Faculty Awards

Spring 2022 Awards

• Dr. Kathleen Comerford was awarded the Ruffin Cup for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.
• Dr. Corinna Zeltsman’s book, Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (University of California Press, 2021), received the  the Howard F Cline Book Prize in Mexican History from the Latin American Studies Association.
• Kurt Knoerl was awarded an Americana Corner research grant of $2,500. for mapping equipment to support field research in maritime history.

Fall 2021 Awards

• Julie de Chantal and Kurt Knoerl were awarded a Georgia Sea Grant’s Artists, Writers, and Scholars (AWS) grant of $5000 for their joint project: The African American Maritime Landscape of Coastal Georgia.

Fall 2020 Awards

• Michael Hall won the Association of the Global South Studies Presidential Award at the group’s annual conference in December.  

• Corinna Zeltsman, CLEC grant of $3000 to bring a speaker on the History of Latino/as in the US South to campus this spring

• Alena Pirok, Georgia Humanities Grant of $1350 for her graduate class on Urban Public History in the spring semester

• Michael van Wagenen, as part of a collaborative campus and community effort for the Ogeechee International History Film Festival, a Georgia Humanities Grant of $2000

Spring 2020 Awards

• Jeffrey Burson Received the University Research Award for Discovery and Innovation

2019 Awards

• Kurt Knoerl received the Kristina Brockmeier Faculty Award for outstanding teaching and significant service to the university and its students.

2012 Awards

• Craig Roell was awarded the Ruffin Cup for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.

2011 Awards

• Sandra Peacock was awarded the Ruffin Cup for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.

2005 Awards

• Vernon Egger was awarded the Ruffin Cup for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.

2000 Awards

• Walter J. Fraser was awarded the Ruffin Cup for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.

1997 Awards

• George Shriver was awarded the Ruffin Cup for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.

1995 Awards

• Charlton Moseley was awarded the Ruffin Cup for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.

1991 Awards

• R. Frank Saunders, Jr. was awarded the Ruffin Cup for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.

1989 Awards

• G. Hewitt Joiner was awarded the Ruffin Cup for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.

1984 Awards

• Robert David Ward was awarded the Ruffin Cup for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.

1983 Awards

• George A. Rogers was awarded the Ruffin Cup for distinctive achievement in each of the following three categories: Teaching, Scholarship/Creativity, and Service.

Last updated: 10/26/2022