University Awards and Recognition
Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching annually recognizes faculty for teaching excellence. Recipients are recognized with an honorarium made possible by gifts from The Ohio State University Alumni Association, University Advancement, and the Office of Academic Affairs. Members are also inducted into the Academy of Teaching.
Theodora Dragostinova
Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (2022)
Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award
The Office of Human Resources and the Senate Diversity Committee annually recognizes diversity efforts at The Ohio State University. In 2023, Professor Kip Curtis was an honoree.
Kip Curtis
Distinguished Diversity
Enhancement Award (2023)
Photo courtesy of The Ohio State University.
College of Arts and Sciences Awards
Nick Breyfogle
Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award (2022-23)
Thomas "Dodie" McDow
Honors Faculty Service Award
(2022-23)
Arts and Humanities Faculty Awards
Bart Elmore
Ronald and Deborah Ratner
Distinguished Teaching Award (2022)
Geoffrey Parker
Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring (2022-23)
Clayton Howard
Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award (2022-23)
Ohio Academy of History Awards
Sara Butler
Ohio Academy of History Teaching Award (2023)
Promotions 2022-2023
Promotion from associate to full professor:
Bart Elmore, Heather Tanner
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor:
Chris Otter
Newly appointed Director for the Center for African Studies:
Ousman Kobo
Recognitions 2022-2023
Geoffrey Parker was inducted into the American Philosophical Society (famous alum: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, among others)
Fellowships 2022-2023
Paula Baker – Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Political Institutions (2023 calendar year)
Ying Zhang – American Academy in Berlin, Germany
David Brakke – National Humanities Center (Henry Luce and Hurford Family Fellowship) and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Tina Sessa – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship
Fellowships 2023-2024
David Hoffmann – Guggenheim Fellowship
Jennifer Eaglin – Woodrow Wilson Center
Sarah Van Beurden – Weatherhead Foundation
Other Awards
Nicholas Breyfogle - American Historical Association’s Herbert Feis Award
Marian Moser Jones - NEH grant to fund a Summer 2023 institute for higher education faculty on the Histories of Disease, Pandemics, and Public Health in the United States
Awards for Non-Faculty
ASC Outstanding Staff Award
Ashley Bowerman
OAH Dissertation Award
Dillon Streifeneder (PhD, 2022)
2022 OTSA (Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association) Graduate Student Paper Prize Recipient
Chris Whitehead (PhD Candidate)
2022-2023 Presidential Fellowship
Kiki Mackaman-Lofland
Tenure-track job as assistant professor of Modern American History at Montana State University in Billings
Cody Patton (PhD Candidate)
