Faculty Awards

TEACHING AWARDS

Members of the UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers
UTA Chancellor's Council Award (formerly the AMOCO Award)
Gertrude Golladay Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts
Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award for Outstanding Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts
Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Awarded to Adjuncts)

RESEARCH AWARDS

Members of the UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars
University Award for Distinguished Record of Research or Creative Activity
University Award for Outstanding Research Achievement or Creative Accomplishment

NOTEWORTHY

TEACHING AWARDS:

Members of the UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers

1996 - Elisabeth Cawthon, Department of History
1996 - Stanley Palmer, Department of History
1998 - Karin McCallum, Department of History
1998 - Kenneth Roemer, Department of English
1999 - Donald G. Kyle, Department of History
2000 - Joseph A. Ignani, Department of Political Science
2003 - Alan Saxe, Department of Political Science
2005 - David Silva, Department of Linguistics
2007 - Rebecca Deen, Department of Political Science
2008 - Elizabeth Morrow, Department of Music
2009 - Harry Reeder, Department of Philosophy

UTA Chancellor's Council Award (formerly the AMOCO Award)

1972 - Allan Saxe, Department of Political Science
1973 - Charles McDowell, Department of Foreign Languages
1976 - Charles McDowell, Department of Foreign Languages
1981 - Arlie V. Goyne, Jr., Department of English
1983 - Gary Stark, Department of History
1987 - Mary Ridgway, Department of Exercise Sports Activities
1988 - Kenneth M. Roemer, Department of English
1991 - Harry Reeder, Department of Philosophy & Humanities
1990 - Donald G. Kyle, Department of History
1993 - Elisabeth Cawthon, Department of History
1994 - Stanley Palmer, Department of History
1998 - Joseph A. Ignagni, Department of Political Science
2001 - Victoria A. Farrar-Myers, Department of Political Science
2003 - Rebecca Deen, Department of Political Science
2007 - Stacy Alaimo, Department of English (Graduate)
2007 - Joyce Goldberg, Department of History (Undergraduate)

Gertrude Golladay Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts

1985 - Joyce Goldberg, Department of History
1986 - Allan Saxe, Department of Political Science
1987 - Thomas Prehoditch, Department of Political Science
1988 - Ira Colby, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
1988 - Mary Ridgway, Department of Exercise Sports
1989 - Jerry Rodnitzky, Department of History
1990 - Wm. Marvin Dulaney, Department of History
1990 - Ted R. Watkins, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
1991 - Elizabeth Cawthon, Department of History
1992 - Dana L. Dunn, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
1992 - Mark Thompson, Department of Exercise Sports
1993 - James W. Stevens, Department of Political Science
1994 - Dallas L. Lacy, Department of English
1995 - David J. Silva, Linguistics Program
1996 - Chinita A. Heard, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
1997- Joseph A. Ignagni, Department of Political Science
1997 - Joe Chapa, Theatre Arts Program
1998 - George Chave, Department of Music
1998 - Beth Anne Shelton, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
1999 - Simone Turbeville, Department of English
1999 - Gail O'Brien, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice
2000 - Donald Kyle, Department of History
2001 - Alejandro del Carmen, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
2002 - Rebecca Deen, Department of Political Science
2003 - Charla Markham-Shaw, Department of Communication
2004 - Andrew Gaupp, Department of Theatre Arts
2005 - Elmer Polk, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
2006 - Rhonda Dobbs, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
2007 - Alan Saxe, Department of Political Science
2008 - Allan Saxe, Department of Political Science
2009 - Stanley Palmer, Department of History

Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award for Outstanding Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts

2000 - Vicki Sapp, Department of English
2001 - Eric Bolsterli, Department of History
2002 - Dallas Lacy, Department of English
2003 - Cora Mosley, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
2004 - James Hawthorne, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
2005 - James Hawthorne, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
2006 - Patricia Eddings, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
2007 - Cynthia Northrup, Department of History
2008 - Cynthia Northrup, Department of History
2009 - Leonardo (Buddy) Strittmatter, Department of Modern Languages

Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Awarded to Adjuncts)

2001 - Eric J. Bolsterli, Department of History
2003 - Vicki Sapp, Department of English

RESEARCH AWARDS:

Members of the UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars

2004 - Joseph W. Bastien, Anthropology Program
2004 - Richard Francaviglia, Department of History
2004 - Susan Hekman, Department of Political Science
2005 - Kenneth M. Roemer, Department of English
2006 - Jerold Edmondson, Department of Linguistics & TESOL
2007 - David Keens, Department of Art and Art History
2008 - Wendy Faris, Department of English

University Award for Distinguished Record of Research or Creative Activity

1979 - David Keens, Department of Art & Art History
1985 - Vincent Bruno, Department of Art & Art History
1990 - Robert Longacre, Linguistics Program
1993 - Joseph W. Bastien, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
1993 - Linton Powell, Department of Music
1998 - Susan Hekman, Department of Political Science
2000 - Richard V. Francaviglia, Department of History
2004 - Kenneth M. Roemer, Department of English
2005 - Jerold A. Edmondson, Department of Linguistics and TESOL
2005 - Wendy B. Faris, Department of English

University Award for Outstanding Research Achievement or Creative Accomplishment

1980 - Joseph W. Bastien, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
1981 - Charles W. Royster, Department of History
1982 - C. W. Postlewate, Department of Music
1983 - Anthony C. Anderson, Department of Art and Art History
1983 - Sandra Myres, Department of History
1984 - Jerold Edmondson, Linguistics Program
1988 - Dale Story, Department of Political Science
1989 - Stanley Palmer, Department of History
1995 - C. Jan Swearingen, Department of English
1996 - Christopher C. Morris, Department of History
1998 - Beth Wright, Department of Art & Art History
1999 - Deborah Reed-Danahay, Anthropology Program
2006 - Laurin Porter, Department of English
2009 - Mary Vaccaro, Department of Art & Art History

NOTEWORTHY:

Barbara Chiarello, English Department
Her article "Deflected Missives: Zitkala-Sa's Resistance and Its (Un)Containment" is the lead article in the current issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures 17.3 (2005): 1-26.

David E. Narrett, History Department
Chaired a session on “Anglo-Hispanic Interactions, Past and Present” at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, in Washington D.C., in April 2006. He is also writing a book, “Frontiers of Intrigue and Imagination: The West Florida and Texas Borderlands, 1763-1821”, a result of years of research in archives from Texas to New England. The book examines the ways that U.S. expansion toward the Gulf Coast, Mississippi Valley, and Texas followed political patterns already established through British colonial rivalry with Spain.

Dr. Lauren Porter, English Department
Recent Articles:
“Musical and Literary Allusions in O’Neill’s Final Plays,” The Eugene O’Neill Review, forthcoming, Spring 2006.
“Memory and the Re-Construction of the Past: Horton Foote’s Carpetbagger’s Children,” The Horton Foote Review 1(2005): 35-42.
“The End of the Quest”: Freedom and Selfhood in O’Neill’s Late Plays,” The Eugene O’Neill Review, 27 (2005): 163-71.
Conference presentations (4) in: Provincetown, MA; San Francisco; and Waco, TX
Awards and recognition:
UTA Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 2006
Arlington Star-Telegram Service Learning Award, 2006
Provost’s Professional Development Award, 2005 and 2006

Kevin J. Porter, English Department
His book, Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse, has just been published by Parlor Press. He has also been awarded a Faculty Development Leave for AY 2006-07.

Dr. Ken Roemer, English Department
I co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, the first volume in that series to cover American Indian literature. In the past year my other recent book Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere received very positive reviews in American Literature, the Journal of American Studies, and American Literary Realism and in 2004 a full and favorable essay review in Science Fiction Studies. I continue as President of the Society for Utopian Studies and presented six papers since September 2005 at a Reception Studies Conference (2), Utopian Studies, the MLA, and the Native American Literature Symposium (2).

Jackie Stodnick, English Department
I have been accepted to an NEH seminar, The Holy Men and Women of Anglo-Saxon England, to be held for six weeks this summer at Corpus Christi College Cambridge, England.

Terri Vaughn, English Department
I am a doctoral student and a graduate teaching assistant. I have been chosen this year to represent UTA in Who's Who in American Colleges, and I will be presenting a paper at the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan on May 4th. The paper is entitled: "Dressing Judith in the Middle English Paraphrase of the Old Testament."

Kristi Wilson, English Department
Will be presenting a paper based on her thesis, "Black Sounds": Hemingway and Duende, at the 12th Annual Hemingway Conference in Spain the last week in June. She won a travel fellowship from the Hemingway Society for this conference.

Nancy Wood, English Department
Has just published the 5th edition of Perspectives on Argument and has participated this spring as a featured speaker in Faculty Development Seminars sponsored by Prentice Hall Publishers in Orlando, Phoenix, and Boston.

Nicholas Wood, Art Department
1. Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer, and studio/portfolio critiques at the University of Texas-Pan American. Presented two lectures to both the University’s Art Department, arts community of McAllen and Edinburgh Texas and additionally to the Master of Fine Arts graduate student at UTPA. Also critiqued and reviewed MFA Graduate student ‘studio portfolios”. (March ’06)
2. Curator of exhibition “Layered Stacked, Assembled” exhibition at the Arlington Museum of Art. Organized and produced a catalogue for the exhibition. (Fall/Winter ‘05)
3. Created and sold drawings for three fund raising auctions at the Center for Contemporary Art in Dallas, the Arlington Museum of Art, and the Community Arts Center in Fort Worth. (Fall ’05 – March ’06)

Christian Zlolniski, Center for Mexican American Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Recently held a book signing and presentation of Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley (University of California Press).

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