Faculty Awards
The faculty in the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts are recognized frequently for their excellence in teaching, research and public service.
Current award recipients include:
- Jami Grant:
In addition to recognizing Grant's record of publications and research across multiple disciplines, the recommending committee especially noted her dedicated work both to securing funding for the UB forensics lab and to establishing specifications and policies to make the lab operational and fully functional. Grant as been the first author on two articles published in important scholarly journals in the past three years and has been second author on two others. She brings recognition and luster to the University's reputation as well as to her students and to colleagues in her division.
- Patria Julnes:
Maryland Higher Education Commission Henry C. Welcome Fellowship
- Stuart Moulthrop:
Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts Advisory Council Distinguished Professor Award
- Jeffrey Sawyer:
Sawyer has been named the first recipient of the H. Mebane Turner Professorship in Early American and American Constitutional History. The professorship recognizes Sawyer as an expert in early American legal and constitutional history and awards $3,000 annually. The funds may be used to pay for research, research assistants, research-based travel or may serve as a salary enhancement.
Sawyer was selected as the recipient of the professorship by College of Liberal Arts Dean Larry Thomas based upon recommendations of senior faculty members in the college’s Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies.
As a professor in that division since 1986, Sawyer teaches in and directs the M.A. program in Legal and Ethical Studies and teaches in the undergraduate History and Jurisprudence programs. He holds Ph.D. and B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.F.A. degree from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Sawyer’s interests shifted from studio art to the history of art and ideas after he spent some time in Europe, and his fascination with the role of rhetoric in politics during the Vietnam War era and the Watergate scandal led eventually to his book, Printed Poison: Pamphlets, Faction Politics and the Public Sphere in Early Seventeenth-Century France (1990). His current interests focus on the intersecting histories of law, political culture and religion, especially in early Maryland, and his research explores long-term patterns of legal change in different areas of law and the gradual transformation of 17th-century styles of political conflict into the legal framework that helped lay the foundations for American constitutionalism.
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