History
Distinguished Faculty and Staff Awards
Frederick A.P. Barnard Distinguished Professorships
Frederick A.P. Barnard Distinguished Professors are recognized for their excellence and innovation in teaching and research.
- WINTHROP D JORDAN - WILLIAM F WINTER PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES (1998)
Dr. Mike L. Edmonds New Scholar Award
This award will be presented annually to untenured, tenure- track professorial rank faculty members in the College who have demonstrated exemplary performance in research, scholarship, and/or creative achievement.
- Jessica C Wilkerson - Assistant Process of History and Southern Studies (2020)
- Darren E Grem - Associate Professor of United States South History (2018)
Howell Family Outstanding Teacher of the Year
Renamed in 2017, this yearly award recognizes excellence in instruction, care and inspiration of students. CLA faculty members of professorial rank (assistant to full professor) are eligible. Past recipients, temporary and visiting faculty are ineligible.
- Vivian Ibrahim-Dinius - Associate Professor of History and Director of the Office of National Scholarship Advisement (2020)
College of Liberal Arts - Outstanding Teacher of the Year
In 1985, the College of Liberal Arts began this award to recognize faculty members who demonstrate excellence of class instruction, intellectual stimulation of students, and concern for students welfare.
- John R Neff - Associate Professor of History and Director of Civil War Research Center (2005)
- Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez - Professor of History (2001)
- SHEILA SKEMP - Professor Emeritus of History (1985)
Liberal Arts-RSRCH, Scholarship, & Creative Achievement Award in the Humanities
This award will be presented annually to tenured faculty members in the College in recognition of sustained exemplary performance in research, scholarship, and/or creative achievement at the national/international level.
- Ted M Ownby - William F Winter Professor of History (2022)
- Jeffrey R Watt - Cook Chair and Professor of History (2019)
- Robbie Ethridge - Professor of Anthropology (2017)
Award for Excellence in Promoting Inclusiveness in Graduate Education
- Joseph P Ward - Adjunct Instructor in Arch Dalrymple III Department of History (2006)
Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement Award
- CHARLES R WILSON - Professor Emeritus of History and Southern Studies (2010)
Faculty Achievement Award
The Faculty Achievement Award is given annually to recognize unusual effort in the classroom, involvement with students, and active scholarship.
- SHEILA SKEMP - Professor Emeritus of History (2009)
Frist Service Award
- Charles W Eagles - Professor Emeritus of History (2010)
College of Liberal Arts - Cora Lee Graham Outstanding Teaching of Freshmen
In 1984, Cora Lee Graham of Union City, Tennessee, established an endowment and directed that the proceeds from her gift be used to help retain your better professors who teach the freshman classes in the College of Liberal Arts.
- Cornelis Gispen - Visiting Professor Emeritus of International Studies (1994)
- Jeffrey R Watt - Cook Chair and Professor of History (1991)
Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award
The Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher of the Year for the University is selected from nominations submitted by students, alumni and faculty.
- John R Neff - Associate Professor of History and Director of Civil War Research Center (2009)
University of Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the Year
The College of Liberal Arts and the Mississippi Humanities Council co-sponsor this award to highlight an outstanding humanities faculty member each fall during Arts and Humanities Month in October.
- John R Neff - Associate Professor of History and Director of Civil War Research Center (2009)
- Jeffrey R Watt - Cook Chair and Professor of History (2007)
- WINTHROP D JORDAN - WILLIAM F WINTER PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES (1998)
- CHARLES R WILSON - Professor Emeritus of History and Southern Studies (1997)