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2020 Prytanean Faculty Award: Henrike Lange

Mar 30, 2020

Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor Henrike C. Lange on receiving the 2020 Prytanean Faculty Award!

Since 1986, The Prytanean Honor Society Alumnae Association awards annually a financial grant to an outstanding woman junior faculty member on the Berkeley campus. Through a competitive process, the winner is chosen for her record as a distinguished teacher, her demonstrated scholarly achievement, and her success as a role model for students at the University of California, Berkeley.

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MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies: Diego Pirillo

Dec 11, 2019

Please join us in congratulating Professor Diego Pirillo!

The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its tenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies to Diego Pirillo, of the University of California, Berkeley, for The Refugee-Diplomat: Venice, England, and the Reformation, published by Cornell University Press.

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Charles Hall Grandgent Award: Mariagrazia De Luca

Sep 16, 2019 
Mariagrazia De Luca, Ph.D. Student in Italian Studies, has been awarded the Charles Hall Grandgent Award from the Dante Society of America for her essay “From Forced Readers to Freedom Writers: Responding to Dante in Postcolonial Somalia.”  The prize is offered for “the best essay submitted by a student enrolled in any graduate program in the US, US territories, or Canada.” Congratulations, Mariagrazia!

BARBARA SPACKMAN’S “ACCIDENTAL ORIENTALISTS” WINS PRIZES

Jan 24, 2019

Professor Barbara Spackman‘s book Accidental Orientalists: Modern Italian Travelers in Ottoman Lands, published by Liverpool University Press in July 2017, has recently won two prizes:

The 2017 American Association for Italian Studies Prize for the Best Book in the category of Renaissance, 18th and 19th Centuries, and

The 2017 Modern Language Association Howard R. Marraro Prize Honorable Mention (pictured, photo credit Edward Savaria, Jr.).

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National Humanities Center Fellowship: Mia Fuller

May 15, 2018

Congratulations to Professor Mia Fuller, who has been awarded a prestigious National Humanities Center Fellowship for her book project on “Mussolini Threshing Still: Inertia Memoriae, Italy, and Fascist Monuments.” She will be spending the 2018-19 academic year in Durham, North Carolina.