Kiese Laymon, NYT List of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Gisela Heffes: Awardee of the 2022-23 Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professors Award

Luis Duno-Gottberg: One of the Winners of the 2023 IES Abroad Faculty-Led Program Awards

Fette awarded Fulbright grant to research migration, citizenship in French children’s literature

Rice’s Kiese Laymon awarded ‘genius grant’ MacArthur Fellowship

Alex Byrd named a Piper Professor

Anthony Pinn Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

English professor Tomás Morín wins prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

Rice wins NEH grant to create digital database of the Atlantic slave trade

English professor Johnson wins Guggenheim Fellowship

Pulitzer Prize awarded to Rice history professor

López-Durán 2019 Robert Motherwell Book Award

Aysha Pollnitz Awarded a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship

Kiese Laymon Awarded 2022 United States Artist Award and the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Fiction

Nathan Citino Wins Scholar’s Award from Truman Library Institute to Support Research for Upcoming Book

Kirsten Ostherr Awarded 2021 DeBakey Fellowship

Sophie Esch Receives 2019 Latin American Studies Association Prize