June 11, 2025
Faculty/staff honors: Innovation grant, best paper, outstanding research award
Recent recognition of the 香蜜影视 includes an EarthLab Innovation Grant, the Best Paper Award from American Political Science Association and honorable recognition mention from the American Society for Theatre Research.香蜜影视
Recent recognition of the 香蜜影视 includes an EarthLab Innovation Grant, the Best Paper Award from American Political Science Association and honorable recognition mention from the American Society for Theatre Research.
UW professor Richard Watts and team awarded EarthLab Innovation Grant
, UW associate professor of French, is part of an interdisciplinary team from the UW that received an to support their collaborative project, 鈥淟ife in Spite of It All: Water, Wetlands, and Reclamation in a Changing Climate.鈥澨�听
The $80,000 grant, awarded through EarthLab鈥檚 2024鈥�25 funding cycle, supports a team that also includes additional members of the UW faculty: , remote-sensing scientist in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, and听, professor of international studies and director of the Jackson School of International Studies. Independent wetlands scholar and visual artist rounds out the team. The project focuses on documenting climate change and cultural resilience in a threatened wetlands region of the Senegal River Valley in southwestern Mauritania.听听
鈥淭his grant enabled our Seattle-based research and filmmaking team to conduct a second site visit to the region,鈥� Watts said. 鈥淭he footage the team gathered is now being edited for a documentary film that explores the environmental and human stakes of a disappearing landscape.鈥�听
Political science faculty honored for research on religion, policy and economic discrimination
, UW associate professor of political science, received the from the American Political Science Association鈥檚 (APSA) Religion & Politics Section.听
The award honors the best paper presented at the previous year鈥檚 APSA Annual Meeting that exemplifies the section鈥檚 mission: encouraging the study of the interrelations between religion and politics. Recipients are recognized for addressing timely and relevant topics in a theoretically innovative and methodologically rigorous way.听
Cansunar was recognized for her co-authored work, 鈥淗omogenizing the High Street: The Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination,鈥� which explores the complex interplay between faith and policy. She sees the award as a meaningful affirmation of her scholarship in a field that is continuously evolving.听
鈥淩eceiving this award recognizes my work on the interplay between faith and policy,鈥� she said. 鈥淭his recognition encourages further thoughtful analysis of the intersection between religion and politics, both within academia and beyond.鈥�听
Theatre professor Stefka Mihaylova earns recognition for debut monograph
, UW associate professor of theatre theory and criticism, received honorable mention for from the American Society for Theatre Research.听
The honors exceptional research and scholarship in theatre history and is one of the most prestigious recognitions in the field. The honorable mention highlights Mihaylova鈥檚 debut monograph, 鈥淰iewers in Distress: Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the 21st Century.鈥�听
In the book, Mihaylova examines how avant-garde performance art engages with identity, faith and social distress, offering new insights into the political power of live performance.听
鈥淭his is an award for my first monograph Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the 21st Century,鈥� Mihaylova said.听
