Awards & Recognition
Dr. Naber’s awards and recognitions. affirm the collective work and community-based relationships at the heart of her projects. They are an acknowledgment of research and activism that emerges in partnership with community-based researchers, movement lawyers and social movements and policy processes.
Summary
Dr. Naber has received numerous awards for her research, including The MacArthur Foundation Community-Based Research Award (2023); Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Lifetime Achievement Prize, American Studies Association (2022); Andrew W. Mellon Humanities without Walls Grand Research Challenge Award (2021); and YWCA’s (2020).
She is the recipient of the Arab American Book Award (Arab American National Museum) and grants, awards, and recognitions from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Open Societies Foundation; and the Ford Foundation, the OpEd Project (Exceptional Leaders in the Community); and the Silver Circle Teaching Award. She serves as a Distinguished Speaker for the American Studies Association. In 2024, she received the distinguished title, University Scholar, from the University of Illinois system which “recognizes outstanding members of the faculty” and “represents recognition of their excellence.”
Margurite Casey Foundation 2024 Freedom Scholar: Dr. Nadine Naber
Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) is thrilled to announce the newest cohort of Freedom Scholars, a prestigious award recognizing exceptional scholar-activists committed to advancing justice and equity.
2022 Spring YWomen Film
6-minute segment in the 2022 Spring YWomen Film, produced by Susan Hope Engel as part of the YWCA YWomen Leadership Celebration. Nadine Naber is a 2022 Recipient of the YWomen Leadership Award.
Faculty Diversity Fellow, University of Michigan
2012-2013: Faculty Diversity Fellow, University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School
Open Societies Foundation, International Fellow
2016:**Open Societies Foundation, International Fellow**
Silver Circle Teaching Award, UIC
2018: Silver Circle Teaching Award, UIC
The OpEd Project
2021: The OpEd Project, Exceptional leaders in the community recognition.
YWCA YWomen’s Leadership Award
2022: YWCA YWomen’s Leadership Award
Andrew W. Mellon
2022: Andrew W. Mellon, Humanities without Walls, Research Challenge Award for the project, Amplifying Mother-Survivors of State Violence.
Macarthur Foundation Award
2021: Macarthur Foundation Award, for research on the Status of Racial Justice for Arab Americans
American Studies Association’s 2022
Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize – Lifetime Achievement Award
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