Honors and Awards

Student members of the canoe family participate in the cleansing of the canoe during the Canoe Awakening in April 2023. Photo by Mark Stone.
"Creating spaces of possibility" for our Native Students, Faculty, and Staff
June 1, 2023
Faustino Hampson-Medina
Faustino Hampson-Medina, AIS minor, Chosen as Husky 100
May 12, 2022
Stuart Heslop, AIS and Linguistics major, Class of 2022, profile
Couldn't Be Prouder - AIS's First Departmental Honors Graduate
April 7, 2022
Laura De Vos smiling at camera
Laura De Vos, UW alum and indigenous studies scholar, wins Beatrice Medicine Award for Best Published Academic Essay
January 18, 2022
portrait Han Eckelberg left and Toelau Gasetoto right
OPIS Shines in Husky 100
June 10, 2021
Sierra Campbell 2020 Udall Scholar
Sierra Campbell Named 2020 Udall Scholar
November 23, 2020
Book Cover Reclaiming the Reservation with photo of Professor Harmon
Dr. Alexandra Harmon Awarded Western History Association Robert G. Athearn Award in 2020
November 23, 2020
Group photo all ocean nexus fellows
MEET THE OCEAN NEXUS INDIGENOUS OCEAN ECOLOGIES FELLOWS
November 19, 2020
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AIS student, Stuart Heslop wins  Thomas A. Lederman Endowed Scholarship
May 26, 2020
Sierra Red Bow and Reidar Kelstrup, Phi Beta Kappa invitees and AIS majors
American Indian Studies Students Honored as Phi Beta Kappa Invitees
April 13, 2020
Professor Charlotte Cote
Charlotte Coté to Present 16th annual Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture
February 13, 2020
Owen Oliver at the UW Intellectual House
AIS student, Owen Oliver, becomes a 2020 Champion for Change
January 29, 2020
Vancouver coastline view out of bookstore window
Living in Place: an Indigenous student’s perspective abroad — Corbett scholar Owen Oliver
November 19, 2019
Iisaaksiichaa Braine and Jean Dennison speaking about CAIIS at the welebaltx intellectual house
Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies receives $1.8M Mellon Foundation grant
September 23, 2019
"Raven's Journey" by Marvin Oliver, in the UW HUB
AIS Professor Emeritus Marvin Oliver to Receive UW’s 2019 Odegaard Award
January 23, 2019
Scott Pinkham
Scott Pinkham Receives Distinguished Alumni Award
October 9, 2018
Stephanie Fryberg
Dr. Fryberg appointed Gerberding University Professor
September 25, 2018
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
AIS Faculty Member Receives Fellowship Award
March 5, 2018
The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs
"The Sea Is My Country" Receives Three Major Awards
September 28, 2016
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Two AIS students honored as Dean's Medalists
June 22, 2016
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Elissa Washuta Receives Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award, Fremont Bridge Residency
May 20, 2016
My Body Is a Book of Rules
AIS Adviser Elissa Washuta named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award
September 14, 2015
Stephanie Riedl
AIS major Stephanie Riedl receives 2015 Bonderman Travel Fellowship
April 3, 2015
Shanoa Pinkham
2011-2012 Miss Yakama Nation Shanoa Pinkham!
July 25, 2011
Dian Million
Dian Million's "Felt Theory" Is an Award Finalist!
May 9, 2011