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Home > News & Events > CLA Today Archive > Summer 2003 : Faculty Awards & Accolades

Faculty Awards & Accolades

Marcia Eaton (philosophy) was awarded the University's Distinguished Women Scholars Award in Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts for 2003. (See story.)

Paul Sackett (psychology) received the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Organizational and Industrial Psychology. The award recognizes scientific achievements in industrial-organizational psychology, the study of human behavior in the workplace.

Sackett is internationally recognized for his research on the development and validation of employee selection systems. His work includes study of the tension between designing selection systems to maximize job performance and those intended to maximize ethnic, racial, and gender diversity; measurement and prediction of counterproductive workplace behavior; assessment of managerial potential; and the role of personality in personnel selection.

Lisa Disch (political science), Josephine Lee (English), and Andrew Elfenbein (English) received the 2002–03 Horace T. Morse University of Minnesota Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education.

Recipients of the award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education were Sara Evans (history) and John Mowitt (cultural studies and comparative literature).

Daphne Berdahl (anthropology), Genevieve Escure (English), and Diane Katsiaficas (art) received McKnight Research Awards, sponsored by the University's McKnight Arts and Humanities Endowment and given for outstanding research and creative work.

Ray Gonzalez (English) received a 2003 Minnesota Book Award for his recent book of poetry, The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande, which also was nominated for a 2002 Pulitzer Prize. He received the same award in 2001 for Turtle Pictures. His book The Ghost of John Wayne was named Best Book of Short Fiction by the Western Heritage Foundation. In previous years, Gonzalez received the McKnight Loft Fellowship in Poetry for 2002–03, the University's McKnight Land Grant Professorship (1999–2001), the President's Multicultural Research Award (1999–2001), and the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award for Excellence in Literature (1997).

Thomas Augst, Patricia Crain, and Eric Daigre received the University of Minnesota Community Service Award. The three English deparment colleagues cofounded the Literacy Lab, which integrates civic engagement and service learning into the curriculum of literary studies; creates new opportunities for independent study and literacy research for students; fosters the exchange of skills, knowledge, and experience between students and community learning partners; and develops a new institutional model for collaborative research and teaching in the humanities. Visit the literacy lab website.

Steve Ruggles (history) received the Population Association of America's prestigious Robert J. Lapham Award, which recognizes contributions to population research, applications of demographic knowledge to improve the human condition, and service to the population profession. Ruggles was honored for his creation of key demographic datasets and his innovative efforts to make the data accessible.

Barbara Reid (emerita, theatre arts and dance) was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center—one of the highest honors theatre educators and professionals can confer on their peers.

Brenda Child (American studies) received the University of Minnesota Community Service Award for her dedication to enhancing connections, interactions, and cultural understanding with and among Native American people. The award recognizes Child's contributions to community service and public engagement on behalf of the University.

For his work as a poet and literary scholar, George T. (“Ted”) Wright (Regents’ Professor emeritus, English) received the prestigious Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for lifetime achievement. University of Wisconsin Press recently published Hearing the Measures: Shakespearean and Other Inflections—described by the publisher as “an eminent scholar's guide to hearing poets' work”: The book “helps us hear the measures poets use to conjure up strangeness, urgency, distance, surprise, the immediacy of speech, or the sounding of silence.”

Elaine Tyler May (American Studies) was awarded the Fesler-Lampert Chair for 2003–04. May's work centers on the intersections of gender, sexuality, domestic culture, and politics. She explores how issues normally considered part of private life— such as family, consumerism, and leisure pursuits—reflect, express, and influence American political, cultural, and social values.

Michal Kobialka (theatre arts and dance) was awarded the Fesler-Lampert Professorship for 2003–04. Kobialka's book on early medieval drama and theatre, This Is My Body: Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages (U of Michigan Press, 1999) received the 2000 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Research Award for Outstanding Book in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy.

Lou Bellamy (theatre arts and dance) and the Penumbra Theatre (of which Bellamy is founder and artistic director) were presented with the Thomas De Gaetani Award in honor of his outstanding lifetime contribution to the performing arts community.

Gary Thomas (cultural studies and comparative literature) and Éden Torres (Chicano studies and women's studies) are the 2002–03 recipients of CLA's Arthur “Red” Motley Exemplary Teaching Award.

Norman Dahl (philosophy) was awarded the Outstanding Directors of Graduate Studies award for his work with graduate students; Judith Mitchell (assistant in political science) received the Outstanding Directors of Graduate Studies’ Assistant award.

2003 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Choreographers were awarded to three U of M dance instructors: Danny Buraczeski, Paula Mann, and Susana di Palma. Each fellow will receive a $25,000 fellowship award and will receive in-kind production support for staged work.

Jane Anderson (CLA Student Services) received the John Tate Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Advising for her contributions to undergraduate education.

Susan Wagner (music) was awarded the Civil Service and Bargaining Unit (CS/BU) Award for 2003 for her leadership and initiative in efforts to improve the working environment for CS/BU employees at the University.

Lance Brockman (theatre arts and dance) and Leonard Polakiewicz (linguistics, English as a second language, and Slavic languages and literatures) received the 2003 University of Minnesota President's Award for Outstanding Service.