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Professor of English Wins Faculty Award for Distinguished University Service
Dr. Susan Williams can add another award to her long list of accolades: the Faculty Award for Distinguished University Service. The award, which honors faculty who have influenced the quality of the university through non-administrative roles, comes with a cash award of $3,000, and a base salary increase of $1,200.
The wall behind her desk already contains plaques for the Graduate Teacher of the Year Award and the Alumni Teaching Award. Williams’ long list of university service activities includes serving as Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department, serving on several committees for the Office of Academic Affairs that worked on budget restructuring, and serving as chair for the Graduate Associate and Fellowship Committee of the Research and Graduate Council, which worked to provide more extensive healthcare, including paid leave, for GTAs.
"It’s a matter of putting yourself in a variety of places to advance the University," Williams said. Her service to the Department, the College of Humanities , and the University as a whole spans over fifteen years.
Williams, Professor of American Literature and Culture before 1900, is the author of Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction and Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850-1900. She has received grants from the American Antiquarian Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Fund. Williams received her Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 1991 and joined Ohio State in the same year.
