Ohio State University Awards
Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching is Ohio State University's most eminent teaching prize. Nominations are solicited from present and former students and colleagues, and a committee of alumni, students, and faculty selects the winners. Each year, ten Alumni Award winners are chosen from among the university's 8,000-some faculty. Bestowal of the award includes automatic admission into the university's Academy of Teaching, which provides leadership in the mission of providing excellent instruction across campus.
As a community of scholars who value excellence in teaching, the Department of History is proud of its faculty who have won the Alumni Award:
- 2022 — Theodora Dragostinova
- 2018 — Greg Anderson; Bart Elmore
- 2015 — Robin Judd
- 2013 — David Hoffman
- 2012 — Hasan Kwame Jefferies
- 2011 — Nicholas B. Breyfogle; Lilia Fernández; Scott Levi
- 2010 — Kevin Boyle; Richard D. Shiels
- 2009 — Randolph Roth; David H. Steigerwald
- 2008 — Leslie M. Alexander
- 2006 — Geoffrey Parker
- 2005 — Mitchell Lerner
- 2002 — Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
- 2000 — Alan D. Beyerchen; Allison B. Gilmore; R. Vladimir Steffel
- 1999 — Mark Grimsley
- 1987 — Williamson Murray
- 1986 — Bradley Chapin
- 1984 — Jack M. Balcer; Leila J. Rupp
- 1983 — Frederick C. Dahlstrand; Allan R. Millett
- 1978 — Joseph H. Lynch; Merritt Roe Smith
- 1976 — Robert H. Bremner
- 1972 — Robert L. Chazan
- 1965 — William F. McDonald
- 1963 — Harold J. Grimm
College of Arts and Sciences Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Award
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Awards honors 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.
2025 - Robin Judd
2024 - Peter Hahn
2023 - Christopher Otter
2022 - Margaret Newell
2021 - Randolph Roth
2019 - Alice Conklin
2018 - Jane Hathaway
2017 - David Hoffmann
College of Arts and Sciences Arts and Sciences Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award
The Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments by faculty whose research, teaching and service promote diversity and support a culture that exhibits inclusive excellence, community and openness.
2025 - Ousman Kobo
2024 - Margaret Newell
2023 - Nicholas Breyfogle
2022 - Alcira Dueñas
2021 - Clayton Howard
2020 - John Brooke and Stephanie Shaw for the 1619 and Beyond Seminar Series
2019 - Alice Conklin
2018 - Hasan Kwame Jeffries
2015 - Lilia Fernandez
2008 - Faculty of Color Caucus
2006 - Lucy Murphy
College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award (presented by the Arts and Sciences Student Council)
The Outstanding Teaching Award recognizes a College of Arts and Sciences faculty member 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, and only undergraduate students may submit nominations for this award.
2019 - Hasan Kwame Jeffries
2012-2013 - Randy Roth
2008 - Greg Anderson
2005 - James Bartholomew
1983 - Jack Balcer
1959 - Harvey Goldberg
1957 - Foster Rhea Dulles
1955 - Paul A. Varg
1951 - Harold J. Grimm
College of Humanities (1968-2010)
Humanities Distinguished Professor of History
2004 - Carole Fink
Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award (presented by the Office of Human Resources)
2019 - Stephanie Shaw
2009 - Lucy Murphy and Dick Shiels for the Newark Earthworks Center
2008 - Faculty of Color Caucus
2007 - Judy Wu
1998 - DIOP
Distinguished Scholar Award (Office of Academic Affairs)
2024 - Sara Butler
2020 - Margaret Newell
2018 - Jane Hathaway
2016 - Alice Conklin
2011 - Timothy Gregory
2009 - Stephen Dale
2007 - Carole Fink
2001 - Leila Rupp
2000 - Carter Findley
1997 - Joseph Lynch
Distinguished University Professor Award (Office of Academic Affairs)
2025 - Peter Hahn
2007 - Geoffrey Parker
2000 - Joseph Lynch
Graduate Faculty Mentor Award (Graduate School)
2025 - David Hoffmann
Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award
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 with gifts from Mrs. Anne Hatcher and her family from Ann Arbor, Michigan, in honor and memory of Dr. Harlan Hatcher, an alumnus and former dean of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University.
2019 - Margaret Newell
2014 - Jane Hathaway
2007 - Geoffrey Parker
Honors Faculty Service Award (ASC)
The Honors Faculty Service Award recognizes excellence in honors advising, honors instruction, honors committee work and other honors initiatives and responsibilities which have enhanced the quality of education available to honors students in the liberal arts.
2024 - Mitchell Lerner
2023 - Thomas McDow
2022 - Robin Judd
2019 - J. Albert Harrill
1998 - K. Austin Kerr
Joseph Sullivant Medal
(This award is only given once every 5 years.)
2021 - Geoffrey Parker
1980 - Robert H. Bremner
1930 - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.
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.
2024 - Robin Judd
2023 - Heather Tanner
2020 - Christopher Otter
Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award (ASC)
The Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award in English and History recognizes a faculty member in the Department of English and a faculty member in the Department of History for teaching excellence.
2025 - Tryntje Helfferich
2024 - Sarah Van Beurden
2023 - Clayton Howard
2022 - Margaret Sumner
2021 - Jennifer Eaglin
2020 - Stephanie Smith
2019 - Mytheli Sreenivas
2018 - Ying Zhang
2017 - Theodora Dragostinova
2016 - Birgitte Soland
2015 - Stanley Blake
2014 - Dodie McDow
2013 - Kristina Sessa
2012 - Greg Anderson
2011 - Nate Rosenstein
2010 - Chris Otter
President's and Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty Service (Office of Academic Affairs)
2025 - Mitchell Lerner
1999 - Susan Hartmann
Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring in Humanities (ASC)
The Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring supports a member of the humanities faculty who exemplifies excellence teaching undergraduates. While the emphasis is on outstanding performance in the classroom, the selection committee also considers the nominee's performance as a mentor or advisor and use of innovative teaching strategies for the advancement of learning.
2025 - María Hammack
2024 - Margaret Sumner
2023 - Geoffrey Parker
2022 - Thomas McDow
2017 - Randy Roth
2009 - Robin Judd
1999 - Alan Beyerchen
1997 - Mark Grimsley
Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award (ASC)
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty who demonstrate creative teaching and extraordinary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students. Each Ratner Award winner receives a $10,000 cash prize, as well as a $15,000 teaching account to fund future projects.
In 2014, Ronald and Deborah Ratner gave $1 million to establish the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Awards. Ronald Ratner, of RMS Investment Group, is also the former director and executive vice president of development for Forest City Realty Trust Inc. He served on the Ohio State Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2015, having been appointed by former Gov. Ted Strickland. Deborah B. Ratner founded ArtWorks, a Cleveland-based arts apprenticeship program, and Reel Women Direct, an award for women film directors.
2023 - Elizabeth Bond
2022 - Bart Elmore
2021 - Ousman Kobo
2020 - David Hoffmann
2019 - Theodora Dragostinova
2018 - Robin Judd
2017 - Mytheli Sreenivas
2017 - Alison Beach
Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award (ASC)
The Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award is given annually to a faculty member, staff member or student who has demonstrated outstanding mentoring to and/or leadership on behalf of women or other historically underrepresented groups at the university.
2024-2025 - Alyssa Reynolds
2022 - Ousman Kobo
2020 - Heather Tanner
2018 - Daniel Rivers
University Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award
2023 - Kent "Kip" Curtis
2018 - Stephanie Shaw
External (Non-Ohio State) Awards
Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Paris
Gustave Chaix d’Est Ange Award
2004 - Bruno Cabanes
La Victoire endeuillée (Seuil, 2004)
American Council of Learned Societies
ACLS Fellowship
2025 - Theodora Dragostinova
American Historical Association
Award for Lifetime Scholarly Distinction
2023 - Geoffrey Parker
American Historical Association
George Louis Beer Prize
2005 - Carole Fink
Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, The Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
1985 - Carole Fink
The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-22 (University of North Carolina Press, 1984; reprinted by Syracuse University Press, 1993)
Mike Hogan
American Historical Association
Herbert Feis Award
2022 - Nicholas Breyfogle
American Historical Association
Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History
2016 - Bruno Cabanes
The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924 (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
American Library Association (ALA)
Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title
2018 - Yiğit Akın
When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire
American Society of Criminology
Distinguished Scholar Award
2022 - Randolph Roth
Association for the Study of Nationalities and Harriman Institute, Columbia University
The Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies
2012 - Theodora Dragostinova (honorable mention)
Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria,1900-1949 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011).
Association of Women in Slavic Studies
The Heldt Prize
Awarded for the for best book by a woman-identifying scholar in any area of Slavic, East European, or Eurasian Studies
2022 - Theodora Dragostinova (honorable mention)
The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021)
British Academy Medal
(Awarded for landmark scholarly achievement which has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study.)
2014 - Geoffrey Parker
Bulgarian Studies Association
The John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize
2023 - Theodora Dragostinova (co-winner)
The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021)
Dan David Prize
(The largest history prize in the world)
2022 - Bart Elmore
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow
2023 - Theodora Dragostinova
Foundation for Pacifist Quest
Akira Iriye Prize
(Awarded for the best book in international history.)
2005 - Carole Fink
Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
H. F. Guggenheim Award
2001 - Geoffrey Parker
Heineken Prize for History
(Awarded every two years to the scholar "deemed to have had the greatest impact on the profession.")
2012 - Geoffrey Parker
Henkel Foundation, Germany
Research Award
2020 - Carole Fink
J. S. Guggenheim Award
2002 - Geoffrey Parker
Modern Greek Studies Association
The Edmund Keeley Book Prize
2012 - Theodora Dragostinova (honorable mention)
Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria,1900-1949 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011).
NEH Award
2014 - Geoffrey Parker
Ohio Academy of History
Distinguished Historian Award
2026 - Bruno Cabanes
2022 - Geoffrey Parker
2018 - Timothy Gregory
2017 - Susan Hartmann
2015 - Jane Hathaway
2007 - Stephen Kern
2005 - Mansel Blackford
Ohio Academy of History
Publication Award
2020 - Geoffrey Parker
2019 - Joan Cashin
2018 - Sam White
2014 - Daniel Rivers (Junior Faculty Award)
2014 - Alice Conklin
2012 - John Brooke
2011 - Carter Findley
2007 - David Stebenne
2006 - Nicholas Breyfogle
2005 - Jane Hathaway
1995 - David Hoffmann
1994 - John Burnham
1993 - Raymond Dominick
1990 - Carter Findley
1988 - Michael Hogan
1987 - Joseph Lynch
Ohio Academy of History
Teaching Award
2024 - Heather Tanner
2023 - Sara Butler
2020 - Lucy Murphy
2019 - Robin Judd
2018 - Mitch Lerner
2014 - Greg Anderson
2007 - Randy Roth
1999 - Alan Beyerchen
1995 - Leila Rupp
The Royal Historical Society, UK
First Book Prize (formerly the Whitfield Prize)
2025 - Laura Flannigan
Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547
The Society for French Historical Studies
David H. Pinkney Prize
2022 - Elizabeth Bond
The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France
2014 - Alice Conklin
In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 (Cornell University Press, 2013).
The Society for the History of Technology
Dexter Prize
(Awarded for the "best book" in the field published 1987-90.)
1990 - Geoffrey Parker
The Society for Military History
Distinguished Book Prize
(Awarded for non-US military history book.)
2014 - Geoffrey Parker
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
The Society for Military History
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize
(Conferred by the Society for Military History for contributions to the field of military history.)
1999 - Geoffrey Parker
The World War One Historical Association (WW1HA)
The Tomlinson Book Prize
2019 - Yiğit Akın
When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire
Turkish Social Science Association
Distinguished Young Social Scientist Award
2005 - Yiğit Akın
Gürbüz ve Yavuz Evlatlar: Erken Cumhuriyet'te Beden Terbiyesi ve Spor
Membership in Learned Societies, Honorary Degrees, Etc.
American Historical Review
Associate Review Editor and Member of the Editorial Board
2023-2026 - Theodora Dragostinova - 2023-2026
Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies
Member-at-Large, Board of Directors
2020-2023 - Theodora Dragostinova (elected)
Casa of the Black Seminole Diaspora of Coahuila, Mexico
Key to the Comunidad Negros Mascogos
2025 - María Hammack
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2017 - Geoffrey Parker
Fellow of the British Academy
1984 - Geoffrey Parker
Fellow of the Real Academia Hispano-Americana de Ciencias, Artes y Letras, Cádiz, Spain
2004 - Geoffrey Parker
Foreign Member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
(Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
2005 - Geoffrey Parker
Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Universidad de Burgos
2010 - Geoffrey Parker
Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels
1990 - Geoffrey Parker
International Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2016 - Geoffrey Parker
Knighthood Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X el Sabio conferred by the Prime Minister of Spain
1996 - Geoffrey Parker
Knighthood Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica conferred by His Majesty the King of Spain
1992 - Geoffrey Parker
Member of the American Philosophical Society
2023 - Geoffrey Parker
National Endowment for the Humanities
2025-26 - Alcira Dueñas
University of Sydney
Mandelbaum Distinguished Chair in History
2025 - Carole Fink
2038 - Carole Fink