Winter 2006
Awards & Accolades
Faculty
Photo by Diana Watters
Mary Jo (M.J.) Maynes (history) received the Mullen, Spector, Truax Women’s Leadership Award. Madelon Sprengnether (English) received the Distinguished Women Scholars Award in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts.
Steven Manson (geography) received the national Young Scholar Award from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science.
Laurel Hirt (Career and Community Learning Center) received the Sister Pat Kowalski Leadership Award from the Minnesota Campus Compact for her leadership in advancing service learning and civic engagement.
Fernando Arenas (Spanish and Portuguese studies) received the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award for 2005–06.
Michelle Mason (philosophy), Stuart McLean (anthropology), and Bryan Shuman (geography) were named McKnight Land-Grant Professors.
Paula Rabinowitz (English) was named the new Russell Chair in Humanities. Rabinowitz is the current guiding genius behind Voices From the Gaps, which features
scholarship and creative work by, for, and about women writers and artists of color:
voices.cla.umn.edu/VG/index.html
Photo by Tom Foley
Gary Thomas (cultural studies and comparative literature) received the John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.
John Campbell (psychology) received the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology, the highest honor in applied psychology.
Edward Schiappa (communication studies) received the U’s 2005 Best Director of Graduates Studies Award.
Robert Krueger (psychology) received the 2005 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for early career contributions to psychology in the area of individual differences.
Ananya Chatterjea (theatre arts and dance) won the Sage People's Choice Award for her choreography.
Douglas Hawkins (statistics) received the William G. Hunter Award for his contributions to statistical education and integration of statistics with other disciplines. He also received the Shewhart Medal from the American Society of Quality. (www.douglashawkins.com/index.html)
Robin Stryker (sociology) received the 2005 Distinguished Article Prize from the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association.
Michael Goldman (sociology) was named a McKnight Presidential Fellow.
Jane Kirtley (Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law) was named one of Ten Minnesotans Who Are Changing Our Lives in Minnesota Monthly magazine, in recognition of her "unflinching" support of the First Amendment.
Valerie Miner (English) was awarded a McKnight Artist Fellowship. Abundant Light, a collection of short stories, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.
Kathleen Hansen (journalism and mass communication) received the David Rhydwen Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contributions to News Librarianship from the Special Libraries Association.
Dona Schwartz (journalism and mass communication) was a finalist for the prestigious Santa Fe Prize for Photography. Jurors called her project, "In the Kitchen," "brilliantly observed."
Alex Lubet's and Peter Mercer-Taylor's (music) Rock I and II classes received the 2005 Minnesota Daily Grapevine Award for Best Class at the University.
Beverly Atkinson (English) received the U's 2005 President's Award for Outstanding Service for her exemplary service to students. A scholarship has been established in Atkinson's honor.
Judith Martin (geography) was awarded the College of Continuing Education Distinguished Teaching Award.
Michael Dennis Browne (English) was appointed to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in the Humanities for 2005–06. The chair is awarded to a distinguished scholar and teacher whose scholarship and creative activity have made significant contributions to understanding in the arts, humanities, or related social sciences.
Arlene Carney (U vice provost for faculty and academic affairs and professor, speech-language-hearing sciences), Benjamin Munson (speech-language-hearing sciences), and Elizabeth Collison (master's candidate, speech-language-hearing sciences) received the Editor's Award from the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.