Distinguished Faculty Leadership Award
The Distinguished Faculty Leadership Award in Arts & Sciences is awarded to an outstanding faculty member in recognition of exceptional service to the University. The award was established to recognize Arts & Sciences' long history of outstanding faculty leaders who have shaped the university, from developing educational programs and policy to serving on committees and in administration.
A call for nominations will be sent via email each spring. All tenured and tenure-track Arts & Sciences faculty, professors of the practice, and lecturers are eligible. Nominations should be submitted via webform ahead of the nomination deadline.
Past Recipients

2022
Abram Van Engen
Chair and Professor of English
Dean’s Fellow for Educational Innovations and Initiatives
Professor of Religion and Politics (by courtesy)
2021
Deanna Barch
Chair and Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Professor of Radiology
Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry
2019
Steven Fazzari
Bert A. and Jeanette L. Lynch Distinguished Professor of Economics
2018
Lynne Tatlock
Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
2017
Jean Allman
J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Center for the Humanities
2016
Henry Roediger III
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
2015
Joseph Ackerman
William Greenleaf Eliot Professor of Chemistry
2014
Mark Rollins
Professor of Philosophy
Chair of Performing Arts