty member will be awarded.

Nomination process: Nominations for this award may be made by faculty, staff or graduate students. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. An email announcing the nomination process and deadlines will be sent out by the Faculty Advisory Committee chair in March of each year. Nominations must be submitted via electronic form by the second Friday in April. Nominations should include each of the following: (1) A letter outlining the nominee’s service contributions. Letters should be limited to 2 single-spaced pages. The letter may address the following: explanation of how service activities exceed job requirements, addressing labor inequities in service load or “invisible” service roles, mentorship/support outside of formal supervisory relationships, volunteering for roles outside of expected service workload, recognition of service to discipline and field outside of institutional service expectations. (2) A copy of the nominee’s CV or résumé.

Evaluation: Nominations must include all required elements to be considered. Nominations will be evaluated by the Teaching and Service Awards Committee, which is a five-member committee appointed by the Faculty Advisory Committee that includes staff, faculty, and graduate students. Nominees must recuse themselves from deliberation from any awards for which they are nominated. The chair of the Teaching and Service Awards Committee will be a faculty member.

2009: Terri Donofrio
2010: Timothy Barney, Ioana Cionea & Terri Donofrio
2011: Elizabeth Gardner
2012: Sean Luechtefeld
2013: Jade Olson
2014: Melissa Janoske
2015: Irina Iles
2016: Yvonne Slosarski
2017: Rebecca Alt (Graduate Student), Brooke Fisher Liu (Faculty) & Lillie Sullivan (Staff)
2018: Nora Murphy (Graduate Student), Damien Pfister (Faculty) & Carlin Bokal (Staff)
2019: Alyson Farzad-Phillips (Graduate Student), Elizabeth Toth (Faculty) & Julie Gowin (Staff)
2020: Sara Aghazadeh (Graduate Student), Kristy Maddux (Faculty) & Adina Oved (Staff)
2021: Lindsey Anderson (Faculty), Darrian Carroll (Graduate Student), & Victoria Ledford (Graduate Student)
2022: Meg Itoh (Graduate Student), E. Brooke Phipps (Graduate Student), & Xiaojing Wang (Graduate Student)
2023: Kang Namkoong (Faculty), Ieva Young (Staff), Drew Ashby-King (Graduate Student)
2024: Dr. Anita Atwell Seate (TTK Faculty), Dr. Janna Soeder (PTK Faculty), Taylor Kleiner (Staff), Umisha KC (Graduate Student), Kalin Schultz (Graduate Student) 
2025: Dr. Sun Young Lee (TTK), Dr. Briana Barner (TTK), Merceadez Marion (Staff), & Alexandra Grimm (Graduate Student)

Given by COMMGrads to an outstanding faculty member.

2014: Shawn J. Parry-Giles
2015: James F. Klumpp
2016: Dale Hample
2017: Kristy Maddux
2018: Anita Atwell Seate
2019: Damien Pfister
2020: Lindsey B. Anderson
2021: Anita Atwell Seate
2022: Anita Atwell Seate                                                                           
2023: Kang Namkoong & Carly Woods
2024: Carina Zelaya
2025: Nick Joyce 

Named in honor of Richard and Elizabeth Toth. The award is given to the student/s who have demonstrated: 1) academic excellence, especially in PR classes; 2) leadership in PR; 3) contributions to the PR track; and 4) professional excellence. 

2016: Natasha Paulmeno & Samara Tu
2017: Tish Carmona
2018: Elizabeth Fletcher & Alyssa Zinar
2019: Gillian Casey
2022: Daisy Yu                                                                     
2023: Brooke Ivler                                                                   
2024: Leah Weiss
2025: Emma Seifer
2026: Briana May 

Named for Vincent Tran (1994-2016) who was a PRSSA, an InTERPret officer and former TA. The award will be presented to an undergraduate public relations student who celebrates multiculturalism and professionalism in public relations. Applications will be available in late March. 

Named for an outstanding graduate student community builder known for her informal mentoring, participation in shared governance, and contributions to student groups. Dr. Yang's excellence in research, service, and teaching flowed from her deep commitments to supporting colleagues and developing community because, in her words, "we all do better when everyone does better." Presented in recognition of extraordinary contributions by a graduate student to the community of the Department of Communication, the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, and/or surrounding region. The award includes financial support for conference travel and networking. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, but students self-nominating should discuss the nomination with their advisor and secure the necessary letter of support. Nominees must submit a current CV and a one-page letter detailing their contributions to community. A letter of support from a member of the Department of Communication should be included in the nomination package. Any Ph.D. student in good standing in the department is eligible for the Yang Award, but preference will be given to advanced graduate students in residence. Nominations must be submitted electronically to the chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee by the second Friday in April. 

2024: Alisa Hardy & Kalin Schultz
2025: Viktoriia Savchuk Kennet

• 
  Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development
• Best Journalism and Mass Communication History Book Award
• The Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service
• The Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award
• Covert Award
• The Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research
  • James Grunig, 2000
• The AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award
• AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize
• Krieghbaum Under 40 Award

• 
  Steven H. Chaffee Career Achievement Award
• James W. Carey Urban Communication Award
• Outstanding Book Award
• Applied Research Award
• Outstanding Article Award
• Young Scholar Award
• B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award
• ICA Fellows Book Award
• ICA Fellows

• 
  Donald Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education
• Wallace A. Bacon Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award
• Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship or Distinguished Service in Family Communication
• Charles H. Woolbert Research Award
• Diamond Anniversary Book Award
  • Trevor Parry-Giles, 2007
• Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award
• Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award
  • James F. Klumpp, 2014
• Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
• Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship
• Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
  • James Kimble, 2003
  • Timothy Barney, 2013
  • Adam Richards, 2014
  • Nick Joyce, 2015 (as faculty; for doctoral dissertation at the University of Arizona)
  • Michael J. Steudeman, 2017
• Golden Anniversary Monographs Award
• Winans-Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric & Public Address
  • Carly S. Woods, 2019
• James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay Award in Rhetoric
  • Theresa Donofrio, 2007
• Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award
• Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance
• Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies
• Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication
• Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award
  • Yvonne Slosarski, 2017
• Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award
• Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award
• NCA Distinguished Scholars

• 
  Distinguished Service Award
  • Trevor Parry-Giles, 2020
• ECA Article of the Year Award
• Everett Lee Hunt Award
  • Shawn J. Parry-Giles, 2003
  • Trevor Parry-Giles, 2003
• Applied Urban Communication Research Grant
• ECA Centennial Scholarships
  • Timothy Barney, 2010
  • Theresa Donofrio, 2011
  • Sean Luechtefeld, 2012
  • Michael Steudeman, 2014
  • Stephanie Madden, 2015
  • Victoria Ledford, 2022
• Ecroyd Teaching Excellence Award
  • Andrew Wolvin, 2016
• Past Officers' Award
  • Trevor Parry-Giles, 2007
• ECA Distinguished Research Fellows
  • James F. Klumpp, 2000
  • Kathleen Kendall, 2005
  • Mari Boor Tonn, 2007
  • Trevor Parry-Giles, 2011
• ECA Distinguished Teaching Fellows
  • Andrew Wolvin, 1998
  • Mari Boor Tonn, 2003
  • Kathleen Kendall, 2005
  • James F. Klumpp, 2007
  • Trevor Parry-Giles, 2016

• Board of Regents Faculty Award
• Creative and Performing Arts Award
• Departmental Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching
  • Department of Communication, 2000
• Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award
  • Edward L. Fink, 1988–89
  • Kathleen Hall Jamieson, 1981–82
  • Xiaoli Nan, 2020–21
• Distinguished University Professor
• Elkins Professorship
• Faculty Disability Achievement Award
• Global Partnerships-Faculty Travel Grants
• Invention of the Year Awards
• Joint Research Workshops
• Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize
• Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award
• Lilly-CTE Teaching Fellows
  • Sahar Khamis, 2011–12
    • Meina Liu, 2010–11
    • Leah Waks, 2003–04
    • Robert Gaines, 2003–04
    • Linda Aldoory, 2002–03
    • Andrew Wolvin, 1998–99
• Minority Achievement Awards for Faculty
• Outstanding Woman of the Year Award
• The President's Medal
• The Regents Professorship
• Research & Scholarship Awards (RASA)/Faculty-Student Research Awards (FSRA)
  • Lindsey Anderson, 2015 (Summer); 2019 (Summer)
  • Kristy Maddux, 2014 (Semester)
  • Xiaoli Nan, 2009; 2013 (Semester); 2016 (Summer)
  • Sahar Khamis, 2010 (Summer); 2020 (FSRA)
  • Shawn J. Parry-Giles, 2010 (Semester); 2021 (FSRA)
  • Trevor Parry-Giles, 2011 (Semester); 2004; 2001
  • Erich Sommerfeldt, 2017 (Summer)
  • Damien Pfister, 2019 (Semester)
  • Michelle Murray Yang, 2016 (Summer)
  • JiYoun Kim, 2020 (FSRA)
  • Anita Atwell Seate, 2019 (Semester)
  • Sun Young Lee, 2021 (FSRA)
• Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards
  • Shawn J. Parry-Giles, 2017
  • Trevor Parry-Giles, 2019
  • Anita Atwell Seate, 2020
• Outstanding Director of Graduate Studies Award
  • Shawn J. Parry-Giles, 2014
• Research Communicator Impact Award
  • Sahar Khamis, 2019

• Flagship Fellowships
  • William Howell, 2014
  • Stephanie Madden, 2014
  • Randall Fowler, 2016
  • Samantha Stanley, 2016
  • Naette Lee, 2017
  • Kathryn Their, 2019
  • Jin Choi, 2020
  • Alisa Hardy, 2021
  • Faith Otchere, 2021
• McNair Graduate Fellowships
  • Ari Perez Montes, 2019
• Summer Research Fellowships
  • Xinyan Zhao, 2013
  • Megan Fitzmaurice, 2016
  • Sifan Xu, 2017
  • Nora Heist, 2019
  • Jungkyu Lim, 2019
  • Darrian Carroll, 2021
  • Matthew Salzano, 2021
  • Duli Shi, 2021
• Kulkarni Summer Research Fellowships
• International Graduate Research Fellowships
• Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships
  • Megan Fitzmaurice, 2017
  • Rebecca Alt, 2018
  • Rong Ma, 2018
  • Lauren Hunter, 2019
  • Samantha Stanley, 2019
  • Jungkyu Rhys Lim, 2020
  • Naette Lee, 2021
• Lee Thornton Dissertation Fellowship
• Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowships
  • Michael Steudeman, 2015–16
• Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Awards
  • Meridith Styer, 2018
• All - S.T.A.R. Fellowships
  • Irina Iles, 2016
• Outstanding Graduate Assistant Awards
  • Irina Iles, 2015
  • Annie-Laurie Nichols, 2016
  • Meridith Styer, 2016
  • Luke Capizzo, 2017
  • Samantha Stanley, 2017
  • Zexin Ma, 2018
  • Alyson Farzad-Phillips, 2018
  • Hagar Attia, 2019
  • Nora Heist, 2020
  • Gareth Williams, 2020
  • Skye de Saint Felix, 2021
  • Victoria Ledford, 2021
  • Alex Thomas, 2022
  • Xiaojing (Romy) Wang, 2022
  • Yumin Yan, 2022
• CIC-Smithsonian Research Fellowship
• Three-Minute Thesis Video Award
  • Brooke Fowler, 2018 (Finalist)
• Dr. Mabel S. Spencer Award for Excellence in Graduate Achievement
• Dr. James W. Longest Award Memorial Award for Social Science Research
• The Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study
  • Irina Iles, 2017
  • Zexin Ma, 2018
• Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Award
  • Max Erdemandi, 2021

• The Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship
  • William Howell, 2018
• University of Maryland Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award—ARHU Nomination
  • Michael Steudeman, 2017
  • Meridith Styer, 2018
  • Megan Fitzmaurice, 2019
• James F. Harris Arts & Humanities Visionary Scholarship
  • Megan Fitzmaurice, 2016
  • Darrian Carroll, 2021