Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievements
The Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievements are made possible through the generosity of the late Dolly Hand LL.B.'49, Hon '08. longtime trustee and alumna, and her late husband Homer Hand. Through their support of excellence in higher education, we are honored to recognize outstanding faculty.
Over the years, we have had the privilege to bestow the Hand Awards to deserving faculty, beginning as simply the Hand Award to now recognizing excellence in these categories:
Research, Creative, and Professional Activity
The Hand Award for Research, Creative, and Professional Activity emphasizes the quality of the research or creative activity, the significance of the accomplishment within the faculty member's field, and its contribution to the intellectual vibrancy and vitality of our campus. This Hand Award recognizes that excellence is to be found in innovative as well as traditional forms of scholarship; in work that contributes to the pedagogical discussion in a discipline or across disciplines as well as work that makes original contributions to knowledge; in work that redefines disciplinary knowledge as well as in work that reinforces it; and in major community outreach projects that demonstrate substantive disciplinary or interdisciplinary knowledge.
Community Impact
The Hand Award for Community Impact celebrates the achievements of faculty serving the needs of the community, both the Stetson community and the community beyond the campus. An institution depends on its faculty to provide guidance to its students, expertise to its governance structure, leadership in its planning processes, and connections to the larger community. These kinds of service—to our academic community, to our surrounding communities and state, to our disciplines, to the world—are among our most important contributions to knowledge and our most impressive statements of our values commitments.
2023-2024 Call for Nominations
Academic Awards and Recognition Ceremony
Recent Award Recipients
2023-2024
TBA
2022-2023
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity
Khushbu Mishra, Assistant Professor of Economics
2021-2022
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity
Daniil Zavlunov, Associate Professor of Music History
Hand Award for Excellence in Faculty Research
Kirsten Davis, Professor of Law
Hand Award for Community Impact
Asal Mohammadi Johnson, Associate Professor of Public Health
2020-2021
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity
Lynn Kee, Assistant Professor of Biology
Hand Award for Excellence in Faculty Research
Andrew Appleby, Associate Professor of Law
Hand Award for Community Impact
Sarah Cramer, Visiting Assistant Professor in Sustainable Food Systems
2019-2020
No awards were presented in either category
2018-2019
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity
Isabel Botero, Assistant Professor of Family Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Hand Award for Excellence in Faculty Research
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Professor of Law
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity
Ana Eire, Professor of World Languages and Cultures
2017-2018
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity
Terry Farrell, Professor of Biology
Hand Award for Excellence in Faculty Research
Cynthia Hawkins, Professor of Law
Hand Award for Community Impact
Pamela Cappas-Toro, Assistant Professor of World Languages and Cultures
Past Award Recipients
» Please note recipient titles are listed based on the date of the award and may not reflect current titles.