CV – Awards & Scholarships

maria elena buszek : curriculum vitae
Professor of Art History
University of Colorado Denver, Department of Visual Arts
Office: CU Bldg. 800G
Mail: Campus Box 177, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364
e-mail: maria.buszek@ucdenver.edu
phone: 303/315.7413

SELECTED AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2022                University of Colorado President’s Teaching Scholar
Established in 1989 as a presidential initiative, the President’s Teaching Scholars Program endorses excellence in teaching by honoring faculty throughout the University of Colorado system’s four campuses whose work reflects excellence in both teaching and research. The awardee is granted lifetime PTSP membership in an active society of faculty across CU.

2019/2020   Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Nominee and Finalist
College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver

2018/2019  Excellence in Teaching Award
College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver 

2019  Bensussen Distinguished Arts Scholar
Chapman University Department of Art and Art History (Orange, CA)

2018  Elizabeth D. Gee Memorial Lectureship Nominee
The Elizabeth D. Gee Memorial Lectureship Award recognizes and honors an outstanding faculty member of the University of Colorado for efforts to advance women in academia, interdisciplinary scholarly contributions and distinguished teaching

2015/2016  Faculty Research and Creative Work Award
For research and creative work, College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver

2014/2015  Faculty Service Award
For academic and professional service, College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver

2014 Elizabeth D. Gee Memorial Lectureship Nominee

2014 Faculty Recognition Award
For service to the University of Colorado Denver Academic Prioritization Committee, University of Colorado Denver Faculty Assembly and the Office of the Provost

2011-12 Lo Presti Prize: Best Essay Collection
Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art, Art Libraries Society of North America

2008 Craft Research Fund Project Grant
For Extra/ordinary: Craft culture and contemporary art, Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design

2007 Emily Toth Book Award
Honorable Mention, Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

2006 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Nominee
Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, College Art Association

2000 Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize Nominee
“Representing ‘Awarishness,'” American Society for Theatre Research

1999 CAA Professional Development Award
Honorable Mention, College Art Association

1999 Murphy Dissertation Travel Grant
Kress Foundation Department of Art History, The University of Kansas

1994-1999 All-University Fellow, Graduate Minority Opportunity Fellowship
University of Kansas Graduate School

1998 TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies: Student Writing Award 
For “Representing ‘Awarishness’,” NYU Department of Performance Studies and The MIT Press

1996/97 Stokstad Teaching Award
Kress Foundation Department of Art History, The University of Kansas