Faculty/Staff Briefs

HONORS AND AWARDS Brendan Lantz, Ph.D. (Criminology) has been named the recipient of the 2020 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Victimology Section New Scholar Award. Lantz will receive the award at the 2020 annual meeting of ACJS in San Antonio in March. This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the discipline […]

HONORS AND AWARDS Larry G. Abele, Ph.D. (Institute for Academic Leadership and provost emeritus) is the 2019 recipient of the Stan Jones Legacy Award given annually by Complete College America. The award, established in 2016 in honor of CCA’s founder and inaugural president, is given to the individual, organization or state that has consistently embodied […]

HONORS AND AWARDS Holly Hanessian, M.F.A. (Fine Arts) accepted the invitation to become a member of the International Academy of Ceramics after being nominated by international colleagues. Marina Duque, Ph.D. (Political Science) won best paper by a post-Ph.D. scholar at the 2019 meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA). Duque received the award from the […]

HONORS AND AWARDS Miranda Waggoner, Ph.D. (Sociology) was awarded the 2019 Adele E. Clarke Book Award from ReproNetwork for her book “The Zero Trimester.” The award is offered every two years to honor a groundbreaking work judged to be the most potentially influential contribution to scholarship on reproduction. Kathy Burnett, Ph.D. and Melissa Gross, Ph.D. […]

HONORS AND AWARDS Mark Pietralunga, Ph.D. (Modern Languages and Linguistics) won the 2019 Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Teachers of Italian, awarded to members with distinguished teaching and published research in the fields of Italian language, literature and civilization. Mark McNees, Ph.D. (Entrepreneurship) was awarded Tallahassee’s EntrepreneurshipInfluencer of the Year by Domi […]

HONORS AND AWARDS Alma Littles, M.D. (Medicine) received the Elizabeth Blackwell Award from the American Medical Women’s Association. The award, presented July 27 during a ceremony attended by more than 1,200 people from across the world, recognizes the woman physician who has made the most outstanding contribution to the cause of women in medicine. Shantel […]

HONORS & AWARDS  Adam Jolles, Ph.D. (Art History) received two fellowships to conduct research in summer 2019 toward his next book on art photography in the United States after World War II. Jolles won the Minor White Archive Research Grant to undertake research in May at the Princeton University Art Museum and the Harold Jones and Frances Murray […]

HONORS AND AWARDS Martin Munro, Ph.D. (Modern Languages and Linguistics) received the 2019 Visiting International Fellowship from the Society for French Studies. Munro’s fellowship is scheduled to take place in March 2020, where he will teach, deliver lectures and participate in research seminars. His research on Haiti and the French Caribbean also will be featured during a […]

HONORS AND AWARDS Malia Bruker, MFA (Communication) received the Audience Favorite for Best Documentary at the Tallahassee Film Festival for her documentary “Alluvium.” Jessica Ridgway Clayton, Ph.D. (Retail Entrepreneurship) was recognized by Sage Publishing for authoring two of the top Almetric Score-receiving articles since publication in 2016 and 2017 in the Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. Marina […]

HONORS AND AWARDS William Berry, Ph.D. (Political Science) was selected as the 2019 recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the State Politics and Policy Section of American Political Science Association in recognition of his important contributions to the study of state politics. Jessica Bahorski, Ph.D. (Nursing) was awarded the Research Poster Award at the National Association of […]

HONORS AND AWARDS Melessa Kelley, Ph.D. (Nursing) has been selected as a fellow for the 2019 IHART2 Indigenous HIV/AIDS Research Training Program beginning March 1. The IHART2 fellowship offers up to $20,000 in pilot project development seed funding as well as classes, seminars and other research training opportunities. Marina Duque, Ph.D. (Political Science) won the International Studies […]

HONORS AND AWARDS Damon Andrew, Ph.D. (Education) was named a National Association of Kinesiology in Higher Education (NAKHE) fellow. NAKHE is a leading professional organization for administrators, faculty and students in the field of kinesiology. BYLINES Gregory J. Harris, Ph.D. (Human Sciences) and Kristen Greene, Ph.D. (Human Sciences), along with recent doctoral graduate Fiorella Carlos Chavez, published a new […]