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John H. D’Arms Faculty Awards for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities
All of the nominations for faculty awards administered by Rackham are submitted directly through our website. This may require some changes in the way nominators put together the dossiers. Please read through this site before you begin the nomination process.
These awards were created in honor of John H. D'Arms, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School (1985-1995), to recognize scholars and/or creative artists of extraordinary depth and breadth who have provided their students with the quality of intellectual support that only remarkable learning, coupled with boundless generosity of spirit, can bestow. Nominees for this award must be tenured faculty members in the humanities and have directed a substantial number of dissertations over the past several years. Humanities departments and programs are encouraged to nominate faculty at the rank of associate professor and professor and may, therefore, submit more than one nomination per competition.
The John H. D'Arms Graduate Student Awards for Summer Research Travel in the Humanities are given to students in the graduate programs of the faculty who receive the D'Arms Awards.
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General Information
Eligibility
Nominees must be tenured faculty members in the humanities and have directed a substantial number of dissertations over the past several years. More than one nomination may be submitted per department or program. Departments and programs also are encouraged to nominate women, minorities and members of other groups historically underrepresented in their disciplines.
Selection Criteria
Nominees should be scholars and/or creative artists of exceptional intellectual breadth and depth who demonstrate extraordinary generosity of spirit in fostering the intellectual, creative, scholarly and professional growth of their doctoral students.
Number of Awards
A maximum of three awards of $5,000 each will be made to faculty. Note that an additional award of $5,000 will be given to the department/program of each faculty winner to support summer research and travel abroad by one or two graduate students. In cases where the award recipient holds appointments in two or more departments or programs, the summer travel award will be divided equally among them.
Source of Nominations
Nominations may be submitted by nominee's department/program chair, associate chair, or graduate chair.
Selection Process
Nominations will be reviewed in February 2010 by an interdisciplinary selection committee composed of distinguished senior faculty. Awardees will be selected by the Dean of the Graduate School, based upon recommendations of this committee. The names of the recipients will be announced shortly thereafter and the awards will be formally presented at a ceremony on April 2010.
Deadline and submission
The nomination deadline for 2010 John H. D'Arms Faculty Awards for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities is January 25, 2010, 12PM\noon EST.
For more information contact:
Homer C. Rose, Jr., Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Academic Programs
915 East Washington Street
1130 Rackham
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1070
Telephone: 764-4400
E-mail: faculty-awards@umich.edu
Guidelines for the Preparation of Nominations
The complete instructions for submitting a nomination for this award, and the FAQ for the general process of submitting nominations online, are available here as well as on the separate nomination website.
Listed below are the eight items that must be included in the dossier before the nomination can be submitted. You will be asked to either enter text into text boxes or online forms, or upload documents in Adobe PDF format.
Before you begin, please read the section about requesting and submitting letters of support below. These letters should not be sent to you but rather submitted directly by the letter writer electronically through a separate website.
A nomination dossier can be set up by a U-M faculty or staff member. Up to six others may be given access to the site by the person who opens the dossier on the website. After a nomination dossier is started the nominator(s) and assistant(s) may login to the faculty awards nomination system as many times as needed in order to complete the nomination.
Contact Information Form
Provide in the online form all the contact information requested for both the nominee and the nominator--not the administrative contact.
Letter of Nomination
You may submit your nomination letter by uploading the document in Adobe PDF format. Or, if you would prefer to use the text box, we recommend that you write your statement in a non-web format (such as a word processing or text editor program), save a copy for your personal records, and then copy and paste the final document into the space provided.
The nomination letter may be no longer than five pages (3,400 words) in length.
The letter of nomination should be prepared by the nominee's department/program chair, associate chair, or graduate chair. If the nomination is being submitted by a department or program other than the one in which the nominee has his/her major appointment, the head of that department should also sign the letter.
Committee members often find the following information helpful as they try to evaluate the mentoring skills of nominees.
- A summary of the nominee's academic and/or creative accomplishments in the context of his/her special contributions to graduate education in general and to the mentoring of doctoral students in particular.
- Awards and other honors received in recognition of teaching, advising and mentoring.
- An evaluation of the nominee's skills as a teacher and mentor of graduate students with examples of activity that support this assessment.
Letters of Support
Note: Do not have the letters of support sent to you. These letters must be submitted by the writers directly to the nomination dossier through a separate website. Writers will be asked to either enter text into an online form, or upload documents in Adobe PDF format.
When you contact the letter writer with your request, direct the him/her to https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/Faculty/support/ and provide the writer with the U-M ID of the nominee and name of the award. On this website the writers will find straightforward directions for submitting the letter of support for your nominee.
Once the letters have been sent into the website you will be able to read them in the nomination dossier and then select which letters you actually want to include when you submit the nomination. Only the letters you have selected will be seen by the review committee.
Nominations should include up to six letters in support of the nominee from current and/or former graduate students who have studied with the nominee (additional letters will not be considered). The writers should reflect the full diversity of students mentored by the nominee. These letters should detail the nature and extent of the nominee's mentorship. Anecdotal information, such as memorable experiences or occasions, will be especially welcome.
Each letter of support may be no longer than five pages (3,400 words) in length.
Complete and Current Curriculum Vitae
Include the nominee's c.v. by uploading the most recent version in Adobe PDF format. Note: while information about courses taught and dissertation service may be in the c.v., providing that same information by completing the forms below is necessary because it facilitates the review process.
Courses Form
Complete the online form by providing in the text boxes the following information for all courses, undergraduate and graduate, taught during the past eight terms: course number, course name, approximate number of students enrolled, term and year taught.
If your school/college represents course information in another format you will be able to describe this in a separate text box.
Doctoral Committee Service Form
Complete the online form by providing in the text box the following information for all doctoral committee service in the past ten years: name of student, student's department/program, year the degree was conferred or is expected, role served by the nominee, and placement information for the student, if available.
Teaching Evaluations
Please indicate the courses for which you would like us to request your nominee's evaluation reports from The Office of Evaluations and Examinations. That office will send the summary reports on student evaluations directly to us in a digital file. This file will then be uploaded to the dossier.
If your school/college uses another mode of evaluation please contact us to determine how your nominee's evaluations can be submitted.
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Past Recipients of John H. D’Arms Faculty Awards for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities
2009
- Samuel Epstein, Linguistics
- Peter A. Railton, Philosophy
2008
- Anne Hermann, English and Women’s Studies
- Lesley Rex, Educational Studies
2007
- Celest Brusati, History of Art, Women's Studies
- Donald Lopez, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist & Tibetan Studies
- Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Kathleen Gough Collegiate Professor of Anthropology
2006
- Valerie Traub, English Language and Literature, and Women's Studies
- Thomas Trautmann, History
2005
- Geoffrey Eley, History
- David Potter, Classical Studies
2004
- Michael Schoenfeldt, English Language & Literature
- Katherine M. Verdery, Eric R. Wolf Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Associate, Center for Russian and East European Studies
2003
- David William Cohen, Professor of History, Anthropology, and Social Sciences (Residential College), LS&A
- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Professor of History, Women's Studies, and American Culture, LS&A
- Roland John Wiley, Professor of Musicology, School of Music
2002
- Elizabeth S. Anderson, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, LS&A
- Patrice Speeter Beddor, Professor of Linguistics, LS&A
2001
- Richard W. Bailey, Professor of English Language and Literature, LS&A
- Joanne Leonard, Professor of Art, School of Art and Design; Professor of Women's Studies; Faculty Associate, Program in American Culture, LS&A
2000
- George J. Bornstein, The C.A. Patrides Professor of English; Professor of English Language and Literature, LS&A
- Sharon C. Herbert, Professor of Archaeology and Greek; Curator and Director, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, LS&A
- Domna C. Stanton, The Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor; Professor of Romance Languages and Women's Studies, LS&A
1999
- Kathleen M. Canning, Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of Women's Studies, LS&A
- Sonya O. Rose, Professor of Sociology; Professor of History; Professor of Women's Studies, LS&A
- Marlon B. Ross, Professor of English; Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, LS&A
1998
- Frances R. Aparicio, Arthur F. Thurneau Professor; Associate Professor of Spanish and American Culture, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, LS&A
- Ruth Behar, Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, Department of Anthropology, LS&A
- Stephen H. Sumida, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and American Culture, Department of English Language and Literature, LS&A
1997
- Anne Ruggles Gere, Professor of Education, School of Education; Professor of English, Department of English Language and Literature, LS&A
- Professor Cedomil Goic, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Professor of Spanish-American Literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, LS&A
- Patricia Simons, Associate Professor, History of Art and Women’s Studies, LS&A
1996
- Enoch Brater, Professor of English Language and Literature, LS&A; Professor of Theatre, School of Music
- L. Ross Chambers, Marvin Felheim Distinguished University Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, LS&A
- Andrew W. Mead, Associate Professor of Music Theory, School of Music
1995
- Judith O. Becker, Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, School of Music
- Luis O. Gomez, Charles O. Hucker Professor of Buddhist Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures; Adjunct Professor of Psychology, LS&A
- Ludwig Koenen, Herbert C. Youtie Distinguished University Professor of Papyrology, Department of Classical Studies, LS&A
Article Details
Article ID: 14
Created On: 26 Mar 2009 4:00 PM
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