Faculty Awards
The Department of English, the College of Arts and Sciences and The Ohio State University regularly recognize exceptional faculty achievements in teaching, service and research or creative activity through formal awards. More than a quarter of our faculty have received at least one teaching award, and many have received Distinguished University Awards.
DEPARTMENT AWARDS: 2022-2023
ETHAN KNAPP | EUGO Professor of the Year Award
This award recognizes a professor who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way, and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization (EUGO) oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year’s awards as necessary to determine the current winner.
AUSTEN OSWORTH | EGO Professor of the Year Award
This award, organized by the English Graduate Organization, recognizes a professor in the Department of English who has demonstrated commitment to graduate student success through excellence in teaching and advising. All Department of English graduate students are invited to nominate and to vote.
AUSTEN OSWORTH | EUGO Associated Faculty of the Year Award
This award recognizes an Associated Faculty member who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way, and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization (EUGO) oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year’s awards as necessary to determine the current winner.
CAROLYN SKINNER | Marlene B. Longenecker Leadership and Teaching Award
This award, originally given by Department of English Alumni Advisory Board in 2008, honors Marlene Longenecker for the occasion of her retirement from the faculty. Each year it honors a faculty member selected for their combination of distinguished teaching and outstanding Department and University service and citizenship.
COLLEGE/CAMPUS & UNIVERSITY AWARDS: 2022-2023
DAVID ADAMS | Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Society of Faculty Fellows
The Society of Fellows fosters a multidisciplinary community of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students that support the synthesis and translation of knowledge across disciplines to engage critical societal challenges in the form of an annual theme. These fellowships provide faculty with release time (two-course reduction) to focus on a scholarly and/or creative project that advances the seminar theme.
ADÉLÉKÈ ADÉẸ̀KỌ́ | Distinguished Scholar Award
The Distinguished Scholar Award is among the highest annual honors The Ohio State University bestows on a faculty member in recognition of outstanding scholarly activity, research or creative works.
AMRITA DHAR | Virginia Hull Research Award
Virginia Hull Award fund supports diversity at the university, consistent with the university's mission, with particular attention to, but not limited to, female faculty members in the Humanities who are at the rank of assistant or associate professor.
SIMONE DRAKE | Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award
The Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Awards celebrates diversity efforts at Ohio State and rewards individuals and groups for their commitment to the university’s shared values, especially the values of diversity and innovation, and inclusion and equity.
RYAN FRIEDMAN | Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Society of Faculty Fellows
The Society of Fellows fosters a multidisciplinary community of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students that support the synthesis and translation of knowledge across disciplines to engage critical societal challenges in the form of an annual theme. These fellowships provide faculty with release time (two-course reduction) to focus on a scholarly and/or creative project that advances the seminar theme.
PRANAV JANI | Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Society of Faculty Fellows
The Society of Fellows fosters a multidisciplinary community of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students that support the synthesis and translation of knowledge across disciplines to engage critical societal challenges in the form of an annual theme. These fellowships provide faculty with release time (two-course reduction) to focus on a scholarly and/or creative project that advances the seminar theme.
ETHAN KNAPP | Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award
Excellence in Teaching Award supports a faculty member in the Department of English and faculty member in the Department of History for teaching excellence.
LESLIE LOCKETT | Honors Faculty Service Award
The Honors Faculty Service Award recognizes excellence in honors advising, honors instruction, honors committee work, and other honors initiatives and responsibilities which have enhanced the quality of education available to honors students in the liberal arts.
DAVID RUDERMAN | Robert A. Barnes Award for Exemplary Teaching
The Robert A. Barnes Award for Exemplary Teaching is awarded to an Ohio State Newark tenured faculty member who has established a record of excellent teaching at the Newark campus for at least 10 years. Candidates for the award are nominated annually by an anonymous ballot distributed to all full-time Ohio State Newark faculty.
ELISSA WASHUTA | Provost's Midcareer Scholars: Scarlet and Gray Associate Professor Program
The Provost's Midcareer Scholars: Scarlet and Gray Associate Professor Program honors and recognizes tenure-track faculty who have recently been appointed to the rank of associate professor with tenure and have demonstrated significant accomplishments in their discipline(s).
ELIZABETH WEISER | Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professorship
The Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professorship is an honorific title, not a new faculty rank. This award serves to honor full professor colleagues who have excelled in teaching, service, and research/creative activity, and whose work has demonstrated significant impact on their fields, students, college and university, and/or the public.
ANDREÁ WILLIAMS | Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award
This award is presented annually to a faculty member, regular staff member or student from within The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences who has demonstrated outstanding mentoring to and/or leadership on behalf of women or other historically underrepresented groups at the university.
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL AWARDS: 2022-2023
BEN MCCORKLE | Nancy Dasher Book Award
The Nancy Dasher Award, given by the College English Association of Ohio (CEAO), recognizes outstanding publications by faculty members from a CEAO-member department in one of three areas each year: professional and pedagogical issues, creative writing, and literary scholarship and criticism (including theory).
KATHY FAGAN GRANDINETTI | Guggenheim Fellowship
Each year, the Guggenheim Foundation awards approximately 175 fellowships to individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts.
DAVID RUDERMAN | Liverpool University Press Award for Outstanding Journal Reviewer
Rewarding excellence in the field of scholarly reviewing from learning journals at Liverpool University Press. Carefully selected by our journal editors, these individuals have provided an exceptional service to their disciplines by contributing timely, rigorous and thoughtful peer reviews to some of the leading publications in their fields in 2022.
LEE MARTIN | Coolest American Stories
The 13 stories in this anthology edited by Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey are brimming with characters who don’t quite fit into their own social milieu, leaving you to more or less root for them. In Lee Martin’s “Happy Birthday Honey Vanlandingham,” the socially awkward Shuman bumbles though his attempts to seek acceptance in his neighborhood’s “Patio Club” after his wife leaves him. He has depended on his spouse to tell him what to do and to right his wrongs for so long that even a task as simple as buying a birthday present for a mere acquaintance spirals into a thorny scandal. But Shuman isn’t trying to gain access to the Patio Club because he wants status; he just wants to be a part of something human.
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Department awards
CHRISTIANE BUUCK | The Department of English Teaching Award for First-Year Writing
The Department of English Teaching Award for First-Year Writing recognizes an instructor of English 1110 for extraordinary commitment to the learning experience of student writers. The award is determined by the staff of the First-Year Writing Program following review classroom assignments, statement of purpose, and student response through discursive evaluations.
CHRISTIANE BUUCK | English Undergraduate Organization Associated Faculty of the Year Award
This award recognizes an associated faculty in English who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
MOLLY J. FARRELL | English Undergraduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
This award recognizes an English professor who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
PRANAV JANI | English Graduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
Organized by the English Graduate Organization, this award recognizes a professor in the Department of English who has demonstrated commitment to graduate student success through excellence in teaching and advising. All graduate students in the department are invited to nominate and vote.
AMY SHUMAN | Marlene B. Longnecker Award for Teaching and Leadership
This award was endowed in 2008 by the English Advisory Board in honor of Marlene Longenecker, on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty. Each year, it honors a faculty member selected for their combination of distinguished teaching and outstanding department and university service and leadership.
College & university awards
SCOTT L. DEWITT | Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award in Arts and Humanities
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers. Candidates are chosen for creative teaching and exemplary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students. It is bestowed by the College of Arts and Sciences.
AMRITA DHAR | Buckeye Access All-Star
The Buckeye Access All-Star Award recognizes members of the university community who make a difference in students' experiences at Ohio State by promoting access for those with disabilities.
JARED GARDNER | President & Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty Service
The President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service annually recognizes up to three tenure-track, clinical, or research faculty members who have been at Ohio State for at least five years.
WENDY S. HESFORD | President & Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty Service
The President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service annually recognizes up to three tenure-track, clinical, or research faculty members who have been at Ohio State for at least five years.
ELIZABETH HEWITT | Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award in Arts and Humanities
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers. Candidates are chosen for creative teaching and exemplary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students. Bestowed by the College of Arts and Sciences.
ROB HUGHES | Paul W. Brown Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Departments of English & History
The Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award in English and History recognizes a faculty member in the Department of English and a faculty member in the Department of History for teaching excellence.
PRANAV JANI | ASC Diversity Enhancement Award
The Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments by faculty whose research, teaching and service promote diversity and support a culture that exhibits inclusive excellence, community and openness.
JOHN JONES | Buckeye Access All-Star
The Buckeye Access All-Star Award recognizes members of the university community who make a difference in students' experiences at Ohio State by promoting access for those with disabilities.
LESLIE LOCKETT | Buckeye Access All-Star
The Buckeye Access All-Star Award recognizes members of the university community who make a difference in students' experiences at Ohio State by promoting access for those with disabilities.
JAKE RISINGER | Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching recognizes a maximum of ten faculty members for their excellence in teaching. Students, faculty and alumni may nominate faculty. A committee of students, previous recipients and alumni choose the recipients.
AMY SHUMAN | Buckeye Access All-Star
The Buckeye Access All-Star Award recognizes members of the university community who make a difference in students' experiences at Ohio State by promoting access for those with disabilities.
ELISSA WASHUTA | ASC Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award
The ASC Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes outstanding performance in all three areas of research, teaching and service of early and mid-career faculty at the time of promotion.
ELISSA WASHUTA | Early-Career Distinguished Scholar Award
The Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award honors three assistant professors and early associate professors who show promise of making significant contributions to Ohio State and their field for years to come.
KAREN WINSTEAD | Buckeye Access All-Star
The Buckeye Access All-Star Award recognizes members of the university community who make a difference in students' experiences at Ohio State by promoting access for those with disabilities.
KAREN WINSTEAD | Honors Faculty Service Award
This award recognizes excellence in honors advising, honors instruction, honors committee work, and other honors initiatives and responsibilities which have enhanced the quality of education available to honors students in the liberal arts.
National & international awards
CHRIS CASTILLO | Coalition for Community Writing-Emerging Scholars Award
The Coalition for Community Writing (CCW) Emerging Scholars Award was created in collaboration with the American Indian Caucus, the Asian/Asian American Caucus, the Black Caucus, the Latinx Caucus and DBLAC for BIPOC graduate students and faculty.
SCOTT L. DEWITT | Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field
The Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field honors scholarship and professional service to the field of computers and writing. The award is named in honor of Charles Moran, a former member of Computers and Composition’s editorial board.
AMRITA DHAR | National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
The National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship supports humanities scholars and their projects, innovative digital public initiatives and infrastructure programs at cultural institutions.
KATHY FAGAN GRANDINETTI | Pushcart Prize 2022
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, is an annual collection that publishes short stories, poetry and essays.
RICHARD FIRTH GREEN | Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
The Fellowship of the Medieval Academy of America is granted to those that have made lifelong contributions to medieval studies through their scholarship, teaching and service.
BEVERLY MOSS | Coalition for Community Writing-Distinguished Engaged Scholar in Community Award
The Distinguished Engaged Scholar in Community Writing Award is presented to an individual who has made a significant contribution to community writing, which includes scholarship areas such as service-learning, community-based research, community literacy, ethnography, community publishing, advocacy and activist writing.
DOROTHY NOYES | Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Achievement
The Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Achievement is presented by the American Folklore Society to scholars who have contributed exceptionally through academic leadership to the field of folklore.
ANGIE ROMINES | Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Nonfiction
The Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Non-Fiction gives artists the resources to experiment and explore their art forms, develop skills and advance their careers.
DOUG SUTTON-RAMSPECK | Tenth-Gate Prize
The Tenth Gate Prize honors mid-career poets writing in English. A prize of $1000 and publication of the full-length collection is awarded.
ROBYN WARHOL | Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award
The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award is given by the International Society for the Study of Narrative and celebrates outstanding scholar-teachers who have made sustained contributions to narrative studies over the course of their careers.
ELISSA WASHUTA | 2022 PEN Open Book Award Finalist
The PEN Open Book Award invites book submissions by authors of color, published in the United States. The Open Book Award was created by PEN America’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities.
Department awards
JILL GALVAN | English Undergraduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
This award recognizes an English professor who has demonstrated remarkable commitment tot students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
LAUREN COOK | English Undergraduate Organization Associated Faculty of the Year Award
This award recognizes an associated faculty in English who has demonstrated remarkable commitment tot students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
KAREN WINSTEAD | English Graduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
Organized by the English Graduate Organization, this award recognizes a professor in the Department of English who has demonstrated commitment to graduate student success through excellence in teaching and advising. All graduate students in the department are invited to nominate and vote.
CHRISTIANE BUUCK | Kitty O. Locker Undergraduate Professional Writing Contest—Instructor
The Department of English Teaching Award for First-Year Writing recognizes the instructor of English 1110 for extraordinary commitment to the learning experience of student writers. The award is determined by the staff of the First-Year Writing Program following review classroom assignments, statement of purpose, and student response through discursive evaluations
JONATHAN BUEHL | Marlene Longnecker Award for Teaching and Leadership
This award was endowed in 2008 by the English Advisory Board in honor of Marlene Longenecker, on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty. Each year, it honors a faculty member selected for their combination of distinguished teaching and outstanding department and university service and leadership.
College & university awards
WENDY HESFORD | Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program Fellow
Established in 1989, the Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program (ALP) is an intensive experience that develops the leadership and managerial skills of faculty who have demonstrated exceptional ability and academic promise.
DOROTHY NOYES | College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professorship
This award serves to honor full professor colleagues who have excelled in teaching, service and research/creative activity, and whose work has demonstrated significant impact on their fields, students, college and university and/or the public.
SIMONE DRAKE | Community Engaged Scholar Award
The Community Engaged Scholar Award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated engaged scholarship that has impacted communities. Community Engaged Scholars have made significant contribution to Ohio State's culture of engagement, further establishing and strengthening the institution's commitment to supporting communities.
DOROTHY NOYES | Distinguished Scholar Award
Senior professors are honored for their exceptional scholarly accomplishments and younger faculty members for their demonstrated scholarly potential. Bestowed by the Ohio State Office of Research.
RYAN FRIEDMAN | Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award
The Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of any faculty member or team of faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences whose research, teaching, service and/or outreach activities promote diversity and support a culture that embraces and exhibits inclusive excellence, community and openness.
ELIZABETH WEISER | Ohio State Newark Scholarly Accomplishment Award
The Ohio State Newark Scholarly Accomplishment Award recognizes two leading scholars from among the Ohio State Newark regular faculty, one tenured and one tenure-track.
DANIEL KELLER | Ohio State Newark Teaching Excellence Award
The Teaching Excellence Award is presented annually to each of the following: (i) one full-time lecturer/visiting assistant professor, (ii) one tenure-track faculty member, and (iii) one tenured faculty member “to recognize individuals doing excellent teaching and to stimulate excellence in teaching.” Recipients are selected by a committee of previous winners, faculty appointed to the Professional Standards Committee, and if possible, students appointed by the Student Senate Committee. Ohio State Newark students, faculty, administrators and alumni may make nominations.
SARAH NEVILLE (2020) and NICK WHITE (2021) | Paul W. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching in English and History
The Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award in English and History recognizes a faculty member in the Department of English and a faculty member in the Department of History for teaching excellence.
ANGUS FLETCHER | Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring
The Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring supports a member of the Humanities faculty who best exemplifies excellence as a teacher of undergraduates. While the emphasis is on outstanding performance in the classroom, the selection committee also considers the nominee's performance as a mentor or advisor and use of innovative teaching strategies for the advancement of learning.
DAVID BREWER | Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award in Arts and Humanities
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers. Candidates are chosen for creative teaching and exemplary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students.
ELIZABETH HEWITT | College of Arts and Sciences Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award
Early and Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Awards recognize outstanding performance in all three areas of research, teaching and service of early and mid-career faculty at the time of promotion.
National & international awards
JIAN NEO CHEN | Association for Asian American Studies Social Sciences Book Award
BEVERLY MOSS | Conference of College Composition and Communication Exemplar Award
The CCCC Executive Committee presents, as occasion demands, the CCCC Exemplar Award to a person whose years of service as an exemplar for the organization represents the highest ideals of scholarship, teaching and service to the entire profession.
JAMES PHELAN | International Society for the Study of Narrative Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award
This award recognizes outstanding scholar-teachers who have made sustained contributions to narrative studies over the course of their careers.
FREDERICK ALDAMA | International Latino Book Awards Best Nonfiction Multi-Author Book
AMRITA DHAR | National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
Department awards
AMANPAL GARCHA | Marlene Longnecker Award for Teaching and Leadership
This award was endowed in 2008 by the English Advisory Board in honor of Marlene Longenecker, on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty. Each year, it honors a faculty member selected for their combination of distinguished teaching and outstanding department and university service and leadership.
ELIZABETH HEWITT | English Undergraduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
This award recognizes an English professor who has demonstrated remarkable commitment tot students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
JENNIFER PATTON | English Undergraduate Organization Associated Faculty of the Year Award
This award recognizes an associated faculty in English who has demonstrated remarkable commitment tot students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
DAN SEWARD | Department of English Teaching Award for First Year Writing
The Department of English Teaching Award for First-Year Writing recognizes the instructor of English 1110 for extraordinary commitment to the learning experience of student writers. The award is determined by the staff of the First-Year Writing Program following review classroom assignments, statement of purpose, and student response through discursive evaluations.
KAREN WINSTEAD | English Graduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
Organized by the English Graduate Organization, this award recognizes a professor in the Department of English who has demonstrated commitment to graduate student success through excellence in teaching and advising. All graduate students in the department are invited to nominate and vote.
College & university awards
FREDERICK ALDAMA | Distinguished University Professor Award
This honor highlights one to three full professors who have truly exceptional records in teaching, research, scholarly or creative work and service. It is the highest faculty honor at The Ohio State University.
CHRISTA TESTON | Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award in Arts and Humanities
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers. Candidates are chosen for creative teaching and exemplary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students.
Department awards
ALAN FARMER | Marlene Longenecker Award for Teaching and Leadership
This award was endowed in 2008 by the English Advisory Board in honor of Marlene Longenecker, on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty. Each year, it honors a faculty member selected for their combination of distinguished teaching and outstanding department and university service and leadership.
MARGARET PRICE | English Graduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
Organized by the English Graduate Organization, this award recognizes a professor in the Department of English who has demonstrated commitment to graduate student success through excellence in teaching and advising. All graduate students in the department are invited to nominate and vote.
CLARISSA SUREK-CLARK | English Undergraduate Organization Associated Faculty of the Year Award
This award recognizes an associated faculty in English who has demonstrated remarkable commitment tot students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
KAREN WINSTEAD | English Undergraduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
This award recognizes an English professor who has demonstrated remarkable commitment tot students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
College & university awards
FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA | Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring
This award recognizes a member of the humanities faculty who best exemplifies excellence as a teacher of undergraduates. The nominee's performance as a mentor or advisor and use of innovative teaching strategies for the advancement of learning is also considered.
FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA | Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership
This award is given to a faculty member, staff member or student who has demonstrated outstanding mentoring to and/or leadership on behalf of women or other historically-underrepresented groups at the university.
SARA CROSBY | Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award in Arts and Humanities
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers. Candidates are chosen for creative teaching and exemplary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students.
Department awards
KORITHA MITCHELL | English Undergraduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
This award recognizes an English professor who has demonstrated remarkable commitment tot students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
BEVERLY MOSS | English Graduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
Organized by the English Graduate Organization, this award recognizes a professor in the Department of English who has demonstrated commitment to graduate student success through excellence in teaching and advising. All graduate students in the department are invited to nominate and vote.
MARTIN JOE PONCE | The Marlene Longenecker Award for Teaching and Leadership
Annual award for one English department faculty member who embodies generosity and citizenship in the Department of English and is selected by the chair of the English department.
College & university awards
MEGHAN HATTAWAY | Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer
Recognizes a maximum of six lecturers, senior lecturers, or other associated faculty members for their teaching excellence.
LAUREN SQUIRES | Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award in Arts and Humanities
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers. Candidates are chosen for creative teaching and exemplary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students
CHRISTA TESTON | Paul W. Brown Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Departments of English and History / Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award
This award recognizes a faculty member in the Department of English and a faculty member in the Department of History for teaching excellence.
BEVERLY MOSS | Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching annually recognizes a maximum of ten faculty members for their teaching excellence.
VALERIE LEE | Distinguished Service Award
The Distinguished Service Award was established by the Board of Trustees in 1952 to recognize individuals who have rendered exceptional service to the university. Awards are not made on the basis of long, faithful or loyal service alone, but rather for service that is truly distinguished. Recipients of this award have provided a broad spectrum of services to the university in both official and unofficial capacities.
Department awards
DREW JONES | Marlene Longnecker Award for Teaching and Leadership
This award was endowed in 2008 by the English Advisory Board in honor of Marlene Longenecker, on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty. Each year, it honors a faculty member selected for their combination of distinguished teaching and outstanding department and university service and leadership.
JAKE RISINGER | English Undergraduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
This award recognizes an English professor who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
LINA FERREIRA | English Undergraduate Organization Associated Faculty of the Year Award
This award recognizes an associated faculty in English who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
MARTIN JOE PONCE | English Graduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
Organized by the English Graduate Organization, this award recognizes a professor in the Department of English who has demonstrated commitment to graduate student success through excellence in teaching and advising. All graduate students in the department are invited to nominate and vote.
College & university awards
ELIZABETH KOLKOVICH | Paul W. Brown Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Departments of English and History / Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award
This award recognizes a faculty member in the Department of English and a faculty member in the Department of History for teaching excellence.
TOMMY DAVIS | Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award in Arts and Humanities
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers. Candidates are chosen for creative teaching and exemplary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students.
SARA CROSBY | Teaching Excellence Award — Marion campus
For excellence in teaching, chosen by faculty.
FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA | Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching annually recognizes a maximum of ten faculty members for their teaching excellence.
Department awards
PRANAV JANI | The Marlene Longnecker Award for Teaching and Leadership
This award was endowed in 2008 by the English Advisory Board in honor of Marlene Longenecker, on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty. Each year, it honors a faculty member selected for their combination of distinguished teaching and outstanding department and university service and leadership.
MEMORY RISINGER | English Undergraduate Organization Associated Faculty of the Year Award
This award recognizes an associated faculty in English who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
KAREN WINSTEAD | English Undergraduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
This award recognizes an English professor who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
College & university awards
BRIAN McHALE | Distinguished Scholar Award
Senior professors are honored for their exceptional scholarly accomplishments and younger faculty members for their demonstrated scholarly potential.
ANDREÁ N. WILLIAMS | Arts & Humanities Diversity Enhancement Award
ANDREÁ N. WILLIAMS | Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award
The Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award annually recognizes up to five recipients for exceptional diversity efforts.
WENDY HESFORD | Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award in Arts and Humanities
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers. Candidates are chosen for creative teaching and exemplary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students.
AMY SHUMAN | Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching annually recognizes a maximum of ten faculty members for their teaching excellence.
ELIZABETH KOLKOVICH | Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching annually recognizes a maximum of ten faculty members for their teaching excellence.
Department awards
ALAN FARMER | English Undergraduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
This award recognizes an English professor who has demonstrated remarkable commitment tot students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
ERIN McGRAW | English Graduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
Organized by the English Graduate Organization, this award recognizes a professor in the Department of English who has demonstrated commitment to graduate student success through excellence in teaching and advising. All graduate students in the department are invited to nominate and vote.
JENNY PATTON | English Undergraduate Organization Associated Faculty of the Year Award
This award recognizes an associated faculty in English who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
ANDREÀ WILLIAMS | The Marlene Longnecker Award for Teaching and Leadership
This award was endowed in 2008 by the English Advisory Board in honor of Marlene Longenecker, on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty. Each year, it honors a faculty member selected for their combination of distinguished teaching and outstanding department and university service and leadership.
College & university awards
WENDY HESFORD | College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award
Description Each year the College of Arts & Sciences gives four Outstanding Teaching Awards, one each in the divisions of Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural & Mathematical Sciences and one for lecturers. These Awards recognize excellence and outstanding contribution both in undergraduate and graduate teaching and in all aspects of teaching, not just class performance.
JENNY PATTON | Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer
Recognizes a maximum of six lecturers, senior lecturers, or other associated faculty members for their teaching excellence.
AMY SHUMAN | Distinguished Scholar Award
Senior professors are honored for their exceptional scholarly accomplishments and younger faculty members for their demonstrated scholarly potential.
EDDIE SINGLETON | Outstanding First-Year Advocate Award
This award recognizes contributions of exceptional faculty and staff to first-year student success, and honors those who have demonstrated a passion beyond their typical job responsibilities for helping students make the most of their first year, fostering personal connections with or among first-year students, implementing policies that helped make first-year student success possible, and serving as a resource to new students.
CHRISTIAN ZACHER | Distinguished Service Award
The Distinguished Service Award was established by the Board of Trustees in 1952 to recognize individuals who have rendered exceptional service to the university. Awards are not made on the basis of long, faithful or loyal service alone, but rather for service that is truly distinguished. Recipients of this award have provided a broad spectrum of services to the university in both official and unofficial capacities.
NAN JOHNSON | Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring
This award recognizes a member of the humanities faculty who best exemplifies excellence as a teacher of undergraduates. The nominee's performance as a mentor or advisor and use of innovative teaching strategies for the advancement of learning is also considered.
BEVERLY MOSS | Paul W. Brown Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Departments of English and History / Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award
This award recognizes a faculty member in the Department of English and a faculty member in the Department of History for teaching excellence.
ELIZABETH RENKER | Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award in Arts and Humanities
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers. Candidates are chosen for creative teaching and exemplary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students.
CHRISTOPHER HIGHLEY | Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching annually recognizes a maximum of ten faculty members for their teaching excellence.
Department awards
AMANPAL GARCHA | English Graduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
Organized by the English Graduate Organization, this award recognizes a professor in the Department of English who has demonstrated commitment to graduate student success through excellence in teaching and advising. All graduate students in the department are invited to nominate and vote.
ELIZABETH HEWITT | English Undergraduate Organization Associated Faculty of the Year Award
This award recognizes an associated faculty in English who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
LISA KISER | The Marlene Longnecker Award for Teaching and Leadership
This award was endowed in 2008 by the English Advisory Board in honor of Marlene Longenecker, on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty. Each year, it honors a faculty member selected for their combination of distinguished teaching and outstanding department and university service and leadership.
JOHN MOE | English Undergraduate Organization Associated Faculty of the Year Award
This award recognizes an associated faculty in English who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
College & university awards
FREDERICK ALDAMA | Distinguished Scholar Award
Senior professors are honored for their exceptional scholarly accomplishments and younger faculty members for their demonstrated scholarly potential.
LYNN ITAGAKI | Arts & Humanities Diversity Enhancement Award
AMY SHUMAN | Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award
The Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award celebrates and rewards members of the Ohio State community who are shaping the university with cutting-edge curriculum, mentorship, new programs or policy impact that are making diversity and inclusiveness a part of its best practices by changing daily operations, program components or cultural awareness.
BEN McCORKLE | Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching annually recognizes a maximum of ten faculty members for their teaching excellence.
Department awards
MURRAY BEJA | English Undergraduate Organization Associated Faculty of the Year Award
This award recognizes an associated faculty in English who has demonstrated remarkable commitment to students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
LUKE WILSON | The Marlene Longnecker Award for Teaching and Leadership
This award was endowed in 2008 by the English Advisory Board in honor of Marlene Longenecker, on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty. Each year, it honors a faculty member selected for their combination of distinguished teaching and outstanding department and university service and leadership.
CHRISTOPHER HIGHLEY | English Undergraduate Organization Professor of the Year Award
This award recognizes an English professor who has demonstrated remarkable commitment tot students, taught a course in a truly unique way and/or provided students with an exceptional learning experience. The English Undergraduate Organization oversees the selection process for these awards, inviting all English majors to participate in an online voting process and collaborating with the winners of the previous year's awards as necessary to determine the current winners.
College & university awards
CHRISTOPHER HIGHLEY | Paul W. Brown Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Departments of English and History / Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award
This award recognizes a faculty member in the Department of English and a faculty member in the Department of History for teaching excellence.
MARTIN JOE PONCE | Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award
The Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award celebrates and rewards members of the Ohio State community who are shaping the university with cutting-edge curriculum, mentorship, new programs or policy impact that are making diversity and inclusiveness a part of its best practices by changing daily operations, program components or cultural awareness.
ERIN McGRAW | Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching annually recognizes a maximum of ten faculty members for their teaching excellence.
KAY HALASEK | Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching annually recognizes a maximum of ten faculty members for their teaching excellence.