Honors/Awards/Distinctions
My book Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future (2023) was selected as one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2023.
Black Men from Behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations was selected as a "Top 75 Community College Title" by Choice, under Social & Behavioral Sciences, November 2022.
In 2022 (spring), Visiting Scholar at Allegheny College (sponsored by the Bywater Fund for Social Justice Programming).
Received a non-traditional academic honor from the anonymous artist "Belove" who painted a portrait mural of me in Denver, Colorado, "I Am George Yancy." Shared by photographer Peter Kowalchuk.
Awarded a Senior Fellowship by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, 2021-2022.
In 2021, I was honored by the publication of George Yancy: A Critical Introduction. Edited by Kimberley Ducey, Clevis Headley, and Joe R. Feagin, with a Foreword by Judith Butler (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). The book consists of multiple essays by various scholars engaging my philosophical corpus.
Visiting Scholar at Cornell University's School of Criticism and Theory (June-July 2021).
In 2021, cited at Academic Influence as one of the top 10 influential philosophers in the last 10 years, 2010-2020, based upon the number of citations and web presence.
2019-20 University of Pennsylvania's Inaugural Provost's Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow.
2019 (to the present) Endowed Chair Appointment as the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.
In the summer of 2019 (from July 8-12), served as a distinguished Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. Since its founding in 1978, the Montgomery Fellows Program has brought to campus more than 250 distinguished novelists and poets, journalists and artists, musicians and performers, actors and directors, scholars and scientists, as well as public intellectuals and social activists, politicians, diplomats and heads of state.
In 2017, Our Black Sons Matter was listed by Booklist as a Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction book.
In 2016, "Dear White America" in The Stone (The New York Times) won the American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy's Op-Ed Contest.
In 2014, Diversity Scholar in Residence at Alleghany College (fall semester).
In 2014, "Walking While Black in the White Gaze" in The Stone (The New York Times) won the American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy's Op-Ed Contest.
In 2013, Yancy became Founding Editor of Philosophy of Race Book Series at Lexington Books.
2012 NEH Award through the McAnulty College Graduate School of Liberal Arts
2012 Nominated for the Duquesne University Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship
2012 Duquesne University McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Award for Excellence in Scholarship.
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award
2008 Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
2008 Nominated for the Duquesne University Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship
2008 Duquesne University McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship.
2007-2013, Creator and Coordinator of the Critical Race Theory Speaker Series at Duquesne University.
2006 Wimmer Family Foundation Grant to complete authored book, Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race, Duquesne University
2006 First junior faculty member at Duquesne University to receive Honorable Mention for College Excellence in Faculty Scholarship, Duquesne University
2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award
2004 Duquesne University Dissertation Writing Fellowship
2003 Distinguished Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, New York University
2000 Award for Excellence in Scholarship by a Graduate Student, Duquesne University
1999 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award
1999-2003 First graduate student to receive the distinguished McAnulty Fellowship in
the Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University
1987-1990 Yale University Fellowship