Recipients of the William David Blunk Memorial Professorship

2023-24

Amy Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts

2022-23

Dawna Ballard, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communications 

2021-22

Minette Drumwright, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication

2020-21
Lee Ann Kahlor, Ph.D., Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication

2019-20
Calvin Lin, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Computer Science

2018-19
Lori Holleran Steiker, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Undergraduate Studies, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, Dell Medical School

2017-18
Courtney T. Byrd, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

2016-17
Michael Lauderdale, Ph.D., Clara Pope Willoughby Centennial Professor in Criminal Justice, School of Social Work

2015-16
Richard L. Corsi, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

2014-15
Mark E. Bernstein, EDD., Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

2013-14
Alan K. Cline, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Computer Science

2012-13
Greg O. Sitz, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Physics

2011-12
Glenn Lightsey, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

2010-11
Andrew Dell’Antonio, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Music

2009-10
Kirsten L. Belgum, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies

2008-09
Peter H. Stone, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences

2007-08
Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, Ph.D., Trice Professor in Plan II, Department of French and Italian

2006-07
Judith G. Coffin, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Department of History

2005-06
Robert G. Moser, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Government

2004-05
Deborah K. Morrison, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Advertising

2003-04
Michael D. Engelhardt, Ph.D., Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professor in Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

2002-03
Mark L. Knapp, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Communication Studies

2001-02
Kathryn Wambach, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Social Work (deceased)

2000-01
Desmond F. Lawler, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

1999-00
David Laude, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

1998-99
Martha F. Hilley, MA, Professor, School of Music

1997-98
Larry Carver, Ph.D., Professor, Department of English

1996-97
Ned H. Burns, Ph.D., Zarrow Centennial Professor in Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

1995-96
Charles Ramiréz Berg, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film

1994-95
Philip S. Schmidt, Ph.D., Donald J. Douglass Centennial Professor in Engineering, J. Mike Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering

1993-94
Lawrence D. Abraham, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education

1992-93
S. Dale McLemore, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Sociology

1991-92
Rosalie Ambrosino, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Social Work

1990-91
Lawrence W. Speck, MARCH, Roland Gommel Roessner Centennial Professor in Architecture, School of Architecture

1989-90
Wallace Fowler, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

1988-89
James Duban, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of English

1987-88
John A. Daly, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Speech Communication

1986-87
Melvin E. L. Oakes, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physics

1985-86
Jane N. Lippmann, Ph.D., Professor, Department of French and Italian

1984-85
Raymond E. Davis, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemistry

1983-84
Frank N. Bash, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Astronomy

1982-83
Charles T. Clark, Ph.D., Professor, Department of General Business

1981-82
Jeanne M. Lagowski, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Zoology

1980-81
William J. Sheffield, Ph.D., Professor, School of Pharmacy

1979-80
Eugene W. Nelson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of General Business

1978-79
James W. Vick, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics