ASU faculty member awarded NEH grant for Día de los Muertos book        

Arizona State University News

Mathew Sandoval, associate teaching professor and Dean’s Fellow for Access and Inclusive Excellence in Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University, has received the Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

In addition to being one of NEH’s most competitive grants, the Public Scholar award is part of a White House initiative to promote cross-cultural understanding. 

“I feel blessed. This is the most prestigious honor I’ve received in my professional career,” Sandoval said. 

Sandoval will use the $60,000 grant to take a sabbatical from teaching at Barrett to finish his book, "A Cultural History of Day of the Dead: How Día de los Muertos Became Mexican." 

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