The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 recipients of endowed and college-wide awards for research, teaching, mentoring and service.

Faculty

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor

The title of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor serves to honor full professor colleagues who have excelled in teaching, service, and research/creative activity, and whose work has demonstrated significant impact on their fields, students, college and university, and/or the public.

• Robin Judd, Department of History
• Paul Reitter, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
• Yiying Wu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Service Award

• Andrew Shelton, Department of History of Art

Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award

The Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of any faculty member or team of faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences whose research, teaching and/or service/outreach activities promote diversity and support a culture that embraces and exhibits inclusive excellence, community and openness.

• John Herbert, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Ousman Kobo, Department of History
• Treva Lindsey, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award

The Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes outstanding performance in all three areas of research, teaching and service of early-career faculty at the time of promotion.

• Renee Bouley, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio State Marion
• Harriet Fertik, Department of Classics
• Demián Gómez, School of Earth Sciences
• Jennifer Kowalsky, Department of Psychology, Ohio State Newark
• Lyn Tjon Soei Len, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Emeritus Faculty Award

• Lei Bao, Department of Physics
• William Berry Lyons, School of Earth Sciences
• Cynthia Burack, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Kathy Fagan Grandinetti, Department of English
• Peter Hahn, Department of History
• Gerald Kosicki, School of Communication
• John Low, Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State Newark
• Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Department of Geography
• Harald Vaessin, Department of Molecular Genetics
• Robyn Warhol, Department of English

Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award

The Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award recognizes a full professor who has a truly exceptional record in teaching, research and service. The award was established in 2002 in honor and memory of Dr. Harlan Hatcher, an alumnus and former dean of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State.

• Angela Brintlinger, Department of Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Cultures
• Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, Department of Psychology
• Patrick Woodward, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Honors Faculty Service Award

• Mitchell Lerner, Department of History

Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow Award

The Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellowships are supported from endowment funds in honor of Joan Huber, who in her own scholarly career and as Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences from 1984-1992 set the highest standards for all. This fellowship program recognizes some of the very strongest scholars in the social and behavioral sciences disciplines.

• Hyunyi Cho, School of Communication
• Kentaro Fujita, Department of Psychology
• Vladimir Kogan, Department of Political Science
• Jennifer Mitzen, Department of Political Science

Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award

The Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes outstanding performance in all three areas of research, teaching and service of mid-career faculty at the time of promotion.

• Björn Köhnlein, Department of Linguistics
• Laura Lopez, Department of Astronomy
• Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Department of Sociology
• Margaret Price, Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award

The Outstanding Teaching Award recognizes a College of Arts and Sciences faculty member for excellence in teaching and is unique in that the entire award process is administered by the College of Arts and Sciences Student Council. Only undergraduate students may submit nominations for this award.

• Amanda Hummon, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award 

The Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award provides annual recognition for teaching excellence; one for a faculty member in the Department of English and one for a faculty member in the Department of History.

• Tryntje Helfferich, Department of History, Ohio State Lima
• Christopher Jones, Department of English

Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring

The Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring supports a member of the humanities faculty who best exemplifies excellence as a teacher of undergraduates.

• María Esther Hammack, Department of History

Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award

The Ratner Distinguished Teachings Awards are presented annually for outstanding teaching by tenured faculty in the arts and humanities. The Ratner Awards recognize faculty who have exemplary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students as well as of making a difference in students’ educations, lives and careers.

• Ashley Hope Pérez, Department of Comparative Studies
• Jody Patterson, Department of History of Art
• Jason Rawls, School of Music and Department of African American and African Studies

Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award

The Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award is presented annually to a faculty member, regular staff member or student from within the College of Arts and Sciences who demonstrates outstanding mentoring to and/or leadership on behalf of women or other historically underrepresented groups at the university.

• Kentaro Fujita, Department of Psychology
• Alyssa Reynolds, Department of History
• Christa Teston, Department of English

Virginia Hull Research Award

The Virginia Hull Award fund supports diversity at the university, consistent with the university's mission, with particular attention to, but not limited to, female faculty members in the humanities who are assistant or associate professors.

• Catalina Iannone, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
• Jada Wiggleton-Little, Department of Philosophy

Staff

Outstanding Staff Award

The Outstanding Staff Award recognizes staff members in the Arts and Sciences who have demonstrated sustained excellence in overall job performance and have improved or enhanced work life and services of faculty, staff, students and/or the university.

• Taralee Cyphers, University Press
• Jennifer Getson, Department of History
• Jeremy McKinney, Department of Microbiology
• Richard Meltz, International Studies Program
• Jenny Pfaff, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology
• Tamaki Yuri, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology

Barbara and Sheldon Pinchuk Arts-Community Outreach Award

The Barbara and Sheldon Pinchuk Arts-Community Outreach Grant is open for educational and engagement projects connecting the visual and performing arts at The Ohio State University with the Columbus community.

• Roman Suer, High School Arts Incubator Project
• Learning and Public Practice Team, Community Studios Program
• Jason Rawls, Elements of Hip-Hop Art Project

Graduate Students

Outstanding Graduate Associate Teaching Award

The Outstanding Graduate Associate Teaching Award was created by the College of Arts and Sciences Student Council and recognizes a college graduate teaching associate for excellence in teaching. This award is unique in that the entire award process is administered by the College of Arts and Sciences Student Council. Only undergraduate students may submit nominations.

• Andrew Lorig, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Service

This award honors a student who demonstrates excellence in service to the department, college, university or community. 

• Clare Austin, Department of Molecular Genetics

Graduate Student Award for Mentoring Excellence

This award honors a student who provides exemplary and effective mentoring for undergraduate and/or new graduate students.

• Chandler L'Hommedieu, Department of Political Science

Graduate Student Award for Diversity Enhancement

This award recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of a graduate student whose research, teaching, and/or service/outreach activities promote diversity and support a culture that embraces and exhibits inclusive excellence, community and openness.

• Candice Crutchfield, Department of Sociology

Graduate Student Award for Teaching Excellence

This award recognizes excellence in teaching by a graduate student in any instructional capacity, including instructor of record, recitation or lab.

• Kayla Probeyahn, Department of English
• Madison Von Deylen, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology