AHSS faculty and students are often recognized for their outstanding contributions to education, their fields of research and the community.

Here are some of our most recent achievements

• Seth Masket, associate professor and chair of the political science department, received the 2013 Heinz I. Eulau Award from the American Political Science Association for best article published in the journal Perspectives on Politics during the previous calendar year. 
• The DU Bioethics debate team placed 2nd in a national competition held at Georgetown University in April.
• Reflection, a project by School of Art and Art History Professor Lawrence Argent, was selected as one of the top 50 projects in the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network 2013 Year in Review awards competition.
• Psychology graduate student Shelby Scott received the 2013 Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant from the American Psychological Foundation.
• Associate Professor of English Laird Hunt was one of five recipients of the 2013 Anisfield-Hunt Book Awards for his fictional novel, Kind One .
• Eryn Green, PhD candidate in the English department, was selected the 2013 Yale Series of Younger Poets winner for his book ERUV 
• Christof Demont-Heinrich, associate professor in media, film & journalism studies, is the recipient of a 2013-2014 Fulbright scholar grant. He will conduct research for a book project, Hanging on to German in an English Dominant World, at the University of Hamburg, Germany
• The anthropology department received History Colorado's Stephen H. Hart Award for Historic Preservation for research conducted at the Ludlow Tent Colony site in southern Colorado
• Assistant Professor Alison Krogel, department of languages and literatures, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year in Ecuador
• Assistant Professor David Ciepley, political science, has been named the Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University for the 2013-2014 academic year.