Race, Indigeneity, and Scholar Support Committee Awards
The RISS Committee annually awards the Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award. This award honors scholars who demonstrate dedication to and excellence in mentoring, and was named after its inaugural recipient, Richard Yarborough. A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Yarborough is an American historian, literary critic, and co-editor of the Heath Anthology of American Literature series.
Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award
Submissions are currently closed, but will open later in 2026.
Nominations are considered “active” for three years, including the year of initial submission. Those submitting nominations are welcome to send updated or additional information every year during that time, to supplement the original nomination packet. Any supplements must be received by the deadline for submission of nominations of any given year.
Submitted materials should be representative, rather than exhaustive. Total materials submitted should not exceed 25 pages.
Past Winners
- 2025: Shirley Moody-Turner, Penn State University
- 2024: Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, University of California, Irvine
- 2023: Prof. Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany, University of Southern California
- 2022: Jean O’Brien, University of Minnesota
- 2020 Frances Aparicio, Northwestern University
- 2019 Richard T. Rodríguez, University of California, Riverside
- 2018 Lisa Lowe, Yale University
- 2017 Ruth Wilson Gilmore, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
- 2016 Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 2015 Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University
- 2014 José Esteban Muñoz, New York University
- 2013 Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2012 Richard Yarborough, University of California, Los Angeles