Henry Russel Lectureship
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.
Considered one of the University’s highest honors for a senior member of its active faculty, the Henry Russel Lectureship is awarded annually in recognition of a scholar’s exceptional achievements in research, scholarship and/or creative endeavors, and an outstanding record of teaching, mentoring, and service. Active members of the faculty in any discipline who hold the rank of professor may be nominated for the Lectureship.
- General Information
- Guidelines for the Preparation of Nominations
- Recipients of the Henry Russel Lectureship
General Information
Eligibility
Senior faculty with the rank of professor may be nominated for the Henry Russel Lectureship. Nominees must be active members of the faculty both at the time of nomination and at the time of delivering the Russel Lecture. Departments nominating faculty who are close to retirement may wish to consider Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards as an alternative way of seeking recognition for the faculty member’s achievements and contributions. Departments and programs are encouraged to nominate women, minorities, and members of other groups historically underrepresented in their disciplines.
Selection Criteria
Considered one of the University’s highest honors for a senior member of its active faculty, the Henry Russel Lectureship is awarded annually in recognition of exceptional achievements in research, scholarship and creative endeavors, and outstanding records in teaching, mentoring and service.
Number of Awards
One award of $2,000 will be made annually. In addition, the recipient is expected to deliver the Henry Russel Lecture.
Source of Nominations
Nominations may originate from deans, directors and department/program heads, and from executive, promotion or award committees. Nominations by individual members of the faculty especially are encouraged. All nominations should be coordinated through the appropriate academic unit (e.g., dean’s, departmental or program office).
Selection Process
Nominations are reviewed by a selection committee comprised of distinguished senior faculty from a range of schools and colleges. Awardees are selected by the Dean of Rackham Graduate School based upon the recommendations of this committee. The committee will meet in April 2012 and the results of the competition announced shortly thereafter. The formal presentation of the award will take place when the recipient of the Lectureship delivers his/her Henry Russel Lecture in March 2012.
Deadline and Submission
The nomination deadline for 2012 Henry Russel Lectureship is March 26, 2012, 12PM/noon EDT.
For more information contact:
Pat McCune, Ph.D.
Senior Program Manager
915 East Washington Street
1130 Rackham
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1070
Telephone: 936-1647
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 particular focus of the Henry Russel Lectureship is on outstanding achievements in research (broadly construed to include scholarship and/or creative endeavors in all disciplines of the University), in addition to teaching, mentoring, and service.
The letter of nomination should be prepared by the nominee’s department/program chair or designate, or by a senior member of the faculty who knows the nominee’s work well. 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.
Remember that the committee members represent a range of disciplines and may not be familiar with your nominee’s field. Committee members often find the following information helpful as they try to evaluate nominees from very different disciplines:
- A description of the nominee’s major scholarly and/or creative achievements throughout his/her career and an indication of their overall significance to the discipline.
- A comprehensive assessment of the nominee’s scholarly and/or creative ability and professional reputation, including a sense of how the nominee might rank nationally and, where appropriate, internationally among leaders in the discipline.
- Evidence of the nominee’s contributions in the areas of teaching, mentoring and service.
- Evidence of wider recognition by professional societies, national academies, and the like.
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 eight letters in support of the nominee (additional letters will not be considered). These letters may come from faculty members within the nominee’s department or program or from elsewhere in the University; from faculty at other institutions in the U.S. or abroad; and from former students of the nominee.
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 (optional)
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.
Recipients of the Henry Russel Lectureship
2012
- Rebecca J. Scott, History/Law
2011
- Richard Janko, Classical Studies
2010
- Richard Nisbett, Psychology
2009
- Lennard Fisk, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
2008
- Kent V. Flannery, Anthropology
2007
- Kensall Wise, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2006
- Huda Akil, Psychiatry
2005
- William Fulton, Mathematics
2004
- Maris Vinovskis, History/Public Policy
2003
- Rowena G. Matthews, Biological Chemistry/Biophysics
2002
- Gerard Mourou, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
2001
- Sid Gilman, Neurology
2000
- Abigail Stewart, Psychology/Women’s Studies
1999
- Jack E. Dixon, Biological Chemistry
1998
- David E. Kuhl, Internal Medicine/Radiology
1997
- William E. Bolcom, Music Composition
1996
- Ludwig Koenen, Papyrology/Classical Studies
1995
- Vincent Massey, Biological Chemistry
1994
- Elizabeth M. Douvan, Psychology/Women’s Studies
1993
- John H. Holland, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science/Psychology
1992
- Robert Axelrod, Political Science/Public Policy
1991
- Minor J. Coon, Biological Chemistry
1990
- Frederick W. Gehring, Mathematics
1989
- Richard D. Alexander, Evolutionary Biology
1988
- Bernard W. Agranoff, Neurosciences/Biological Chemistry
1987
- Philip E. Converse, Sociology/Political Science
1986
- Thomas M. Donahue, Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Science
1985
- Sidney Fine, History
1984
- Leslie R. Bassett, Music Composition
1983
- Stefan S. Fajans, Internal Medicine
1982
- Emmett R. Leith, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
1981
- Leslie Kish, Sociology/Institute for Social Research
1980
- Halvor N. Christensen, Biological Chemistry
1979
- Francis A. Allen, Law
1978
- Arthur W. Burks, Philosophy/Computer & Communication Sciences
1977
- Charles Gibson, History
1976
- Lamberto Cesari, Mathematics
1975
- George Kish, Geography
1974
- Chia-Sun Yih, Mechanical Engineering
1973
- George E. Mendenhall, Near Eastern Studies
1972
- James B. Griffin, Anthropology
1971
- Paul G. Kauper, Law
1970
- John Arthos, English Language & Literature
1969
- Arnold M. Kuethe, Aerospace Engineering
1968
- Horace R. Crane, Physics
1967
- Maurice H. Seevers, Pharmacology
1966
- James V. Neel, Human Genetics
1965
- Harold E. Wethey, History of Art
1964
- William Randolph Taylor, Botany
1963
- Irving A. Leonard, History
1962
- Herbert C. Youtie, Classical Studies
1961
- Jerome W. Conn, Medicine
1960
- Frederick F. Blicke, Chemistry
1959
- Raymond L. Wilder, Mathematics
1958
- Verner W. Crane, History
1957
- Louis I. Bredvold, English Language & Literature
1956
- George E. Uhlenbeck, Physics
1955
- George Granger Brown, Engineering
1954
- Thomas Francis, Jr., Epidemiology
1953
- Robert Gesell, Physiology
1952
- David M. Dennison, Physics
1951
- Aaron Franklin Shull, Zoology
1950
- Arthur Edward R. Boak, History
1949
- Howard Bishop Lewis, Biological Chemistry
1948
- Hobart Hurd Willard, Chemistry
1947
- DeWitt Henry Parker, Philosophy
1946
- Elizabeth C. Crosby, Anatomy
1945
- Edward Henry Kraus, Mineralogy
1944
- John Alexander, Surgery
1943
- Isaiah Leo Sharfman, Economics
1942
- William H. Worrell, Near Eastern Studies
1941
- Harrison M. Randall, Physics
1940
- Frank Norman Wilson, Medicine
1939
- Campbell Bonner, Greek
1938
- Heber Doust Curtis, Astronomy
1937
- Charles Wallace Edmunds, Materia Medica
1936
- John Garrett Winter, Latin
1935
- Gotthelf Carl Huber, Anatomy
1934
- Ermine Cowles Case, Geology
1933
- Walter B. Pillsbury, Psychology
1932
- Jesse Siddall Reeves, Political Science
1931
- William Herbert Hobbs, Geology
1930
- Claude H. Van Tyne, History
1929
- Alfred Scott Warthin, Pathology
1928
- Henry Arthur Sanders, Latin
1927
- Frederick George Novy, Bacteriology
1926
- Moses Gomberg, Chemistry