Samuel G. Armistead

Honors

Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "From Epic to Ballad in the Hispanic Tradition" (1979)
National Endowment for the Humanities Grants (Texts/Editions category) (1981-2000, 2002-2004)
Lucius N. Littauer Foundation 1989, 1990, 1995, 1998)
Program for Cultural Cooperation (Spain and U.S. Universities) (1999-2002)
Digital Library Initiative-2 (1999-2002)
Amado Foundation (1999-2000)
Cane River National Heritage Foundation (2003)

Professional and Academic Honors

Del Amo Foundation Fellowship (for sabbatical research on the Spanish epic), 1962-1963.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (for sabbatical research on the Spanish epic), 1962-1963.
American Philosophical Society (for research on Hispanic ballads), 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships (to study the epic poem of Las mocedades de Rodrigo), 1967, 1971-1972.
Chicago Folklore Prize for 1973 (First Prize for the book, The Judeo-Spanish Ballad Chapbooks of Y. A. Yoná, Berkeley-Los Angeles, 1971, co-authored with J. H. Silverman).
Elected: Medieval Academy of America (Fellow), 1973.
American Academy of Jewish Research Publication Grant (for publication of Romances judeo-españoles de Tánger), 1977.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Publication Grant (for publication of Tres calas en el romancero sefardí), 1979.
NEH Summer Seminar for Teachers (title: "From Epic to Ballad in the Hispanic Tradition"), Summer 1979.
U.S. National Park Service Grant (to record and study the language, folklore and folk literature of Spanish-speaking communities in Louisiana), 1980-1981.
NEH Fellowships to edit Judeo-Spanish folk literature, 1981-1983, 1984-1986, 1988-1990, 1990-1992, 1992-1994, 1994-1996, 1997, 1998-2000, 2002-2004 (with J. H. Silverman and I. J. Katz).
Program of Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities Publication Grant (for publication of The Spanish Tradition in Lousiana, Vol. 1), 1989.
Lucius N. Littauer Foundation (in support of research for the multi-volume series: Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews), 1989, 1990, 1995, 1998.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa), Georgetown University, 1990.
President's Research Fellowship, University of California, 1990.
Elected: American Folklore Society (Fellow), 1991.
Board of Overseers of Harvard College: Visiting Committees, 1991-1997.
Homage volume: Hispanic Medieval Studies in Honor of Samuel G. Armistead, ed. E. Michael Gerli and Harvey L. Sharrer, Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1992.
National Jewish Book Award for 1994 in Folklore and Anthropology (for the book Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, Vol. III, Berkeley-Los Angeles, 1994, co-authored with J. H. Silverman and I. J. Katz).
Homage volume: Oral Tradition and Hispanic Literature: Essays in Honor of Samuel G. Armistead, ed. Mishael Caspi, New York and London: Garland, 1995.
Elected: Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval, Alcalá de Henares, Spain (Honorary Member, 1995).
Medal: Tel-Aviv University, Israel, in recognition of Sephardic Research, 1995.
Medal: Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, in recognition of Sephardic Research, 1997.
Elected: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (Corresponding Member, 1998).
Elected: U. C. Davis Faculty Research Lecturer (for 1998).
Elected: U. C. Davis Humanities Institute Fellow (for 1998-1999).
Elected: Premio Internacional «Elio Antonio de Nebrija», University of Salamanca (1999).
Program of Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities Publication Grant (for publication of Memorial volume for Joseph H. Silverman), 1999.
Digital Libraries Initiative Grant (DLI II) (in support of digitizing collection of Hispanic oral literature; with Bruce Rosenstock) (for 1999-2001).
Amado Foundation Grants (in support of digitizing collection of Sephardic oral literature; with Bruce Rosenstock) (for 1999 and 2000).
Distinguished Lecturer in Medieval Studies, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, March 23, 2000.
Folklore Studies: Homage to Samuel G. Armistead, 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 4-7, 2000: Sessions 244 and 301: 1:30-5:00 P.M. May 5, 2000.
Elected: Investigador Honorario, Instituto Menéndez Pidal, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, December 2000.
Designated: Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis, July 2003.