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Faculty of the Year Award Winners

Each year the Alumni Association recognizes one distinguished faculty member who exemplifies a commitment to scholarship, teaching, and service. Nominations are encouraged from students, alumni, and the campus community.

2007	Roger Wilkins, LHD '04
	Roger Wilkins, a Robinson Professor of History and American Culture, came to Mason with broad experience in public affairs. During the Johnson administration, Wilkins served as an assistant attorney general. In a distinguished journalism career, he has written for both the New York Times and the Washington Post, and he was associate editor of the Washington Star. While on the editorial page staff of the Washington Post, he shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for Watergate coverage with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, and Herb Block (Herblock). His highly acclaimed autobiography, A Man's Life (1982), was reprinted in 1991, and he was co-editor with Fred Harris of Quiet Riots in 1988. His book Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism, published in 2001, won the 2002 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Book Award for Adult Nonfiction. His public service activities include past chair of the Board of Trustees of the Africa-America Institute and membership on the board of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is publisher of NAACP's journal Crisis and has served on the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia and on the District of Columbia Board of Education. He is also a past chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Wilkins holds a law degree from the University of Michigan.
2006	Rick Davis, DFA
	Rick Davis, DFA, is professor of theater, associate dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and artistic director of the Center for the Arts, including the Theater of the First Amendment. In 1997, he received the university's Teaching Excellence Award. His teaching is described as supporting and encouraging. He inspires students to do their very best and, as one student stated, "His impact is immediately noticeable on our growing thought processes as arts professionals." Before coming to Mason in 1991, he was dramaturg and associate artistic director at Baltimore's Center Stage and had taught at Washington College, Johns Hopkins University, and Goucher College. A member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Davis has directed in professional theater and opera across the country and is an active translator and essayist. His translations of Ibsen (with Brian Johnston) have performed in leading regional theaters such as Berkeley Rep, Center Stage, Alliance Theatre, and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and his translations of Calderon de la Barca have resulted in both publication and production. He received his BA in theater and dramatics summa cum laude from Lawrence University in 1980 and his MFA in 1983 and DFA in 2003 in dramaturgy, dramatic literature, and criticism from Yale School of Drama.
2005	Cynthia M. Lont Professor of Communication
2004	James B. Young, PhD Education '03 Instructor, Reference & Instructional Service Librarian
2003	Doris A. Bitler Associate Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs
2002	Lloyd E. Duck Associate Professor of Education
2001	Don E. Kash John T. Hazel, Sr. and Ruth D. Hazel Professor of Public Policy
2000	Stuart S. Malawer Distinguished Service Professor of Law and International Trade
1999	Karen Oates Professor of Interdisciplinary and Integrative Studies
1998	Toni-Michelle Travis Associate Professor of Public & International Affairs
1997	Anthony Maiello Professor of Music
1996	Robert Hawkes Assistant Professor of History and Art History
1995	Kenneth A. Kovach Professor of Management
1994	Roberta M. Conti College of Health and Human Services
1993	Bruce B. Manchester Professor of Communication
1992	Kevin Avruch Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology
1991	Henry J. Bindel, Jr. Professor of Education
1990	Mary C. Silva Professor of Nursing
1989	Sheryl A. Friedley Professor of Communication
1988	Peter Klappert Professor of English
1987	Brack Brown Professor of Public and International Affairs
	Lloyd de Boer Dean, School of Business Administration
1986	Hale N. Tongren Professor of Marketing
1985	Walter E. Williams Professor of Economics
1984	Warren D. Decker Professor of Communication
1983	Michael R. Kelley Professor of Telecommunications
1982	Carol J. Sears Associate Professor of Education
1981	Kenneth A. Kovach Professor of Management
1980	Kitty P. Smith Associate Professor of Nursing and Health Science
1979	Michael G. Emsley Professor of Biology
	Bruce B. Manchester Professor of Communication
1978	John A. Oppelt Mathematics