2008 HSS Faculty and Staff Awards Results
On Thursday, April 10, at 12:30 in the Social Sciences Auditorium, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences held its annual Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony.
The ceremony ended with recognition of two retirees:
- Dr. Barbara J. Stevenson, Professor of English
- Ms. Gerd Eriksson, Administrative Associate, Department of Political Science and International Affairs
The nominees for and the recipients of the various awards are listed below.
Distinguished Service Award
Winner:
- Mr. Leonard Witt, Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair of Communication and Assistant Professor of Communication
Finalists:
- Dr. Carol Harrell, Associate Professor of English and English Education
- Dr. David Jones, Professor of Philosophy
Distinguished Scholarship Award
Winner:
- Dr. Catherine Lewis, Associate Professor of History; Director, Holocaust Education Program; Coordinator, Public History Program
Finalists:
- Dr. Beth Daniell, Director of Composition and Associate Professor of English
- Dr. May Gao, Assistant Professor of Communication
- Dr. Jeffrey Helms, Associate Professor of Psychology
Distinguished Teaching Award
HSS Winner / Finalist for the University Award:
- Dr. Aaron Levy, Assistant Professor of English
HSS Finalists:
- Dr. Thomas Doleys, Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Dr. Daniel Niederjohn, Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Ms. Jan Phillips, Instructor of Communication
- Mr. Thomas Pynn, Instructor of Philosophy
KSU Foundation Prize
HSS Finalists/Nominees for the University Award:
- Dr. Catherine Lewis, Associate Professor of History; Director, Holocaust Education Program; Coordinator, Public History Program
- "Don't Ask What I Shot": How Eisenhower's Love of Golf Helped Shape 1950's America. New York: McGraw Hill, 2007
- Dr. Sarah Robbins, Faculty Executive Assistant to the President and Professor of English
- The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
- Dr. Kerwin Swint, Associate Professor of Political Science
- Mudslingers. The Top 25 Negative Political Campaigns of all Time. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2006
HSS Nominiees:
- Dr. Keith Botelho, Assistant Professor of English
- "'Look on this picture, and on this': Framing Shakespeare in William Brown's The Escape," Comparative Drama, 39, 2, Summer 2005
- Dr. Martha Bowden, Professor of English
- Yorick’s Congregation. The Church of England in the Time of Laurence Sterne, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007
- Dr. John D. Fowler, Associate Professor of History
- The Confederate Experience Reader. Selected Documents and Essays. New York: Routledge, 2007
- Dr. Dawn Kirby, Professor of English
- New Directions in Teaching Memoir. A Studio Workshop Approach. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2007
- Dr. Maureen McCarthy, Professor of Psychology
- "Quality Benchmarks in Undergraduate Psychology Programs," American Psychologist, 62, 7, October, 2007
- Dr. Robert Simon, Assistant Professor of Spanish
- New Poems from the Airplane and Graveyard. Poems by Robert Simon. Georgetown, Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, 2007
- Dr. Jiayan Zhang, Assistant Professor of History
- Water Calamities and Dike Management in the Jianghan Plain in the Qing and the Republic. Late Imperial China, 27, 1, June, 2006
Distinguished Staff Member Award
Winner:
- Ms. Nancy Hill, Administrative Secretary, Department of History and Philosophy
Finalists:
- Ms. Candace Doughty, Business Affairs Manager, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Ms. Marsha Powell, Administrative Associate, Department of Foreign Languages
- Ms. Melissa Sullivan, Administrative Associate, Department of Geography and Anthropology
Faculty Awards Committee
- Dr. Audrey Allison, Assistant Professor of Communication
- Dr. Sutham Cheurprakobkit, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
- Dr. Elizabeth Gordon (Chair), Associate Professor of Public Law
- Ms. Letizia Guglielmo, Assistant Professor of English
- Dr. Randy Patton, Professor of History
- Dr. Terry Powis, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Dr. Federica Santini, Assistant Professor of Italian
- Dr. Lauren Taglialatela, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Staff Awards Committee
- Mr. Brett Fielder, Webmaster, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Dr. Hugh Hunt (Chair), Assistant Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Ms. Angela Stover, Dean’s Secretary, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Dr. Lana Wachniak, Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Posted: April 16, 2008
