Distributed annually by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, Faculty Research Awards support scholarship, creative projects, and quantitative or qualitative research from all disciplinary backgrounds.
“My congratulations to this year’s award winners,” said Anshuman “AR” Razdan, vice president for research and innovation. “The winning projects represent the array of scholarly excellence of our faculty across the colleges and schools at the UO.”
Awards went to faculty representing the fields of anthropology, art history, creative writing, and disability history, as well as members of the interdisciplinary units of East Asian Languages and Literatures; Planning, Public Policy, and Management; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Awardees will receive a summer stipend of $7,000 or up to $10,000 for research expenses during the coming fiscal year, to be spent on travel, supplies, contractual services, publication, and student effort.
Program applications were open to all tenure track faculty members as well as career research faculty members engaged in substantial research. A committee of UO faculty members appointed by the University Senate provided peer review of the merit of the proposals and furnished their recommendations and rankings to the vice president for research and innovation.
The 2025 Faculty Research Award recipients are:
- Nina Amstutz, associate professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture
- Marjorie Celona, associate professor, Creative Writing Program
- Maria Fernanda Escallon, associate professor, Department of Anthropology
- Alisa Freedman, professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
- Stephen Frost, professor, Department of Anthropology
- Patrick Hunnicutt, assistant professor, School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management
- Vera Keller, professor, Department of History
- Yvette Saavedra, associate professor, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Yizhao Yang, professor, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management