Jane Chance's Honors and Awards

Fellowships, Directorships, Scholarships, and Grants:

• Rice University Research Grant $2000 for Index to Women Medievalists in the Academy 2004
• V.I.P. Invitation to OneRingNet.Com Oscar Party, for Peter Jackson’s Return of the King, American Legion of Honor, Hollywood, Feb. 29, 2004.
• Rice University Annual Research Grant ($3000) 2003-2008
• NEH Fellowship, Center for Medieval Studies, St.Louis University, St.Louis, Missouri, Feb. 16-March 21, 2003.
• Mellon Fellowship, Vatican Film Library, St.Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, March 22-April 12, 2003.
• Subsidy, Sagas and Societies Conference, European Culture 2000 Fund, Bogarnes, Iceland Sept. 5-9, 2002
• Rice University Research Grant ($4000) 2002-3
• Rice University Publication Subvention ($5000) for Women Medievalists in the Academy (forthcoming, University of Wisconsin Press, 2004).
• Rice University Nominee, NEH Senior Summer Fellowship, 2001 Fall, 2000
• Member, SCMLA 1999 Book Prize Committee Spring, 1999
• Fellow, Rice University Center for the Study of Cultures, fall, 1998
• Directorship, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on "The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women," Rice University, Houston, TX June 9-July 18, 1997
• Rice University Allison Sarofim Distinguished Faculty Teaching Fellow, Workshop on "Interpreting the Humanities at Rice" fall, 1995
• Eccles Research Fellow, University of Utah O. C. and Grace Tanner Humanities Center, 1994-95
• Visiting Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, Scotland May 27-July 23, 1994
• Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. 1988-89
• Rice University Andrew Mellon Academic Leave 1988-89
• Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, Lake Como, Italy July 1988
• Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on "Chaucer and Mythography" 1985
• ACLS Travel Grant, New Chaucer Society, York, England 1984
• Rice University Summer Research Grants, various, including 1984-86, 1992, 1994-2001
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1980-81
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship For Independent Study and Research 1977-78
• Honorary Research Fellowship, University College, London 1977-78
• University of Illinois Dissertation Fellowship 1970-71 (Top NDEA IV Fellowship Candidate University-Wide the year NDEA cancelled)
• NDEA IV Fellowship (University of Illinois) 1967-70
• Purdue Graduate Fellowship 1967-68 (declined)
• University of Washington Graduate Assistantship 1967-68 (declined)
• University of Wisconsin Graduate Tuition Waiver 1967-68 (declined)
• Purdue University Merit Tuition Waivers 1963-67
• USAREUR College Scholarship 1963
• Heidelberg American Officers' Wives' Club Scholarship 1963

Awards and Honors:

• Edited book collection, Tolkien the Medievalist, finalist, 2004 Mythopoeic Award for Scholarship on the Inklings
• Nominee, Executive CDommittee, Medieval Academy of America Fall, 2000
• Book (Mythographic Chaucer, 1996) selected as representative of ninties criticism on Chaucer, in Geoffrey Chaucer: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: Essays-Articles-Reviews, ed. Jodi-Anne George, Columbia Critical Guides (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 2000), 148-53.
• Participant, Summer Institute on "Issues and Resources in Central Europe for Research on the Middle Ages," Dept. of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary/Center for Medieval Studies, Charles University/Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague/CARA, Medieval Academy of America July 17-Aug. 10, 2000
• Listing, Who's Who in the World, Millennium Edition 2000
• Member, SCMLA Book Prize Committee Spring, 1999
• Certificate of Achievement, Outstanding Efforts for Faculty Awareness and Advocacy, Texas Faculty Association 1998
• IMPACT Award for Outstanding Rice Faculty Woman for Contributions to Women, Rice University Women’s Resource Center 1998
• Nominee, Outstanding Rice Faculty Woman Award for Contributions to Women, Rice University Women's Resource Center 1997, 1998
• Research Assistance, Pamela Highet, California State University-Chico Pre-doctoral Fellow, CSU Pre-Doctoral Summer Research Grant, Summer, 1997
• Nominee, 1997 Brown Prize for Best Book, Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, Medieval Academy of America
• Nominee, 1997 Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
• Listing, Who's Who in America 1995-
• 1994 SCMLA Book Award, for Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, AD 433-1177 1995

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