University Awards

2024-2025
  • Excellence in teaching: Bill Engel and Shuler Hopkins
  • Excellence in scholarship and/or creative production: Andrea Mansker
  • Excellence in service to the institution: Julian Ledford 
  • Excellence in academic advising: Evan Joslin 
2023-2024
  • Excellence in teaching: Misha Rai
  • Excellence in scholarship and/or creative production: Kristen Cecala
  • Excellence in service to the institution: Andrea Hatcher 
  • Excellence in academic advising: Christopher Shelley 
2022-2023
  • Excellence in teaching: Lily Thompson
  • Excellence in scholarship and/or creative production: Stephanie McCarter
  • Excellence in service to the institution: Elise Kikis and Amy Patterson
  • Excellence in academic advising: Maha Jafri
2021-2022
  • Excellence in teaching: Kate Cammack 
  • Excellence in scholarship and/or creative production: David Haskell and Ben Mangrum
  • Excellence in service to the institution: Jennifer Matthews 
  • Excellence in advising: Julian Ledford and Liesl Allingham
2020-2021
  • Excellence in teaching: Emily Puckette
  • Excellence in scholarship and/or creative production: Sean Patrick O'Rourke and Celeste Ray
  • Excellence in service to the institution: Clint Smith and Alyssa Summers
  • Excellence in advising: Aaron Elrod
2019-2020
  • Excellence in teaching: Clint Smith
  • Excellence in scholarship and/or creative production: John Gatta
  • Excellence in service to the institution: Donna Murdock
  • Excellence in advising: Al Bardi
2018-2019
  • Excellence in teaching: Melody Lehn
  • Excellence in scholarship and/or creative production: Woody Register
  • Excellence in service to the institution: Stephanie McCarter
2017-2018
  • Excellence in teaching: Catherine Cavagnaro
  • Excellence in scholarship and/or creative production: Pradip Malde
  • Excellence in service to the institution: Pamela Macfie
2016-2017
  • Excellence in teaching: George Poe
  • Excellence in scholarship and/or creative production: Bill Engel and Amy Patterson
  • Excellence in service to the institution: Ruth Sanchez
2015-2016
  • Excellence in teaching: Angela Jordan and Kevin Wilson
  • Excellence in scholarship and/or creative production: Greg Clark
  • Excellence in service to the institution: Deborah McGrath and Betsy Sandlin

International, National, and Regional Awards (selected and recent)

2024-2025

  • Guggenheim Fellowship: Stephanie McCarter

  • Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award: Stephanie Batkie 

  • Nomination for the 67th Grammy Awards: Kerry Ginger, Erik Gustafson, and Sarah Rimkus 

2023-2024

  • Southeastern Section of the Mathmatical Association of America's Distinguished Teaching Award: Anne Duffee

  • Acoustical Society of America's Science Communication Award: David Haskell

  • Harold Morton Landon Translation Award: Stephanie McCarter

  • Kennan Institute Senior Scholar Fellowship: Susanna Weygandt

  • TN Arts Commission Fellowship: Elyzabeth Wilder 

2020-2021
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship: Sean Patrick O'Rourke
2019-2020

  • National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Intern: Kerry Ginger

  • American Association of University Women (AAUW) Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship: Maha Jafri

  • Southern States Communication Association J. Donald Ragsdale Award for Excellence in Mentorship: Sean Patrick O'Rourke


2018-2019
  • Federal Aviation Administration Safety Representative of the Year: Catherine Cavagnaro
  • Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame Inductee: Catherine Cavagnaro
  • John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing: David Haskell

2017-2018
  • American Psychological Association Outstanding Contribution to the Science of Trauma Psychology: Sherry Hamby
  • China Times Openbook Best Book for Life Award: David Haskell
  • Society for the Teaching of Psychology's Jane Halonen Teaching Excellence Award for Early Career Faculty: Jordan Troisi
  • Southern States Communication Association Dwight L. Freshley Award for Outstanding New Teacher: Melody Lehn
2016-2017

  • Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance: Kerry Ginger

  • Dapeng Nature Writing Award: David Haskell


2015-2016

  • Southern States Communication Association Outreach Award for Facilitating the Success and Access of Under-Represented Populations: Sean Patrick O'Rourke

  • Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association's Jacqueline Elliott Award for Outstanding Service: Laurie Anne Ramsey
2014-2015

  • Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship: Mila Dragojevic

  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship: David Haskell

  • American Psychological Association Early Career Achievement Award: Jordan Troisi