Honors & Awards

Danay Downing, a master’s student in anthropology and a graduate certificate student in cognitive science, used her Love of Learning fellowship from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi to conduct primate research this summer.

Steven Rogelberg has been appointed the inaugural University Professor of UNC Charlotte. The title recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement in a professional field as well as demonstrated ability to excel at interdisciplinary research, teaching and service.

Kent Brintnall, associate professor of religious studies, is the 2013 recipient of the Bonnie E. Cone Early-Career Professorship for Teaching. His selection was announced during the annual University Convocation on Tuesday, Aug. 20.

Karen L. Cox, a UNC Charlotte history professor, received the 2013 Allen G. Noble Award for her book Destination Dixie: Tourism & Southern History. The Pioneer America Society offers the prize for the best edited book on material culture in North America. Destination Dixie includes thirteen essays that examine the way various historic sites throughout […]

In recognition of its innovative approach and focus on community research and action, UNC Charlotte’s community psychology training program has received the Outstanding Program Award from an international psychological association. The UNC Charlotte program earned the recognition this summer in Miami at the biennial conference of the Society for Community Research and Action – the […]

Christopher Cameron, assistant professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at UNC Charlotte, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship with the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Michael S. Doyle, a professor of Spanish and translation studies at UNC Charlotte, will join the United States Air Force Academy faculty in Colorado Springs, Colo. as a Distinguished Visiting Professor from July 1, 2013 through May 28, 2014.

Catherine Fuentes, a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at UNC Charlotte, has received the Paul Farmer Global Citizenship Award, awarded by the Center for a Public Anthropology.

Karen L. Cox, a professor of history at UNC Charlotte, has been named a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians…

The Department of Communication Studies in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has received the 18th annual Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, granted annually to an academic department, office, or program in recognition of its maintaining high-quality teaching.