Honors and Awards

Rebecca Cummins
Letter from the Chair 
December 16, 2025
Jane Brown
Jane and Marshall Brown win Prestigious Translation Prize
December 12, 2025
Martin Schwartz on Fassbinder's own couch from his Munich apartment, as seen in Deutschland im Herbst! (Photo credit Isabelle Bastian)
Graduate Student Update: Martin Schwartz Enjoys Banner Year
November 4, 2025
Inga Schwemin
Graduate Student Update: Inga Schwemin Wins Prestigious Awards
November 4, 2025
congrats
Congratulations to the Class of 2024-2025!
May 15, 2025
McLean Award 2025
Sammy McLean Awards 2025
May 14, 2025
Goethe Society of North America
UW and Goethe Studies
November 14, 2024
Goethe-Institut's Summer Academy in Dresden
Goethe-Institut's Summer Academy in Dresden
November 4, 2024
Congratulations to the 2024 German Graduates and Student Awardees
Congratulations to the 2024 German Graduates and Student Awardees!
May 23, 2024
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Chair's Letter Spring Newsletter 2024
May 15, 2024
Sammy McLeanAward
Sammy McLean Awards 2024
May 14, 2024
rafael balling
Prof. Rafael Balling has been awarded Jewish/Queer/Trans Fellowship at Frankel Institute
May 13, 2024
Annegret Oehme
I am First-Generation: Annegret Oehme
November 10, 2023
rachel lundeen
Rachel Lundeen wins prestigious Lederman Endowed Scholarship
May 5, 2023
Mushroom at the End of the World
Hanauer Seminar 2022-23 :: Environments in the 21st Century: Migration, Climate, Extinction, In/humanness, Non-Humans and Beyond
May 3, 2023
miah robert on a fulbright in dresden
News from our Alums: Miah Robert (BA 2022)
October 21, 2022
class of 2021-2022
Congratulations to the Class of 2022-2023!
May 9, 2022
Call for Submissions
German Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase
May 5, 2022
Fantastic Fungi
Hanauer Seminar 2021-22 :: Environments in the 21st Century: Migration, Climate, Extinction, In/humanness, Non-Humans and Beyond
May 4, 2022
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Spring 2021 Convocation: Video Link
July 13, 2021
sabine wilke
Congratulations to the Class of 2020 - 2021!
May 20, 2021
matthew childs
Graduate Student Update: Matthew Childs
May 17, 2021
Praewpetch (Pattie) Unakul
McLean Prize for Excellence in German: Praewpetch (Pattie) Unakul
May 6, 2021
Sabine Wilke
Hanauer Seminar 2020-21: Environments in the 21st Century
May 4, 2021
Madeline Bonner UW Perspectives magazine article
Madeline Bonner (BA 2020), Dean's Medalist in the Humanities, featured in July Perspectives Magazine
July 22, 2020
“Witchcraft. From History to Pop Culture”
Annegret Oehme receives TTFI Fellowship
June 9, 2020
Aaron Carpenter
Congratulations to Aaron Carpenter: Hanauer Fellow 2020-2021
June 9, 2020
Madeline Bonner
Madeline Bonner Selected for Dean’s Medal in the Humanities!  
May 25, 2020
Congratulations to the Class of 2019-2020
Congratulations to the Class of 2019-2020!
May 23, 2020
The image is from Maurice Sendak's illustration of Penthesilea.
Hanauer Seminar Projects 2019-20: Environments in the Anthropocene: Migration, Climate, Non-Humans and Beyond
May 21, 2020
Student Ambassador Miah Robert
Our new Student Ambassador Miah Robert
May 4, 2020
Special Issue "Environmental Imagination and German Culture"
Call for Papers: Special Issue "Environmental Imagination and German Culture"
April 29, 2020
Sabine Wilke
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Featured Scholar: Professor Sabine Wilke
December 10, 2019
Burke
Debunking Spider Myths
December 2, 2019
Katja Petrowskaja
Katja Petrowskaja: "Vielleicht Esther"
November 18, 2019
Isiaih Back-Gaal
Viennese Inqueeries: Queer Politics in Translation
October 23, 2019
Vanessa Hester
Congratulations to Vanessa Hester: Hanauer Fellow 2018-19 and Bansleben Summer Dissertation Stipend
June 14, 2019
Binh Truong
Congratulations to Binh Truong: Fulbright Combined Grant in Austria
June 14, 2019
Arts and Sciences Dean’s Medal Nominee Isaiah Back-Gaal
Arts and Sciences Dean’s Medal Nominee Isaiah Back-Gaal Reflects on His Experiences in the Department of Germanics
June 14, 2019
Verena Kick
Newly Minted PhD and Dean’s Graduate Medalist: Verena Kick
June 14, 2019
Chase Emrys Stamper
Newly Minted PhD and Go-Map Scholar: Chase Emrys
June 14, 2019
Drumheller Fountain June 2019
Departmental Convocation: Congratulations to the Class of 2018 - 2019!
June 14, 2019
Justin Mohler
Congratulations to Justin Mohler: Hanauer Fellow 2019-2020 and Bansleben Award for Excellence in Teaching
June 11, 2019
Matthew Childs
Congratulations to Matthew Childs: Hanauer Fellow 2019-2020
June 11, 2019
Sara Koeck
Congratulations to Sara Koeck: Germanics Student Ambassador Award
June 11, 2019
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
June 11, 2019
jane brown
Emerita News: Jane K. Brown, Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor of Western Civilization, (Germanics and Comparative Literature)
June 10, 2019
Heather Sullivan
Rethinking Plant-Human Relationships in the Anthropocene: Meet our Alumna Heather Sullivan (PhD 1995)
June 10, 2019
NEH
Pablo Neruda in D.C. Office - Humanities Advocacy Day
March 19, 2019
Sam Hylton
Alum News: Interview with Sam Hylton (BA 2014)
March 11, 2019