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UNIVERSITY HONORS LLSS PROFESSORS BRADLEY, VANHOY AND KEITH
UT’s outstanding advisers, researchers and teachers were recognized at the Academic
Honors Ceremony held April 22nd. Members of the College of Languages, Literature and
Social Sciences were selected in each of these prestigious categories.
Professor Jane Bradley, LLSS Department of English, was named Outstanding Faculty Researcher 2013. About
our outstanding researcher, Matt Wikander writes: “When Jane Bradley came to the
University of Toledo in 1990, she had just published her first collection of short
stories, Powerlines, named a notable book of the year by the New York Times Book Review.
Since then, she has published a novella, Living Doll, another collection of short
stories, Are We Lucky Yet?, a textbook for screenwriting, and the novel You Believers.
The reception of You Believers has been broadly enthusiastic: “a compelling crime
story and a credible picture of the intersection of rural poverty and the New South,”
declared Library Journal; “heartbreaking” and “haunting,” was the judgment of Publisher’s
Weekly; and Booklist celebrated Bradley’s “unending compassion and chilling assessment
of the kind of harm that people are able and willing to inflict on one another.” Translated
into both Slovak and French, the novel has gained world-wide attention. Bradley’s
honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and an Ohio Council of
Arts Individual Fellowship; locally her work with at-risk women in Aurora House was
recognized by the Arts Council of Greater Toledo.”
Dr. Jerry VanHoy, Associate Professor in the LLSS Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director
of the Master of Liberal Studies Program, received the Outstanding Teacher Award for
2012-2013. Dr. VanHoy was also named one of the Shining Stars for Student Centeredness
by Provost Scott Scarborough. Dr.VanHoy appears in the April Edition of the Provost’s
Corner available for viewing at - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEgMXgj9uCU&feature=youtu.be
Dr. Kristen Keith, Associate Professor in the LLSS Department of Economics received the Outstanding
Adviser Award for 2012-2013. Dr. Keith was selected for this honor based on her effective
interpersonal skills, her educates and empowers students to make informed academic
decisions and prioritize their commitments to maximize academic, and her knowledge
about The University of Toledo policies and resources.
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