Haeden Stewart (Anthropology) was awarded the 2020 Lichtstern Dissertation Prize for his outstanding PhD dissertation, entitled In the Shadow of Industry: The Lively Decay of Mill Creek Ravine.

Graduate student Sarah Kautz (Anthropology) has won the 2019 New York State Historic Preservation Award for her advocacy work for the Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest & Ninevah (SANS). Sarah is currently the Preservation Director of Preservation Long Island.

Henry Bacha (Anthropology) was awarded the 2019 Dahlberg BA Essay Prize for his Honors Paper entitled "Resistance Through Re-Articulation: The Extirpation of Idolatries Campaigns and the Rise of the Cult of the Saints in Cusco, Peru."

Richard Neer was named the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College in 2018. Beginning in 2019, he will also become the new Director of the Franke Institute of the Humanities.

François Richard has been named a Faculty Fellow of the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR) at the University of Chicago for 2018-19, to pursue a project on "Politics of the Past & Material Expressions of Frenchness in the Municipio of San Rafael, Veracruz, Mexico."

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has named Wu Hung the 2019 Mellon Lecturer.

Nadine Moeller was awarded a 2018 Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Alain Bresson has been awarded a 2018 Guggenhein Fellowship to finish a book on the question of why the ancient Greeks developed a specific political form of money: coinage.

Claudia Brittenham has received an NEH Fellowship in 2018 to finish her book Unseen Art: Memory, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica.

Wu Hung will be awarded the College Art Association's Distinguished Scholar Award in 2018, for his career contributions in creating the field of contemporary Chinese art history.

Cécile Fromont's book The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo was awarded the 2017 Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association.

Jas' Elsner was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017.

Alain Bresson's book, The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy: Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States (Princeton, 2016), won the American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize for 2017.

Geneviève Godbout was awarded the 2017 Daniel Nugent Prize in Historical Anthropology for her PhD dissertation in the UChicago Anthropology Department, entitled: A House in Waiting: Food and Hospitality on Antiguan Plantations, 1783-1904. 

Emily Boak (Anthropology) won the 2017 Dahlberg BA Essay Prize for: "Militarized Landscapes and Cultural Heritage in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2001-2014."

In 2015, Ellen Platts (Anthropology) was awarded the Dahlberg BA Essay Prize for her BA Honors Paper “Ritual Lived Daily: Monumental and Pastoral Landscape Relationships in Bronze Age Central Mongolia”

In 2015, Matthew Knisley (Anthropology) was awarded the Society of Africanist Archaeologists Graduate Student Paper Prize for his paper: “Disciplinary Déjà Vu: Semiotic Ideologies of Primitivity and the Case of East African ‘Hunter-Gatherers.”

In 2015, Jason Ramsey was awarded the Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize for Historical Anthropology for Spaces of Possession: Negotiating 'Ruin' at the Mexican Periphery.

Cécile Fromont's book, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, was awarded the following prizes:

2015 Award for Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion;

2015 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize, Journal of Africana Religions;

Finalist, 2015 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association.

In 2014, Alain Bresson was named to the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professorship, University of Chicago. 

In 2013, Richard Neer was named the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago.

in 2013, Rebecca Graff (Anthropology) was awarded the Society for Historical Archaeology's Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Prize for The Vanishing City: Time, Tourism, and the Archaeology of Event at Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.

In 2013, Claudia Brittenham was awarded the Meiss/Mellon Author’s Award, College Art Association, for her book The Murals of Cacaxtla.

Michael Dietler's book, Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement , and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France (California, 2010), was awarded the 2012 James R. Wiseman Book Award of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Wu Hung's book Art of the Yellow Springs was selected for the 2012 National Cultural Heritage Award, One of the Ten Best Books on Art and Archaeology.

In 2012, Alan Kolata was named the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor.

In 2012, Wu Hung was elected as a Member of the American Philosophical Society.

Michael Dietler was awarded the 2011-12 EURIAS (European Institutes for Advanced Study) Senior Scholar Fellowship at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, Paris, France.

In 2011, Alexandra Hartnett (Anthropology) was awarded the Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize for Historical Anthropology for Legitimation and Dissent: Colonialism, Consumption, and the Search for Distinction in Galway, Ireland, ca 1250-1700.

Shannon Dawdy was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010.

In 2009 Jonathan Hall was awarded the University of Chicago's Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

He was also named the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities.

in 2009, Peter Johansen was awarded the Canadian Asian Studies Association (CASA) South Asia Council Best Canadian Dissertation on South Asia for A Political Economy of Space: Social Organization and the Production of an Iron Age Settlement Landscape in Northern Karnataka.

In 2008, Wu Hung received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Art Association.

Michael Dietler was named the 2007-08 Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California.

Wu Hung received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching at the University of Chicago in 2007.

Jonathan Hall's book Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture (Chicago, 2002), was awarded the 2004 Gordon J. Laing Award from the University of Chicago Press.

Michael Dietler was named the 2002-03 Weatherhead Foundation Resident Scholar at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Jonathan Hall's book Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge, 1997) was awarded the1999 Charles J. Goodwin Award for Merit from the American Philological Association.