Faculty and Staff Awards
YEARNAMEAWARD
2024Amy SimonHonors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students: Honors College Undergraduate Research Seminar: Holocaust Testimony in the Digital Age, every year for the past six years (exception 2022-2023 and Steve before his retirement)
2024Lynn WolffHonors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students: Honors College Undergraduate Research Seminar: Holocaust Testimony in the Digital Age, every year for the past six years (exception 2022-2023 and Steve before his retirement)
2024Steve GoldHonors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students: Honors College Undergraduate Research Seminar: Holocaust Testimony in the Digital Age, every year for the past six years (exception 2022-2023 and Steve before his retirement)
2024Deborah Margolis Honors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students: Honors College Undergraduate Research Seminar: Holocaust Testimony in the Digital Age, every year for the past six years (exception 2022-2023 and Steve before his retirement)
2024Noah KayeAda Weintraub Finifter Scholarship for the Study of Romaniote Jews
2023Ariana MentzelPartnership Award by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion for contributions to the “Conversations on Antisemitism and Islamophobia,” and for providing scenarios for the MSU Dialogues on Intersectionality
2023 Amy SimonPartnership Award by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion for contributions to the “Conversations on Antisemitism and Islamophobia,” and for providing scenarios for the MSU Dialogues on Intersectionality
2023Yael Aronoff
2023Kirsten FermaglichPartnership Award by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion for contributions to the “Conversations on Antisemitism and Islamophobia,” and for providing scenarios for the MSU Dialogues on Intersectionality
2023Laura Yares2023 Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) award
2022Galit PelledDFI Session I
2022Amy SimonTeacher Scholar Award at MSU
2022Yore KedemOutstanding Service to Education Abroad Award
2016Yael AronoffHARP
2019Kirsten FermaglichAmerican Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book Prize
2019Steve GoldAmerican Sociological Association, International Migration Section Distinguished Career Award
2019Steve GoldFund for the Advancement of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Israel Grant for Distinguished Scholars 
2019Eric AronoffHARP
2019Kenneth WaltzerMSU Faculty Emeriti Association “Outstanding Contributions by an Individual Award”
2021Laura YaresResearch Grant Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University
2021Matthew HandelmanHARP
2021Amy SimonHARP
2021Lynn WolffHARP
2021Ben LorchKen and Sandy Waltzer Teaching Excellence Awards at JMC
2019Deborah MargolisCharles A. Gliozzo Award for Public Diplomacy
2016Lynne GoldsteinDistinguished Career Award given by the Midwest Archaeological Conference.
2015Viki GietzelJoAnn Vanden Bergh Non–Academic Staff Award
2015Yael AronoffMSU John K. Hudzik Emerging Leader in Advancing International Studies and Programs
2013Kirsten FermaglichHARP research grant for spring 2014
2013Benjamin PollockJordan Schnitzer Prize for best book (in the past four years) in the field of Jewish thought and philosophy
2011Yael AronoffTeacher Scholar Award at MSU
2011Eric AronoffTeacher Scholar Award at MSU
2011Benjamin PollockSalo Baron Prize for outstanding first book in Jewish Studies
2010Ilana BlumbergTeacher Scholar Award at MSU
2010Mary M. Juzwik2010 Edward B. Fry Award by the Literary Research Association
2010Eli Yassifthe Bahat Prize, for an academic book
2009Kirsten FermaglichMSU Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative Award
2008Ilana BlumbergSami Rohr Jewish Literature Choice Award
2008Steve GoldCharles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology from the Michigan Sociology Association (2007).
2006Marc BernsteinFintz Teaching Excellence Awards in Arts and Humanities given by the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and
Humanities