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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
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
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
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
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
Sally Struthers is a versatile and dedicated adjunct member of the faculty in the Department of Art and Art History.
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
2018 Recipients
Kirsten Halling
COLA Outstanding Teaching Award and Robert J. Kegerreis Distinguished Professor of Teaching 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
2017 Recipients
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
