Awards

Ramon Rivera-Servera presents Alexander Craft with the 2017 ASTR Errol Hill Award for When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama. The award is given in recognition of outstanding scholarship in African American theatre, drama, and/or performance studies.

Bowman & Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor,2025-30

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2022
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Errol Hill Award, 2017
American Society for Theatre Research

Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship, 2016
Whiting Foundation

Digital Innovations Lab/Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, 2013
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Junior Faculty Development Award, 2009
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fulbright Fellowship, 2002-2003
Panama

Order of the Golden Fleece, 1995
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s oldest and highest honor society