The Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this week honored three junior faculty members for scholarly achievements in their respective fields.
Alessandro Giammei, an assistant professor of Italian Studies, received the Samuel '60 and Ronnie '72 Heyman Prize, which recognizes outstanding scholarship in the humanities. Cormac O'Dea, an assistant professor of economics, and Chiara Mingarelli, an assistant professor of physics, each received the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize, which honors work in the social or natural sciences.
Below is a description of each winner's accomplishments, as shared by FAS Dean Steven Wilkinson in a message to the community.
Samuel '60 and Ronnie '72 Heyman Prize
The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize recognizes outstanding scholarly publications or research by a ladder faculty member in the humanities who is untenured at the time that the work is completed or published.
Alessandro Giammei, Department of Italian Studies
"Alessandro Giammei, a scholar of Italian literature and culture, was awarded the Heyman Prize in recognition of his new book, 'Ariosto in the Machine Age.' In this book, he deftly traces the genealogy of Italian modernism, moving agilely across periods and genres to offer a model for the field of reception studies."
Arthur Greer Memorial Prizes
The Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research recognizes outstanding research conducted by ladder faculty members in the social or natural sciences, broadly construed, who are untenured at the time that the work is completed or published.
Cormac O'Dea, Department of Economics
"Cormac O'Dea was awarded the Greer Prize in recognition of his work on public economics and household finance. Cormac's research uses administrative records, novel datasets, and economic modeling to study how retirement systems, household saving and labor-supply decisions, and intergenerational persistence in earnings shape economic outcomes over the lifecycle. In 2025, Cormac and his co-authors won the 2025 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security."
Chiara Mingarelli, Department of Physics
"Chiara Mingarelli was awarded the Greer prize in recognition of her instrumental work launching a new area of research in gravitational waves. In 2025, she was awarded, as part of the NanoGrav Collaboration, the Bruno Rossi Prize from the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division for the discovery of the gravitational wave background."
