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Leadership Board Faculty Fellows

The College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board Faculty Fellowships recognize the College’s most promising or most accomplished teacher/scholars, individuals early in their careers who demonstrate exceptional promise or faculty members who have brought distinction to the College and University throughout their careers.

The Leadership Board contributes $45,000 annually to support nine faculty fellows (three from the arts and humanities, three from the natural sciences and mathematics, and three from the social sciences). Three fellows are selected each year (one from each division) for a three-year term.

Nominations are solicited from A&S departments late in the fall semester and are due the following April; fellows are named in May. For more information, contact Kevin Reid, Senior Director of External Affairs, at krreid@ua.edu or (205) 348-7009.

2023-2026

  • Assistant Professor, Xabier Granja, Modern Languages and Classics
  • Associate Professor, Memorie Gosa, Communicative Disorders
  • Associate Professor, Wanyun Shao, Geography

2022-2025

  • Assistant Professor, Luvada Harrison, Theatre and Dance
  • Assistant Professor, Michal McKain, Biological Sciences
  • Associate Professor, Christopher Hale, Political Science

2021-2024

  • Assistant Professor Alexis Davis-Hazell, School of Music
  • Assistant Professor Nicholas Magliocca, Department of Geography
  • Professor Shan Zhao, Department of Mathematics
  • Professor Kari Frederickson, Department of History

2020-2023

  • Assistant Professor Kevin Chance, School of Music
  • Assistant Professor Adam Hauser, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Associate Professor Ariane Prohaska, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice

2019-2022

  • Associate Professor Cassander Smith, Department of English
  • Professor Carolyn Cassady, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Associate Professor George Hawley, Department of Political Science

2018-2021

  • Associate Professor Lucy Curzon, Department of Art and Art History
  • Associate Professor Philip Gable, Department of Psychology
  • Associate Professor Claudia Mewes, Department of Physics and Astronomy

2017-2020

  • Assistant Professor Diana Dolliver, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice
  • Assistant Professor Kim Genareau, Department of Geological Sciences
  • Assistant Professor Dominic Yeager, Department of Theatre & Dance

2016-2019

  • Associate Professor Shanlin Pan, Department of Chemistry
  • Professor Albert Pionke, Department of English
  • Associate Professor Eric Weisbard, Department of American Studies

2015-2018

  • Professor Torin Alter, Department of Philosophy
  • Associate Professor Justin Hart, Department of Geography
  • Assistant Professor Margaret Peacock, Department of History

2014-2017

  • Assistant Professor Angie Barber, Department of Communicative Disorders
  • Associate Professor Sarah Barry, Department of Theatre and Dance
  • Assistant Professor Samantha Hansen, Department of Geological Sciences

2013-2016

  • Professor Joel Brouwer, Department of English
  • Professor Adam Lankford, Department of Criminal Justice
  • Professor Juan Lopez-Bautista, Department of Biological Sciences

2012-2015

  • Professor Douglas Gibler, Department of Political Science
  • Professor Patrick LeClair, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Professor Richard Richards, Department of Philosophy

2011-2014

  • Professor Jim Knight, Department of Anthropology
  • Professor Norv Richards, Department of Philosophy
  • Professor Martyn Dixon, Department of Mathematics

2010-2013

  • Associate Professor Brian Evans, Department of Art and Art History
  • Associate Professor Stacy Morgan, Department of American Studies
  • Professor John Vincent, Department of Chemistry 

2009-2012

  • Associate Professor Seth Panitch, Department of Theatre and Dance
  • Associate Professor Fran Conners, Department of Psychology
  • Assistant Professor Fred Andrus, Department of Geological Sciences

2008-2011

  • Associate Professor Karl DeRouen, Department of Political Science
  • Assistant Professor Julie Olson, Department of Biological Sciences
  • Professor Carol Prickett, School of Music

2007-2010

  • Professor Mindy Nancarrow, Department of Art and Art History
  • Professor Tavan Trent, Department of Mathematics
  • Assistant Professor Lisa Dorr, Department of History

2006-2009

  • Associate Professor Catherine Roach, New College
  • Professor Bill Keel, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Professor Tom Fox, Department of Modern Languages and Classics

2005-2008

  • Associate Professor Guy Caldwell, Department of Biological Sciences
  • Professor William Dressler, Department of Anthropology
  • Professor Jim Otteson, Department of Philosophy

2004-2007

  • Professor Robin Behn, Department of English/Creative Writing
  • Professor Forrest Scogin, Department of Psychology
  • Associate Professor Luoheng Han, Department of Geography

2003-2006

  • Associate Professor Rebecca Allen, Department of Psychology
  • Assistant Professor Tony Rodriguez, Department of Geological Sciences
  • Associate Professor Tom Wolfe, School of Music

2002-2005

  • Professor Michael Martone, Department of English
  • Professor Jim Bindon, Department of Anthropology
  • Professor Robin Rogers, Department of Chemistry