Celebrating FAS Award Winners
This message announces the winners of the 2024-25 Heyman and Greer prizes for scholarship. Congratulations to the honorees!
The FAS Dean's Office is delighted to announce the recipients of FAS-wide awards for scholarship. Please join me in congratulating the winners of the Samuel ’60 and Ronnie ’72 Heyman Prize and the Arthur Greer Memorial Prizes.
Samuel ’60 and Ronnie ’72 Heyman Prize
The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize recognizes outstanding scholarly publications or research by a ladder faculty member in the humanities who is untenured at the time that the work is completed or published.
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
Assistant Professor of English
Mukhopadhyay was awarded the Heyman prize in recognition of her insightful book, Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire. Mukhopadhyay is a scholar of the literary history of South Asia. In Required Reading, Mukhopadhyay combs through the archives of colonial South Asia to examine commonplace writing such as manuals, magazines, and almanacs to challenge our ideas of what “reading” is.
Arthur Greer Memorial Prizes
The Arthur Greer Memorial Prizes for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research recognizes outstanding research conducted by ladder faculty members in the social or natural sciences, broadly construed, who are untenured at the time that the work is completed or published. This year, we recognize two faculty members:
Samuel McDougle
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Samuel McDougle was awarded the Greer Prize in recognition of his groundbreaking work at the interface of cognition and action, which is reshaping the field’s understanding of motor behaviors with deep implications more broadly for human cognition. In 2024, he was awarded the Early Career Award by The Society for the Neural Control of Movement in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field.
Junliang Shen
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Junliang Shen was awarded the Greer Prize in recognition of his innovative research, which uses tools from algebraic geometry to solve questions and conjectures rooted in topology, geometry, and mathematical physics. Shen was previously recognized for this work by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with the 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship in mathematics.