THE CLARENCE DAY DEAN’S AWARD FOR
RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY
Eligibility – Full-time members of the Rhodes Faculty who have taught at least three years at Rhodes and who have not previously been awarded this prize.
Criteria for Selection – The award recipient has accomplished unusually significant professional work in the past three years.
This work consists of scholarly or research publication, or is exhibited in artistic productions or performances.
This work is judged to be an important contribution to the award recipient’s discipline or related disciplines.
This work must be demonstrated to have had an important effect on the award recipient’s teaching, directly benefiting Rhodes students by its influence on course content or pedagogy.
Nominations – should be forwarded to the office of Academic Affairs and must be received by Mid-April. Department chairs should assume a special responsibility for nominating department members who are likely to be strong candidates. The nomination should clearly identify the work that provides the basis for the nomination. If possible, the nominator should provide evidence that the work is of unusual significance and that it has influenced the nominee’s teaching. Nominations can be submitted electronically to academicaffairs@rhodes.edu.
Past awardees are:
1981 John Copper
1982 Not awarded
1983 Jack Farris
1984 Richard Gilliom
1985 David Kesler
1986 Tony Garner
1987 James Olcese
1988 John Copper
1989 Alan Jaslow
1990 Jack Taylor
1991 Marcus Pohlmann
1992 Steve McKenzie
1993 Robert Strandburg
1994 Andrew Michta
1995 Brian Shaffer
1996 Cynthia Marshall
1997 Steve Haynes
1998 Robert MacQueen
1999 Gail Streete
2000 Susan Kus
2001 Mike Nelson
2002 Lynn Zastoupil
2003 Natalie Person
2004 David McCarthy
2005 Daniel Arce
2006 Ming Dong Gu
2007 Marshall Boswell
2008 Mary Miller
2009 Chris Mouron
2010 Terry Hill/Darlene Loprete
2011 Jeff Jackson
2012 Shadrack Nasong’o
2013 Patrick Gray
2014 Katherine White
2015 Christopher Seaton
2016 Carole Blankenship
2017 Betsy Sanders
2018 Marsha Walton
2019 Michael LaRosa
2020 David Rupke
2021 Scott Newstok
2022 Zachary Casey
2023 William Skoog