Mazyar Mahan

Honors and Teaching Awards

  • Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, 2025–2026
  • President’s Teaching Excellence Award for Teaching Assistants (Honorable Mention), 2024–2025
  • Victor Worsfold Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant, 2023–2024
  • President’s Teaching Excellence Award for Teaching Assistants (Nominated), 2023–2024

Scholarly Fellowships and Research Grants

  • Mala and Adolph Einspruch Fellowship and Selwin Belofsky Fellowship, 2025–2026
  • Elfenworks Hope for Climate and Social Justice Development Fund, 2025
  • Mike Jacobs Fellowship, 2024–2025
  • Jonelle & Bryce Jordan Scholarship in the Arts, 2024–2025 and Spring 2023
  • Harry W. Bass Jr. Graduate Research Award, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
  • Istvan and Zsuzsanna Ozsváth Research Award, 2023–2024 and 2021–2022
  • Anthony (Tony) Cross Memorial Student Support Fund, Fall 2023
  • Armstrong Fellowship Scholarship, 2021–2022

Selected Travel Awards and Conference Grants

  • SCMS Transnational Cinemas SIG Travel Grant Spring 2025
  • SCMS Middle East Caucus Travel Grant, Spring 2024
  • Mabel H. Bremer Travel Award, 2023–2024 and 2021–2022
  • Betty and Gifford Johnson Travel Award, 2022–2023 and 2021–2022
  • Graduate Student Assembly Travel Award, 2022–2023