Faculty
2019 – Stewart Waters
2017 – Lynn Hodge
2015 – David Cihak (tie)
2015 – Tara Moore (tie)
2013 – Susan Groenke (tie)
2013 – Kristin Rearden (tie)
2011 – Pattie Stinger-Barnes
2010 – Amy Broemmel
2007 – Amy Broemmel
2020 – Susan Groenke
2018 – Jo Ann Cady
2016 – Chonika Coleman-King (tie)
2016 – Kristin Rearden (tie)
2014 – Mari Beth Coleman
2013 – Blanche O’Bannon
2012 – Brenda Simmons Stephenson
2010 – Sherry Bell
2006 – Amy Broemmel
2019 – Anthony Pellegrino
2017- Stewart Waters
2016 – Yujeong Park
2015 – Yujeong Park
2013 – Kimberly Wolbers
2011 – David Cihak
2009 – David Cihak
2007 – Amos Hatch
2005 – Amos Hatch
2020 – Frances Harper
2018 – Mari Beth Coleman
2016 – Yujeong Park
2014 – Jud Laughter
2012 – Stergios Botzakis
2008 – Susan Groenke
2006 – Sherry Bell
2005 – Kristin Rearden
2021 – Tara Moore
2016 – Susan Groenke
2015 – Amos Hatch
2017 – Yujeong Park
2019 – Carol LaCava
2018 – Tara Moore
2012 – David Cihak
2010 – Patti Davis-Wiley
2022 – Jud Laughter
2021 – Zoi Traga-Philippakos
2014 – Sherry Bell
2013 – Amos Hatch
This award is given to a faculty member and graduate student for outstanding dissertation and dissertation supervision.
2020 – Kimberly Wolbers with student Leala Holcomb
2015 – Amy Broemmel with student Elizabeth Blanton
2006 – Colleen Gilrane
2020 – Zoi Traga-Philippakos
2016 – Jud Laughter
2014 – Anne McGill-Franzen
2010 – Susan Groenke
2009 – Colleen Gilrane
2008 – David Cihak
1998 – Susan Benner
In honor of Dean Bob Rider
2022 – Lynn Hodge
2021 – Jennifer Jordan
2021 – Joshua Rosenberg
2020 – Lynn Hodge
2019 – Sherry Bell
2016 – David Cihak
2021 – Frances Harper
2021 – Jeffrey Davis
2020 – Jud Laughter
2018 – Sherry Bell
2014 – David Cihak
2013 – Amy Broemmel
2012 – Sherry Bell
2010 – Amos Hatch
2007 – Amos Hatch
2011 – Patti Davis-Wiley
2010 – Kristin Rearden
2009 – Colleen Gilrane
2017 – Barbara Thayer-Bacon
2013 – Amos Hatch
2004 – Patti Davis-Wiley
1997 – Susan Benner
2002 – Teresa Hopkins
2017 – Chonika Coleman-King
2016 – Jud Laughter (Finalist)
2006 – Patti Davis-Wiley
Ashlee Anderson (Nominee)
2014 – Kimberly Wolbers
2013 – Anne McGill-Franzen
2012 – Richard Allington
1983 – Susan Benner
2022 – Kimberly Wolbers
2011 – Blanche O’Bannon
2019 – Amy Broemmel
2017 – Colleen Gilrane
2006 – Patti Davis-Wiley
2021 – Janine Al-Aseer
2015 – Mehmet Aydeniz
2011 – Sherry Bell
2012 – David Cihak (tie)
2012 – Blanche O’Bannon (tie)
2011 – Sherry Bell
2010 – Jeffrey Davis
Ashlee Anderson
Barbara Thayer-Bacon
(Current Faculty), in Alphabetical Order
Ashlee Anderson:
2016 – Reviewer’s Choice Award (with Andrea Arce-Trigatti) Paper Presentation, AESA
2016 – Reviewer’s Choice Award (with Barbara Thayer–Bacon, Kristen Godfrey, Janine Al-Aseer & Andrea Arce-Trigatti), Panel Presentation, AESA
Joy Bertling:
2022 – National Art Education Association’s Southeastern Region Higher Education Art Educator
2019 – Distinguished Alumna of the Year Award, Converse College
2017 – Higher Ed Art Educator of the Year, Tennessee Art Education Association
Amy Broemmel:
2010 – Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education (awarded to the Journal of Curriculum and Instruction editorial teams)
David Cihak:
2012 – Outstanding Alumnus Award, Georgia State University
2016 – Article of the Year Award, Council for Exceptional Children, Division of Technology & Media
April Haggard:
2017 – Stephen M. Ryan Teacher of the Year Award (ASL Teacher Association Conference)
Frances Harper:
2020 – National Technology Leadership Initiative (NTLI) Fellowship & Award, Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
2019 – Semifinalist, NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
2019-2020 – Fellow, Center for Inquiry and Equity in Mathematics Faculty Fellowship Program
2018-2019 – Fellow, Service, Teaching, and Research (STaR) Program, Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
Lynn Hodge:
2021 – STEM Advocate Award, Tennessee STEM Innovation Network
2004 – The Otto Bassler Outstanding Dissertation Award
Teresa Hopkins:
2005 – Second Place, Dissertation of the Year, Rural Education SIG of American Educational Research Association
2001 – Inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
2000 – Building and System-level Teacher of the Year, Tullahoma High School
1995 – Building-level Teacher of the Year, North Junior High School
1992 – Building-level Teacher of the Year, North Junior High School
Sherry Jankiewicz:
2019 – Key Holder Artist Residency, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
2018-19 – Emerging Artist Residency, Print Arts Northwest
2018 – Graduate Thesis Award, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2019 – Fulbright Scholarship Award, University of Maryland (for study abroad in Mexico City)
2008 – Advanced Painting Participant, Juried Study Abroad Programs (Italy), Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Jud Laughter:
2016 – Winner, If My College Were a Whisky, Oxford Today
2014 – Winner, Listen for the Rhyme, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, NPR
2012 – Outstanding Reviewer Award, Urban Education
Elizabeth MacTavish:
2017 – Dissertation of the Year Award, School Science and Math Association
Linda McClanahan:
2004 – Knox County Elementary Teacher of the Year
2004 – Sarah Moore Greene Teacher of the Year
2001 – National Science Foundation 2001 Presidential Award of Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching, Tennessee recipient
BEST Award recipient, Greater Knoxville Chamber of Commerce
Volunteer of the Year, Tennessee, Department of Human Services, Knox County
Yujeong Park:
2017 – Outstanding Paper Award, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference
2014 – Michael B. Salwen Scholars Program Award, American Educational Researchers Association
Kristin Rearden:
2012 – Teacher of the Year for Higher Education, Tennessee Science Teacher Association
Cate Smith:
2016, Research Article of the Year
Joshua Rosenberg
2022 – Early Career Award, Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning (TACTL) Special Interest Group (SIG), American Educational Research Association (AERA)
2022 – Best Poster Award, Fourteenth International Conference on Educational Data Mining
Zoi Traga-Philippakos:
2019 – Early Career Achievement Award, Literacy Research Association
2017 – Inaugural Alumni Award, University of Delaware
2011 – Richard Venezky Award for Creative Research in Literacy, Literacy Research Association
2006 – Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Staff
2022 – Heather Davis
2019 – Gina Guinn
2018 – Teresa Allmon
2016 – Charlotte Gossett
2015 – Karen Walker
2014 – Pat Flynn
2013 – Patti Fagg
2012 – Vicki Church
2020 – Teresa Allmon
2020 – Teresa Allmon, Katie Bookout and Heather Davis
2014 – Teresa Allmon