Distinguished Research Professor 2001 William Stueck is an expert on U.S. diplomatic history during the Cold War and author of The Korean War: An International History, which was described in the Times Literary Supplement as "the best single volume we have on the Korean War." Dr. Stueck,...
Albert Christ-Janer Award 2001 Edward J. Larson, the Richard B. Russell Professor of American History and the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law, has a long-established record of scholarship on the theory of evolution and its social implications. He is best known for his 1998 Pulitzer Prize...
Albert Christ-Janer Award 2003 Betty Jean Craige, university professor of comparative literature and director of the Center for Humanities and Arts, studies Western society’s shift in conceptual order from a dualistic to a holistic understanding of nature and culture. Her six books include a biography of the...
Albert Christ-Janer Award 2005 W. Frederick Mills is an internationally acclaimed trumpet player, arranger and conductor. A member of the Canadian Brass for 24 years, he performed as a soloist in 16 countries on five continents. He also played solo, first-chair trumpet with the American Symphony Orchestra...
Albert Christ-Janer Award 2006 William D. Davis, Professor of Music, is a world-renowned bassoon performer who has created an imaginative and popular body of compositions for the instrument. Although the bassoon is not typically associated with solo performance, Davis has established an international reputation as a solo...
Albert Christ-Janer Award 2007 Levon Ambartsumian, Professor of Music, fills four distinct but complementary roles at UGA: violin performer; conductor of the ARCO Chamber Orchestra — an ensemble in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music; dedicated teacher; and highly prolific recording artist. Ambartsumian brings international distinction to...
Albert Christ-Janer Award 2009 Hugh Ruppersburg, professor of English and senior associate dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is a scholar of American literature, especially of the American South. The author of three books on major writers— two on William Faulkner and one on...
Albert Christ-Janer Award 2010 James C. Cobb, B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor in the History of the American South, is widely recognized as one of the foremost scholars of Southern history and culture—and among the first to write broadly about the South in a global context. Cobb...
Albert Christ-Janer Award 2011 Roger Vogel, professor of music, has published more than 105 original compositions. His wide-ranging list of works includes a one-act chamber opera, three concertos, and more than 30 sonatas, suites and other substantial works for larger chamber ensembles as well as solo and...
Albert Christ-Janer Award 2012 William Kretzschmar, Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities, is recognized as an international leader in each of his four primary areas of research: American English studies, English lexicography, corpus linguistics, and language variation studies. He is editor-in-chief of the Linguistic Atlas Project...