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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
Bryan Washington awarded two top literary prizes
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