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WGRI's Distinguished Faculty
The purpose
of the Women and Gender Research Institute Distinguished Professor Award is
to recognize the outstanding leadership of women professors in their
scholarly or creative work or to recognize the leadership of men or women
professors who conduct research on gender issues. Professors serve as role
models for all faculties. The awardee must present
a public lecture for specialists on his or her work and its implications for
the future. This $500 award is granted once every three years.
To nominate
an individual, please email the following to the WGRI director:
1.
nominee’s
vita
2.
a letter
of recommendation from the nominator
1993:
Anne Anderson
Dr. Anne Anderson, professor of Biology was honored as WGRI's first Distinguished Professor in 1992-93. Dr. Anderson’s research involves the
molecular basis of plant-microbe interactions. She is interested in the recognition events
between plants and fungal or bacterial challenges, responses of organisms to
oxidative stress, and
survival of organisms in soil.
1996: Dr. Anne Butler
Anne M. Butler is a social and cultural historian of the American West who
specializes in the of women, especially in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century. She has and lectured on the subjects of western
prostitutes and women criminals, but she is also for her research concerning
Roman Catholic nuns in the West. Since her arrival at Utah University
in 1989, Dr. Anne M. Butler has been an excellent role model to students and
in the areas of research, teaching, and service. A key figure in her field,
Anne Butler has the good sense to study topics that captivate a wide audience
and the intelligence to address topics in interesting and unexpected ways.
2000: Dr. Ann M. B. Austin
Ann M. B. Austin, administrator at Utah State
University in the College of Family Life, was awarded the Women and
Gender Research Institute Distinguished Professor Award in 2000. The award is
presented by the institution once every three years.
Austin
said the honor is very precious to her because of the people giving the
award. "There are some wonderful and outstanding women on the
committee," she said. "It has been humbling and powerful for me to
realize I was the one selected for the award," said Austin.
Austin is
the associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Family Life.
Austin serves
as a mentor and role model for women not only at Utah State
University but also at
the community, state, national and international levels, according to
nomination materials. Austin
was instrumental in forming the Cache Chapter of the National Association for
the Education of Young Children, an organization that has brought together
students, faculty and community members with a shared interest in young
children. For more than 15 years this organization has sponsored community
activities, including the Week of the Young Child, a series of activities
that enhance awareness and provide advocacy for young children and their
families.
Austin
helped establish several new programs in the Family and Human Development
Department's child development laboratory. These programs provide students
with comprehensive, practical experience with childhood issues.
Additionally Austin's
research has applied focus on issues critical to women, including child care.
She developed a child care study that established a program for young
children at Lincoln Elementary in Hyrum, a service of benefiting families
whose work schedules made it difficult to find care providers. This project
evolved into the Boys and Girls Club of Cache Valley with programs in seven
elementary schools. In 1992, she promoted the passage of legislation that
created Utah's
first state level office of child care.
Austin was
an invited guest of ministries of education in India, Cuba, and Costa Rica
and a member of the U.S.
delegation to the celebration of the 75th anniversary of women's suffrage in Iceland.
Through Austin's
persistent efforts to obtain funding, she has developed an ongoing project to
benefit the Guarani tribe in Paraguay
as well as to contribute to the knowledge base regarding child development
and early intervention. Austin
said she wants to remind other women professors not to forget to turn around
and encourage the younger women at the university and in their communities.
2003: Dr. Pamela J. Riley
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Professor Pamela J. Riley, USU professor of Sociology, was selected as the
2002-2003 Women and Gender Research Institute’s Distinguished
Professor. Lecture Title: “‘Putting the Last First;’ Gender
and International Development”
Dr. Riley has made exceptional contributions to USU and to her profession
in the areas of teaching, research, and service during her 25-plus-year
career at Utah State University.
Professor Riley has earned a national and international reputation as an
expert in issues regarding women and international development. She
consistently brings her research experiences in developing countries such as Thailand, Lesotho, and Malawi, to
the classroom.
Dr. Riley has established a solid research program and has a consistent
publication records in refereed, scholarly journals. Many of her articles are
co-authored with her graduate students. Her research focuses on women in
international development and, domestically, on gender, work, and family. Dr.
Riley recently worked in Thailand
as a consulting expert on the Asian Development Bank/Thailand Department of
Skill Development project. She served as a Women in International Development
consultant to bring gender sensitivity training to the agency personnel who
engaged in technology transfer.
In addition, Dr. Riley has engaged in field work in Lesotho and Malawi
bringing direct benefits to African people, particularly women. Her
international work has enhanced the reputation of Utah State
University. Her funded
research work in gender, work, and family has resulted in numerous
publications and outreach efforts that take the findings of scholarly work to
families in the community. She has mentored a new generation of sociologists
who work with her as research assistants. Her latest research efforts are
directed toward targeting Latino families in Cache Valley
to learn more about their experiences with work, family, and community.
Dr. Riley has a reputation as an engaging, rigorous, and fair teacher.
Because of her extensive work overseas, her teaching is global in scope,
effectively enlarging the intellectual horizons of USU students. Her graduate
students have gone on to occupy important academic and government agency
positions. Her work with undergraduate students is equally impressive. She is
co-director of the Law & Society Area Studies Program sand helped
establish the Asian Studies Program at USU.
Dr. Riley was cofounder of the Women & Gender Research Institute and
served as its codirector. She served as Director of
the Women’s Studies Program at USU, secured permanent funding for the
program, and expanded its on-campus and national connections. She served as
campus coordinator for the USAID’s Consortium
for International Development / Women in Development. Dr. Riley is clearly a
leader and she is sought after in leadership positions precisely because she
does her work well and is able to motivate others because of her effective
interpersonal skills. Pam Riley is a personable individual. She helps people
feel included and works to build communities in projects she undertakes.
2006: WGRI Distinguished Professor
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Eddy Berry (more formally, E.
Helen Berry), Professor of Sociology, has been at Utah State
University since 1984.
She came to USU from a NICHD Post-doctoral fellowship at the University of
Michigan Population Studies Center after receiving her Ph.D. in sociology
with a minor in geography at The Ohio State University. Dr. Berry's
specialty areas are in demography and human ecology, with specific focus on
rural population change. Her current
research focuses on Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks and non-Hispanic whites as
they move into and out of metropolitan and non-metropolitan places. She is particularly interested in the ways
that the characteristics of the rural and urban places interact with the
characteristics of migrants.
Dr. Berry currently serves as the assistant
department head in Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology and has chaired
the USU Institutional Review Board for Human Participants in research, the
Athletic Council, and co-directed WGRI.
She is the 2003 Rural
Sociological Society Recipient of the Award
for Excellence in Instruction and 1998
USU Robin's Award Faculty Advisor of the Year. She teaches courses in
demography, social statistics, and occasionally urban sociology or methods,
at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
One of her proudest accomplishments
at USU occurred in 1984. As a brand
new assistant professor, she joined with a group of women, some of whom were
interested in gender studies, others of whom were women researchers interested
in connecting with other women researchers.
These women first gathered in Eddy’s living room and became the
initial members of WGRI, founding the group in order to promote research
about gender and to promote research and creative accomplishments by
women.
The nomination letter describing Dr. Berry’s qualifications states:
Dr.
Berry has
established a solid research program with colleagues in her department and at
other universities and has an outstanding publication record in refereed,
scholarly journals as well as innumerable research presentations at
professional meetings or other professional venues. Dr. Berry has been the recipient of many
grants and awards, both external and internal. She has twice been a Top Prof for Mortar
Board and twice the SSWA Advisor of the Year.
Over the years, Dr. Berry’s
research has been funded by a wide variety of agencies including the US
Department of Agriculture, the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, WGRI,
and the College
of HASS.
Dr.
Berry’s longstanding service with the
IRB at Utah State has developed into national
prominence. She has represented the
Social Sciences on national IRB panels on more than one occasion. In 2002 Dr. Berry wrote the USU Handbook for
Protection for Human Subjects (with True Rubal)
and it was later incorporated into the NIH Recommendations on Best
Practices. Despite the fact that
she is no longer a member of IRB at USU, Dr. Berry
is still the go-to guy when Utah
State needs effective
representation at the national level.
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