Scholarly Works Awards
Since 2017, Saint Louis University's Scholarly Works Awards program has recognized faculty’s work within the past calendar year. These awards carry a cash prize. Any SLU faculty member may nominate their own or a colleague’s work for a Scholarly Works Award at the junior or senior faculty levels in the following categories: book (in English), book (in a language other than English), non-book scholarly publication, creative works, and public works. Nominations for this award typically open in November or December and conclude in mid-January.
2024 Scholarly Works Awards
Public Works
- Junior Faculty Winner: Michael Sinha, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., assistant professor, Health Law Studies: "CBD: The Gordian Knot of Pot," (with Grace M. Peterson), Health Affairs Forefront
- Senior Faculty Winner: Bradley Bailey, Ph.D., associate professor, Visual and Performing Arts: "Sound Moves: Where Music Meets Chess"
- Honorable Mention: Karla Scott, Ph.D., professor, Communication: A primer to talk about race & dialogue across identity divisions, Dialogue, Diversity & Dharma
Creative Works
- Senior Faculty Winner: Lucy Cashion, M.F.A., associate professor, Visual and Performing Arts: "The Brechtfast Club"
Non-Books (Articles)
- Honorable Mention: Cameron Anglum, Ph.D., assistant professor, Educational Studies: “Separate and Unequal in St. Louis? Strengths and Limitations of School-Level Funding Data Using a QuantCrit Framework,” Urban Education
- Honorable Mention: Joshua Guyer, Ph.D., assistant professor, Psychology – SLU-Madrid): “Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Junior Faculty Winner: Stephen Blake, Ph.D., assistant professor, Biology: "Megaherbivores modify forest structure and increase carbon stocks through multiple pathways," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Honorable Mention: Marvin Meyers, Ph.D., associate professor, Chemistry: "Structure Activity Relationship Studies of the Aryl Acetamide Triazolopyridazines Against Cryptosporidium Parvum Reveals Remarkable Role of Fluorine," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
- Senior Faculty Winner: Elizabeth Hasenmueller, Ph.D., associate professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: "Cave sediment sequesters anthropogenic microparticles (including microplastics and modified cellulose) in subsurface environments," Science of the Total Environment
- Honorable Mention: Suzanne Mahon, DNSc, professor emerita, Hematology and Oncology: "Laboratory Selection in Germline Genetic Testing: Laboratory Science Matters," Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
- Honorable Mention: Erica Salter, Ph.D., associate professor, Health Care Ethics, Pediatrics: "Pediatric decision making: Consensus Recommendations," Pediatrics
- Joint Junior and Senior Winners: Sofia Origanti, Ph.D., associate professor, Biology, and Edwin Antony, Ph.D., professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: "An Aurora B-RPA signaling axis secures chromosome segregation fidelity," Nature Communications
Books
- Junior Faculty Winner: Fabien Montcher, Ph.D., assistant professor, History: Mercenaries of Knowledge: Vicente Nogueira, the Republic of Letters, and the Making of Late Renaissance Politics, Cambridge University Press
- Senior Faculty Winner: Amy Wright, Ph.D., associate professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now, Vanderbilt University Press
- Senior Faculty Winner: Brian Yothers, Ph.D., professor, English: Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now, Camden House/Boydell & Brewer
Previous Winners
2023 Scholarly Works Awards
Public Works
- Junior Faculty Winner: Whitney Linsenmeyer, Ph.D., assistant professor, Nutrition and Dietetics: "Advancing Inclusion of Transgender and Gender Diverse Identities in Clinical Education: A Toolkit for Clinical Educators," Health Promotion Practice
- Senior Faculty Winner: Pauline Lee, Ph.D., associate professor, Theological Studies, and Helen de Cruz, Ph.D., professor, Philosophy: "How to be useless," Psyche Magazine
Creative Works
- Senior Faculty Winner: Amber Johnson, Ph.D., professor, Communication: "Transfuturism"
Non-Books (Articles)
- Senior Faculty Winner: Dana Baum, Ph.D., associate professor, Chemistry: "An RNA aptamer that shifts the reduction potential of metabolic cofactors," Nature Chemical Biology
- Honorable Mention: Annie Garner, Ph.D., associate professor, Psychology: "Trial of training to reduce driver inattention in teens with ADHD," New England Journal of Medicine
- Junior Faculty Winner: Jamie Neely, Ph.D., assistant professor, Chemistry: "Carbene-Like Reactivity in an Iron Azametallacyclobutene Complex: Insights from Electronic Structure," Inorganic Chemistry
- Honorable Mention: Sean Massa, M.D., assistant professor, Otolaryngology: "Quantifying Total and Out-of-Pocket Costs Associated With Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship," JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Book (in a language other than English)
- Winner: Angeles Encinar, Ph.D., professor, Spanish, SLU Madrid: Las cuatro esquinas, Ediciones Cátedra
Books
- Junior Faculty Winner: Emily Dumler-Winckler, Ph.D., assistant professor, Theological Studies: Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent, Oxford University Press
- Honorable Mention: Afonso Seixas-Nunes, S.J., assistant professor, School of Law: The Legality and Accountability of Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Humanitarian Law Perspective, Cambridge University Press
- Senior Faculty Winner: Amanda Izzo, Ph.D., associate professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Benjamin Looker, Ph.D., associate professor, American Studies: Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s, University of Missouri Press
2022 Scholarly Works Awards
Public/Creative Works
- Junior Faculty Winner: Ted Mathys, M.F.A., assistant professor, English: Gold Cure, Coffee House Press
- Honorable Mention: Tarrell Campbell
- Honorable Mention: Ilene Berman
- Senior Faculty Winner: Ruqaiijah Yearby, J.D., M.P.H., professor, School of Law: "Protecting Workers that Provide Essential Services," in the comprehensive report, Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19, Public Health Law Watch
- Honorable Mention: Laura Tedesco
- Honorable Mention: Nancy Bell
- Honorable Mention: Scott Berman & Chad Flanders
Non-Books (Articles)
- Junior Faculty Winner: Cara Wallace, Ph.D., assistant professor, School of Social Work: "Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for Palliative Care Providers," Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
- Honorable Mention: Ana Santos Rutschman
- Senior Faculty Winner: Daniela Salvemini, Ph.D., professor, Pharmacological and Physiological Science: "Adenosine A3 agonists reverse neuropathic pain via T cell–mediated production of IL-10," Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Honorable Mention: Zhenguo Lin
Books
- Faculty Winner: Joya Uraizee, Ph.D., professor, English: Writing that Breaks Stones: African Child Soldier Narratives, Michigan State University Press.
- Faculty Winner: Jack Renard, Ph.D., professor, Theological Studies: Crossing Confessional Boundaries: Exemplary Lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions, University of California Press