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Faculty and Staff Awards

Each year COLA recognizes outstanding faculty and staff: the best of the best. Congratulations to this year’s honorees!

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2022 Recipients

Steven Aldredge (2022)

Outstanding Non-Tenure Eligible (NTE) Faculty Service Award
Recognition Year: 
2022

Steven Aldredge is known across campus for going above and beyond to serve his students and the larger community.

Dorothy Alvarez (2022)

Outstanding Non-Tenure Eligible (NTE) Faculty Award
Recognition Year: 
2022

Dorothy Alvarez has played a vital, leading role in building and sustaining the Spanish program and made invaluable contributions to teaching, administration, and community outreach.

Carlos Costa (2022)

Outstanding Teaching Award
Recognition Year: 
2022

Carlos Costa has won over multiple cohorts of graduate students who previously had proclaimed their “math phobia” and was determined to steer clear of quantitative methods.

Erin Flanagan (2022)

Outstanding Research Award
Recognition Year: 
2022

Erin Flanagan is a tremendously accomplished, productive scholar with a significant body of work that has attracted international attention. 

Tracey Hill (2022)

Outstanding Staff
Recognition Year: 
2022

Tracey Hill, according to those who work with her, exemplifies the qualities Wright State desires in a staff member.

Pam Knauert Lavarnay (2022)

Outstanding Faculty Member Award
Recognition Year: 
2022

Pam Knauert Lavarnway has worked on more than 140 productions during her 32 years at Wright State. Her contributions have been sustained, varied, and exceptional.

Karine Ould-Daddah (2022)

Outstanding Non-Tenure Eligible (NTE) Faculty Teaching Award
Recognition Year: 
2022

An outstanding, innovative, and popular teacher of French, Karine Ould-Daddah has lived all over the world, earned an M.B.A., and become a small business owner.

Arliss Perry (2022)

Outstanding Adjunct Award
Recognition Year: 
2022

Arliss Perry taught physical geography at Wright State for more than 30 years.

Daniel Warshawsky (2022)

Outstanding Faculty Professional Service Award
Recognition Year: 
2022

As director of Wright State’s Master of Public Administration program, Daniel Warshawsky led the effort to redesign the program and reinvigorate it, merging it with the Master of Arts in Applied Behavioral Sciences.

2021 Recipients

Karen Lahm (2021)

COLA Outstanding Faculty Member Award
Recognition Year: 
2021

Crime and Justice Studies

Karen Lahm is director of the Crime and Justice Studies program, a productive scholar and highly involved teacher.

Amy Hubbard (2021)

COLA Outstanding Teaching Award
Recognition Year: 
2021

Sociology and Anthropology

Amy Hubbard is a popular and inventive teacher of physical anthropology who challenges her students to excel.

Drew Swanson (2021)

COLA Outstanding Research Award
Recognition Year: 
2021

History

The author of three monographs and dozens of shorter articles, chapters, and reviews, Drew Swanson is a respected authority on the history of the American South.

Noeleen McIlvenna (2021)

COLA Outstanding Professional Service Award
Recognition Year: 
2021

History

Noeleen McIlvenna is highly visible for her service to the campus community.

Sarah McGinley (2021)

COLA Outstanding Non-Tenure Eligible (NTE) Faculty Award
Recognition Year: 
2021

Jamie Cordes (2021)

COLA Outstanding Non-Tenure Eligible (NTE) Faculty: Teaching
Recognition Year: 
2021

Cynthia Marshall Burns (2021)

COLA Outstanding Non-Tenure Eligible (NTE) Faculty: Service
Recognition Year: 
2021

English Language and Literatures

Cynthia Marshall Burns’ service to the university, college and community is extensive and impactful. 

Sally Struthers (2021)

COLA Outstanding Adjunct Award
Recognition Year: 
2021

Art and Art History

Sally Struthers is a versatile and dedicated adjunct member of the faculty in the Department of Art and Art History.

Carly Kimmins (2021)

COLA Outstanding Staff Award
Recognition Year: 
2021

2020 Recipients

  • Liam Anderson: College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Faculty Member Award
  • Jessica Penwell Barnett: College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award
  • Jen Ware: College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Research Award
  • Susan Carrafiello: College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Professional Service Award
  • Josh McCabe: College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Early Career Achievement
  • Irena Joseph: College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Community Engagement
  • Aaron Wolpert: College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Lecturer Award
  • Erin Robbins: College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Adjunct Award
  • Becca Webb: College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Staff Award

2019 Recipients

Jennie Buckwalter

COLA Outstanding Community Engagement
Recognition Year: 
2019

Rebecca Edwards

COLA Outstanding Professional Service Award
Recognition Year: 
2019

Ashley Hall

COLA Outstanding Early Career Achievement
Recognition Year: 
2019

Karen Lahm

COLA Outstanding Teacher Award
Recognition Year: 
2019

Crystal Lake

COLA Outstanding Research Award
Recognition Year: 
2019

Laurel Monnig (2019)

College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Lecturer Award
Recognition Year: 
2019

Amy Neace

COLA Outstanding Staff Award
Recognition Year: 
2019

Thomas Sobieski

COLA Outstanding Adjunct Award
Recognition Year: 
2019

Kelli Zaytoun

COLA Outstanding Faculty Member Award
Recognition Year: 
2019

2018 Recipients

Laura Luehrmann

COLA Outstanding Faculty Member Award
Recognition Year: 
2018

Kirsten Halling

COLA Outstanding Teaching Award and Robert J. Kegerreis Distinguished Professor of Teaching Award
Recognition Year: 
2018

Marlese Durr

COLA Outstanding Research Award
Recognition Year: 
2018

Stuart McDowell

COLA Outstanding Professional Service Award and Frederick A. White Distinguished Professor of Professional Service Award
Recognition Year: 
2018

Lee Hannah

COLA Outstanding Early Career Achievement Award and Wright State Early Career Achievement Award
Recognition Year: 
2018

Thomas Fenton

COLA Outstanding Community Engagement Award and Wright State Community Engagement Award
Recognition Year: 
2018

Sarah McGinley

COLA Outstanding Lecturer Award
Recognition Year: 
2018

Tomoko Tsuzuki-Deboer

COLA Outstanding Adjunct Award
Recognition Year: 
2018

Susan Schultheis

COLA Outstanding Staff Award
Recognition Year: 
2018

2017 Recipients

Kathryn Meyer

Outstanding Faculty Member
Recognition Year: 
2017

Noeleen McIlvenna

Outstanding Teaching Award
Recognition Year: 
2017

Valerie Stoker

Outstanding Research Award and Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research Award
Recognition Year: 
2017

Jennifer Subban

Outstanding Professional Service Award and Frederick A. White Distinguished Professor of Professional Service Award
Recognition Year: 
2017

Lance Greene

Outstanding Early Career Achievement Award
Recognition Year: 
2017

Jeannette Horwitz

Outstanding Community Engagement Award
Recognition Year: 
2017

David Hapner

Outstanding Lecturer Award
Recognition Year: 
2017

Chris Wydham

Outstanding Adjunct Award
Recognition Year: 
2017

Marie Donohue

Outstanding Staff Award
Recognition Year: 
2017

 


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