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Awards of Distinction

Selection of Recipients for the CAH Awards of Distinction

Each year, the College of Arts and Humanities makes one award to a faculty member for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.

All full-time temporary, tenure-track, non-tenure track, and tenured faculty who have completed at least one year of teaching at Georgia Southern University at the time of the application are eligible for any of the three awards.

To be eligible for an Award of Distinction, faculty members must have their appointments in the College of Arts and Humanities.

Faculty members may either nominate a colleague or apply themselves for an award in one of the three categories. Each nomination or application should focus either on one specific contribution of distinction in the category or a series of closely related contributions. Preference will be given to contributions of distinction that occurred during the immediately preceding calendar year (January 1-December 31).

The official nominating form can be found here. A single application or nomination should be submitted on each form.

The deadline for submission is April 30 with awards announced at the Spring faculty meeting. If, in the judgment of either the selection committee or the dean, sufficient applications of merit are not received in any or all categories by the original deadline, the deadline will be extended and the awards announced by the end of the following fall semester.

CAH Awards of Distinction will not be awarded to the same faculty member in two consecutive years.

Nominations are due by April 30. Click here for the nomination form.

Latest Recipients

  • Teaching
    • Dr. Olivia Carr Edenfield
      Professor
      Department of English
  • Scholarship
    • Dr. Amanda Konkle
      Associate Professor
      Department of English
  • Service
    • Ms. Karla Jennings
      Lecturer
      Department of Communication Arts

Award of Excellence

Selection of Recipient of the CAH Award of Excellence

The CAH Award of Excellence honors outstanding activity by faculty members early in their career. This award is open to full-time faculty members in the College of Arts and Humanities who are:

  1. Tenure-track or non-tenure.
  2. In their first ten years of college-level teaching.
  3. Outstanding in a wide range of activities, including teaching, scholarship or creative activity, and service.
  4. Supporting materials (such items as summaries of student ratings of instruction, peer evaluations, lists of publications and presentations, additional letters of support, representative course materials, and so on) may be submitted but must be limited to 10 additional pages.
  5. All nominations must be received in the CAH Dean’s Office by April 15.
  6. A selection committee for the award will be chosen by the dean. The committee will submit its recommendations to the dean who will make the final decision.
  7. The recipient of the CAH Award of Excellence is announced at the first college faculty meeting of the academic year.

Nominations are due by April 30. Click here for the nomination form.

Current and Past Awards of Excellence Recipients

  • 2023 Daniel Larkin, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
  • 2022 Felicity Turner, Department of History
  • 2021 Annie Mendenhall, Department of Writing & Linguistics
  • 2020 Amanda Konkle, Assistant Professor, Department of Literature
  • 2019 Daniel Pioske, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
  • 2017 Sarah McCarroll, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Arts
  • 2016 April M. Scheuths, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  • 2015 Laura Stambaugh, Associate Professor, Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music
  • 2014 Bradley Sturz, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
  • 2013 Dustin R. Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Literature/Philosophy
  • 2012 John D. Thompson Assistant Professor, Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music
  • 2011 Dr. Bryant Smalley, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
  • 2010 Dr. Krista Wiegand, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
  • 2009 Dr. Jose Manuel Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures

Ruffin Cup Award

The Ruffin Cup recognizes the highest achievement in teaching, scholarship, and service in the College of Arts and Humanities. It is awarded annually to a teacher-scholar with at least ten years of service to Georgia Southern who has combined excellent teaching with outstanding contributions to the spirit of the liberal arts.

In April of each year, the dean asks faculty members to submit nominations for Ruffin Cup recipients no later than April 15.

The Dean reviews these nominations with an advisory committee and then, meeting jointly with at least one department chair or senior faculty member, chooses that year’s recipient.

The recipient of the Ruffin Cup is announced at the first college faculty meeting of the academic year.

Nominations are due by April 30. Click here for the nomination form.

Current and Past Ruffin Cup Recipients

  • 2023 Michael Pemberton, Department of English
  • 2022 Carol Jamison, Department of English
  • 2021 Kathleen Comerford, Department of History
  • 2020 Maria Adamos, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
  • 2019 Michael McGrath, Department of World Languages and Cultures
  • 2017 Michael Nielsen, Department of Psychology
  • 2016 William L. Smith, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  • 2015 Douglass Thomson, Department of Literature & Philosophy
  • 2014 Linda Cionitti, Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music
  • 2013 Janie H. Wilson, Department of Psychology
  • 2012 Craig H. Roell, Department of History
  • 2011 Sandra Peacock, Department of History
  • 2010 Bruce Little, Department of Art
  • 2009 Eric Nelson, Department of Writing and Linguistics
  • 2008 Janice Kennedy, Department of Psychology
  • 2007 Gary Dartt, Department of Communication Arts
  • 2006 David Alley, Department of World Languages and Cultures
  • 2005 Vernon Egger, Department of History
  • 2004 Richard Rogers, Department of Psychology
  • 2003 Michael Braz, Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music
  • 2002 Sue M. Moore, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  • 2001 Jane Rhoades Hudak, Department of Art
  • 2000 Walter J. Fraser, Department of History
  • 1999 Margaret A. Lloyd, Department of Psychology
  • 1998 John H. Daily, Department of Political Science
  • 1997 George H. Shriver, Jr., Department of History
  • 1996 Roger G. Branch, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  • 1995 C. Charlton Moseley, Department of History
  • 1994 J. Norman Wells, Department of Mathematics and CSC
  • 1993 Daniel B. Good, Department of Geology and Geography
  • 1992 Gale A. Bishop, Department of Geology and Geography
  • 1991 R. Frank Saunders, Jr., Department of History
  • 1990 Lowell Bouma, Department of World Languages and Cultures
  • 1989 G. Hewitt Joiner, Jr., Department of History
  • 1988 John B. Humma, Department of Literature and Philosophy
  • 1987 Hollis Cate, Department of Literature and Philosophy
  • 1986 Sturgis McKeever, Department of Biology
  • 1985 Lane Van Tassell, Department of Political Science
  • 1984 Robert D. Ward, Department of History
  • 1983 George A. Rogers, Department of History
  • 1982 Donald A. Olewine, Department of Biology (posthumously)