2006 Faculty Awards

CHASS faculty awards were presented on May 2, 2006. Although only a few faculty members can be recognized at the event, Dean Linda Brady made it clear that every faculty member’s teaching, research, and engagement are vital to the health and future of CHASS, and very much appreciated.

Professor of Psychology Rupert Nacoste was the CHASS nominee for the UNC Board of Governors’ Teaching Award. This university award, coordinated by the Office of the Provost, is the most prestigious award given to faculty for teaching excellence.

Associate Professor of History Will Kimler was one of six University Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professors selected by the NC State Alumni Association.

Professor of Psychology Denis Gray and Professor of Anthropology Anne Schiller were the CHASS nominees for  the University Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor. This award is given by the NC State Alumni Association

CHASS recognizes our outstanding teachers with college-wide awards. Recipients are inducted into the NC State University Academy of Outstanding Teachers. The 2005 Outstanding Teachers are:

• Associate Professor of English Maria Pramaggiore, who directs the Film Studies Program
• Associate Professor of Social Work Cheryl Waites
• Professor of Philosophy Doug Jesseph. The Senior Class Board of Trustees awarded Doug Jesseph one of its four campus-wide Alumni Outstanding Teacher Awards

Associate Professor of English Wilton Barnhardt (not pictured), who directs the creative writing program, received the Lonnie and Carol Lynn Poole Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Susan Navey-Davis, a senior lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, won the CHASS Outstanding Lecturer Award.

Shannon Carey, undergraduate program coordinator for the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and Karen Young, the Psychology Department’s  Coordinator of Advising, are this year’s winners of the CHASS Outstanding Advising Awards. Nominations for these awards come from our students. Karen also received this year’s CHASS EPA Award for Excellence.

Other outstanding advising nominees were:

• Debbie Curran, Sociology and Anthropology
• Risa Ellovich, Sociology and Anthropology
• Karey Harwood, Philosophy and Religion
• Susan Navey-Davis, Foreign Languages and Literatures
• Marsha Orgeron, English
• Nehal Outlaw, Social Work
• Mindy Sopher, Communication
• Stephanie Spencer, History

Chris Mayhorn, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, received the CHASS Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. This award recognizes the assistant professor in the College judged to have the most significant professional accomplishments during the first years of his or her career at NC State.

Other nominees were:

• Feinian Chen, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
• Bill Kinsella, Assistant Professor, Communication
• Ann Ross, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
• Jason Swarts, Assistant Professor, English

William Adler, Professor of Religion, was the CHASS nominee for the NC State Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award.         

University Outstanding Extension Awards recognize excellence and promote collaborative and interdisciplinary contributions in our faculty’s work with off-campus constituencies. Toby Brody, Director of  the English as a Second Language Program in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Ann Ross, a forensic anthropologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, won University Outstanding Extension Awards. Both were inducted into the Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension.

The 2006 Faculty Awards reception was one of Linda Brady’s last official functions as CHASS dean. To show their appreciation for her, the faculty surprised Dean Brady with a gift certificate to a nursery in Oregon, where she has moved to become Provost at the University of Oregon.