Awards and Honors Archives - UCLA Humanities

Harryette Mullen receives lifetime achievement award from Academy of American Poets

The English professor was honored for bringing readers to “the thrilling edges of what language is capable of.”

Daria Bahtina, Seonkyung Jeon, Lauri Mattenson, Javier Patiño Loira and Katarina Yuan were recognized for their excellence in the classroom.

The English professor explores how storytelling can influence what we know about the environment and how we act on it.

Among her award-winning books is “Eugenic Nation,” which examines the broad reach of eugenics in the U.S. throughout the 20th century.

Although she has taught Russian and Czech at UCLA for 30 years, the senior lecturer says she has never run out of new things to discover.

“Forms of Mobility” highlights evolving centers of literary influence since the mid-20th century in Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The Writing Programs lecturer is the first UCLA representative to take part in an initiative organized by Campus Compact.

As an undergraduate, the applied linguistics major was deeply involved in research on language acquisition and cochlear implants.

A reviewer called it a “masterful piece of work — theoretically adept, ethnographically attuned, moving and engagingly written.”

Stephanie Bosch Santana, Jennifer Jung-Kim, Barbara Fuchs and Victoria Mateu received awards to support their teaching and research.