Highly Prestigious Award Recipients
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Peter UngarDistinguished Professor of Anthropology |
Marlon BlackwellDistinguished Professor, E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture |
Davis McCombsProfessor of English, Director of the Program in Creative Writing and Translation |
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Distinguished Professor Peter Ungar was selected to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2024, and he was selected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. He is known internationally for his research, which focuses on the ecology and evolution of animals of the past and present, from extinct human ancestors to extant Arctic mammals. Learn more about Ungar's research. |
Marlon Blackwell was elected as a member to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2023. Blackwell is Distinguished Professor of architecture and the E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, where he has taught since 1992. He is also founder and co-principal of his Fayetteville-based design practice, Marlon Blackwell Architects, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Read more about this prestigious honor. |
Poet Davis McCombs, director of the Program in Creative Writing and Translation in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship to support his creative work in 2017. He is the author of three volumes of poetry: Ultima Thule (Yale, 2000), Dismal Rock (Tupelo, 2007), and lore (University of Utah Press 2016). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Oxford American, and many other journals. View more information about this award. |
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Lynn F. JacobsDistinguished Professor of Art |
Geoffrey BrockDistinguished Professor of English |
Tricia StarksDistinguished Professor of History |
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Distinguished Professor of Art Lynn F. Jacobs received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2006 and 1992. She is a specialist in the art of Northern Europe in the late fourteenth through mid-sixteenth centuries. She has published four books -- one on Netherlandish carved altarpieces, one on Netherlandish painted triptychs, one on liminality in Netherlandish art, and, most recently, one on German fifteenth-century painted triptychs. In addition, she has received research grants from the Belgian-American Educational Foundation and a research fellowship from the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). Learn more about Jacobs and her work. |
Distinguished Professor of English Geoffrey Brock received a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for his work translating Italian literature. He is an American poet, translator, and editor, and he has taught Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas since 2005. He is the author of three books of poetry, the editor of the FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of numerous books of poetry, prose, and comics, mostly from Italian. His other awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Academy of American Poets, and the Stegner program at Stanford. Read more about Brock and his work. |
Distinguished Professor of History Tricia Starks has received recognition and several grants from the National Endownment for the Humanities. She is alos the director of the University of Arkansas Humanities Center. She has personally secured and managed over half a million dollars in grants for research and public programming. She also oversees the yearly distribution of faculty research grants, helps in development of research proposals, and organizes research workshops. In her own work, Starks investigates the intersection of culture and public health in the Russian and Soviet context. Her current research focuses on the anxieties around male health and vigor during the Soviet period and into the present day. Learn more about Starks and her awards. |
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Lynda L. CoonDean of the Honors College |
Robert Brady Cochran IIProfessor of English |
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Lynda L. Coon, dean of the Honors College and professor of history, was named a National Humanities Center Fellow in 2004-05. She has served as Dean of the Honors College since 2015. Since then, she has added a highly successful seminar series; an international experience, Honors Passport, run by the Honors College; and the Futures Hub, a life-design team. Coon is also a historian of the later Roman Empire and early medieval West. Her recent publications have discussed Dark Age rainbows, theologies of color in the early Middle Ages, sirens in liturgical books, and the history of Jesus in the period, ca. 600-900. Read more about Coon and her scholarship. |
Professor of English Robert Cochran received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988-89 for his work in folklore and popular culture. He has also been awarded three Fulbright lecturing assignments in Romania, Hungary and Korea. He has created and written articles and books on various topics. His books include Vance Randolph: An Ozark Life; Louise Pound: Scholar, Athlete, Feminist Pioneer; Our Own Sweet Sounds; Singing in Zion; A Photographer of Note: Arkansas Artist Geleve Grice; and Come Walk With Me: The Art of Dorris Curtis. Cochran also co-authored Lights! Camera! Arkansas!: From Broncho Billy to Billy Bob Thornton with his spouse, Suzanne McCray. In addition, Cochran has served as editor and co-author of the "Arkansas Character" series published by the University of Arkansas Press. View more information on Cochran and his work. |