School of Arts and Sciences

Toni Shapiro-Phim, Author, “Performance: A Conversation Between Iman Aoun and Toni Shapiro-Phim.” In Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation, eds. Eliza Garnsey and Caitline Hamilton, Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.

Tory Fair, Installation, (Wild Knoll Garden, York, ME, 2024)

Muna Güvenç, Author, The City Is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey (Cornell University Press, 2024)

Sheida Soleimani, Grant, 2025 MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work

Aida Wong, Book Chapters,"Sacred Mountain and Lee Chun-Yi’s Planetary Order," in Mountain Moved Heard Moved: The Art of Lee Chun-Yi (Taipei: Mingshan Art Collection Co. Ltd, 2024) and "Gao Jianfu’s Aesthetic of Dilapidation: Modern Chinese Visuality and Its Relations to Japan and the Stele School," Japanese Art: Transcultural Perspectives. Edited by Melanie Trede, Christine Guth, and Mio Wakita (Leiden: Brill, 2024). Presenter, "Kang Youwei’s Antiquarian Calligraphy and Sino-Korean Confucian Revival as Political Activism" at Princeton University, Feb 10, 2025.

Yu-Hui Chang, Music Composition, "Mind Like Water" (New Focus Recordings, 2024). Grant Recipient, Fromm Music Foundation, 2024.

Karen Desmond, Book Chapter, Composers in the Middle Ages (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)

Neal Louis Hampton, Musical Adaptation, "Sense & Sensibility, The Musical" touring the United Kingdom, July-September 2025.

David Rakowski, Music Compositions, "We Music, We Eat" (2024); "Penalty Box 2" (2025); "Duover" (2025)

Lydian String Quartet, Performance, Beethoven's "Opt 135", Boston Symphony Orchestra, 2025.

Cameron Anderson, Set Design, The Library Lion, Boston Public Library (2024); Faust, The Academy of Vocal Arts (2024); Cosi Fan Tutte, The Academy of Vocal Arts (2025); Romeo and Juliet (2025)

Adrianne Krstansky, Performance,  Leopoldstadt, The Shakespeare Theater, DC (2024/25)

Mitsu Salmon, Solo Performance, Desert Turtle (Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago, IL, 3/2024 and Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA, 9/2024)

Dmitry Troyanovsky, Director, Romeo and Juliet, Prague Shakespeare Company, July 2024

Robert Walsh, Performance, A Winter's Tale, Shakespeare on the Common (Boston, MA, 2024)

Michael McGlin (CEMS) received a Center for Hellenic Studies Fellowship in 2024.

Eoin O'Donoghue (CEMS) received the 2024 Angela Caveness Weisskopf Research Fellowship from The Etruscan Foundation.

Jonathan Sarna (NEJS), 2024 Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award, American Jewish Historical Society. Read More.

Paola Servino (Romance Studies/Italian), 2024 Teacher of the Year, American Association for Teachers of Italian and Massachussettes Italian Teacher Association

Pu Wang (GRALL/Comparative Literature), Visiting Professorship, Institute of Advancement Studies of Chongqing University and Researcher, the Institute of Contemporary Art and Social Thought, China Academy of Art

Darlene Brooks Hedstrom (CEMS/NEJS) co-edited a book with William Caraher and Kostis Kourelis entitled Beyond Icons: Theories and Methods in Byzantine Archaeology in North America (Routledge, 2024).

Joel Christensen (CEMS) published the book, Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things (Yale University Press, 2025)

Irina Dubinina (GRALL), Co-editor, Russian as a Heritage Language: From Research to Classroom Applications (Routledge, 2024)

Peter Epstein (PHIL) published the chapter, "The Anti-Relationalist's Hard Problem" in The Relational View of Perception (Routledge, 2025)

Yuval Evri (NEJS) published the chapter "Natives Locals: A History of Mizrahim as Indigenous" for the book Black Brick: Mizrahim and Mizrahiness Writing a New Israeli Reality (2024)

Matthew Fraleigh (GRALL/EAS), Co-author, The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran (Columbia University Press, 2024)

Thomas King (ENG) published a chapter "From the Body Politic to Biopolitics" in The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature (2025), as well as the chapter, "Performing Transformative Climate Justice", published in The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism (2025).

Caren Irr (English), Editor, Environmental Futures: An International Literary Anthology (Chicago University Press, 2024)

Jon Levisohn (NEJS), Author, Teaching Historical Narratives: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Virtues of Historical Interpretation (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Kate Moran (Philosophy) published a chapter entitled "Kant on the Empirical Self" in the book, The Oxford Handbook of Kant (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Sophia Niehaus (French and Francophile Studies) was awarded an Albertine Cinémathèque Festival Grant by the Albertine Foundation and Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States. Read more.

Umrao Sethi (PHIL) published a chapter "A (Qualified) Defense of Diaphaneity" in The Relational View of Perception (Routledge, 2025).

Sabine Von Mering (GRALL, WGS, ENVS), Co-editor, The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism (Routledge, 2024)

Piali Sengupta (Biology), 2024 inductee to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Anne Berry (Psychology), Aging, Activity Diversity, and Brain Health

Alexandre Bisson (Biology), Archaea as a Microbial Model for Developmental Mechanoplasticity

Paul Garrity (Biology), Molecular and Cellular Determinants of Drosophila larva thermotaxis

Leslie Griffith (Biology), Regulation of Intrinsic Plasticity in Neural Circuits

James Haber (Biology), DNA Damage Response and Repair of Broken Chromosome

Lizbeth Hedstrom (Biology and Chemistry) and Isaac Krauss (Chemistry), Ubiquitin-Independent Targeted Protein Degradation (Transformative Research)

Sebastian Kadener (Biology), Uncovering the Origin and Mechanisms of Ultradian Rhythms in the Drosophila Brain; Systematic and Mechanistic Assessment of the Roles of circRNAs in Alzheimer's Disease

Julia Kardon (Biochemistry), Dynamic Control of Mitochondrial Function by the Protein unfoldase CLPX

Donald Katz (Psychology), Hippocampal-Gustatory Cortical Interactions Underlying Formation of Taste-space Cognitive Maps (with Shantanu Jadhav)

Michael Rosbash (Biology and Neuroscience), Addressing Protein Synthesis Regulation within Small Numbers of Discrete Neurons

Maria-Eirini Pandelia (Biochemistry), How Does a Metallocofactor In The Hepatitis B Viral Protein X Orchestrate Pathogenesis and Liver Cancer

Avital Rodal (Biology), Abberior 3D-STED Microscope for Super-Resolution Imaging

Jonathan Touboul (Mathematics), Collaborative Research: DMS/NIGMS 2: Dynamical Maintenance of Left-right Symmetry During Vertebrate Development

Stephen Van Hooser (Biology), Thalmocortical interactions in taste perception

Yangyang Wang (Mathematics), CRCNS: Evidence-based Modeling of Neuromodulatory Action on Network Properties

Angela Gutchess (Psychology), Defining Culture in Scientific Inquiry: Interdisciplinary and International Perspective

Michael Hagan (Physics), Computational modeling to determine strategies to optimize self-limited assembly and Collaborative Research: DMREF: Synthetic Machines from Feedback-controlled Active Matter

Pengyu Hong (Computer Science), Collaborative Research: Cultivating Tomorrow's Innovators Through Exploring Planetary Images with Artificial Intelligence

Eve Marder and Piali Sengupta (Biology), NiCE: Temperature Resilience of a Feeding Oscillator (also funded by the Kavli Foundation)

Tyler Maunu (Mathematics), Wasserstein Optimization in Data Science: Recovery and Sampling

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Institute of Education Sciences

Hannah Snyder (Psychology), A Multipronged Approach to Small-Teaching Interventions for Reducing Academic Procrastination: A Randomized Control Study via Terracotta

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Jané Kondev (Physics), Collaborative CZI Theory Grant: Control Without Feedback in Cells

Swartz Foundation

University of California, Berkeley

U.S. Department of Energy

Aram Apyan (Physics), Co-Investigator Gabriella Sciolla, Experimental Particle Physics Research at Brandeis University

Jon Anjaria (Anthropology), AIIS Long-Term Senior Research Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, 2024

Yuri Doolan (History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), received an honorable mention, First Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for his book The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America (Oxford University Press, 2024). He also received 11 months of funding via a Kluge Fellowship from The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

V Varun Chaudhry (Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies), 2024 Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars

Shai Feldman (Politics/Crown Center) co-authored the monograph Arabs and Israelis: From October 7 to Peacemaking, which is available in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.

Elizabeth Ferry (Anthropology), 2024-25 Visiting Fellow with The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at University of San Diego

Leah Gordon (Education) received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (prior to NEH program terminations) to work on her book in progress Imagining Opportunity: Education and Equality in Modern America.

Charlie Goudge (Anthropology), 2024 Wenner Gren Hunt Fellowship

Colleen Hitchcock (Environmental Studies), 2024-2025 US-UK Fulbright Commission's Global Challenges Teaching Award on Climate Change

Brian Horton (Anthropology), 2025-26 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer fellowship

Shoniqua Roach (Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies & African and African-American Studies), 2024 Constance M. Rourke Prize for Best Article, “The Black Living Room” (September 2022)

Naghmeh Sohrabi (History/Crown Center) has been awarded a 2025 Bellagio Center Residency by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Neil Swidey (Journalism), 2025 National Center for Community News CCN Champion; 2024 Biomedical Fellow, Logan Science Journalism Program

Michael Willrich (History), 2024 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in History for American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso (AAAS), grant-in-aid award from the Immigration History Research Centre Archives at the University of Minnesota

Patricia Alvarez Astacio (Anthropology) is a producer for the film "Backside" which will be premiering at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival this coming June.

Jon Anjaria (Anthropology) received funding from the Templeton Foundation for "Centering Covenantal Pluralism in the Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future."

Greg Childs (History) published a new book, Seditious Spaces: Race, Freedom, and the 1798 Tailors' Conspiracy in Bahia, Brazil (Cambridge Univ Press, 2025).

Emilie Connolly (History) has been awarded a Mandel Faculty Research Grant for her project, "Indigenous Wealth and Sovereignty: A Historical Approach."

Maura Farrelly (American Studies), Author, Compliments of Hamilton & Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier (Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press, 2024). Prof. Farrelly was awarded the 2025 Spur Award for Best Historical Nonfiction in March 2025 for this book.

Mark Hulliung (History, emeritus) published a new book, The Rise and Fall of English Radicalism, 1760-1800 (Routledge, 2025).

Prakash Kashwan (Environmental Studies), Co-author, Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Sarah Mayorga (Sociology), Co-author, A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio (Chicago University Press, 2024)

Sociology Profs. Sara Shostak, Rachel McKane, and Sarah Mayorga were awarded a MassHumanities grant for "Building Climate Resilience via Collective Memory: An Oral History of Flooding in Waltham, MA." They will be conducting research, alongside two undergraduate research assistants, in the Hardy Pond and Charles River area.

Sara Shostak (Sociology), Merck Family Fund, The Food Project.

Siri Suh (Sociology), Hewlett Foundation Grant (2021, 2023, and 2025), Into Women's Hands 

Derron Wallace (Education), Spencer Foundation Grant, "Policing for Safety in Schools? Exploring Black Youth’s Experiences of Restorative Justice"

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso (AAAS) received a grant-in-aid award from the Immigration History Research Centre Archives at the University of Minnesota, to conduct archival research during 2024 for her project on African Identities and Global Politics.