L&S Advising Awards

Persons honored with an L&S Academic Advising award are exceptional advisors. Recipients have demonstrated exemplary performance both in terms of their positive impact on students and through distinctive contributions to their department, unit, and/or the College of Letters & Science.

All Recipients

2024-2025

Early Career Recipient

  • Jessica DeKuiper, Academic Advisor, L&S Student Academic Affairs

Mid-Career Recipient

  • Lyn Macgregor, Academic Advisor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology

Graduate Student Advising Recipient

  • Sarah Moore, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Geography

Distinguished Achievement Recipient

  • Martine Delannay, Academic Advising Manager, Center for Law, Society & Justice

2023-2024

Early Career Recipients

  • Christine Evans, Associate Director of Advising and Curriculum, L&S Honors Program
  • Katie McCullough, Academic Advising Manager, Department of Chemistry
  • Todd Reck, Academic Advising Manager, Mead Witter School of Music

Mid-Career Recipient

  • Tim Scott, Academic Advisor, L&S Academic Advising Services

Graduate Student Advising Recipient

  • Anne Pringle, Professor of Botany, Departments of Botany and Bacteriology

Distinguished Achievement Recipient

  • Carmela Diosana, Academic Advising Manager, Department of Statistics

2022-23

  • Erica Haas, Assistant Director, L&S Academic Advising Services
  • Alicia Johanning, Undergraduate Academic Advising Associate Director, Department of Economics
  • Dan McCammon, Professor, Department of Physics
  • Amy Stambach, Professor, Department of Anthropology

2021-22

  • Leslie Abadie, Graduate Program Manager, Department of History
  • Erin Polnaszek Boyd, Academic Advisor, Department of English
  • Joel Gruley, Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Geography
  • Rachel Weiss, Undergraduate Advisor and Graduate Coordinator, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

2020-21

  • Rachelle Eilers, Senior Academic Adviser, Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program
  • Maureen Muldoon, Career and Internship Specialist, SuccessWorks

2019-20

  • Toni Landis, Senior Student Services Examiner, Departments of African Cultural Studies & Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
  • Susan Nelson, Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies

2018-19

  • James Graettinger, Advisor, L&S Academic Advising Services
  • Marie Koko, Senior Student Services Coordinator, SuccessWorks

2017-18

  • Scott Burkhardt, Senior Advisor, Department of History
  • Mark Louden, Professor, Department of German, Nordic & Slavic

2016-17

  • Karen Redfield, Department of English
  • Lisa Aarli, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

2015-16

  • Teddy Kaul, Associate Student Services Coordinator, Department of Art History
  • Myra Marx Ferree, Professor, Department of Sociology

2014-15

  • Ricardo Court, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science
  • Jeanne Hamers, Chemistry Undergraduate Program Director and Major Advisor, Department of Chemistry

2013-14

  • Jeff Beneker, Associate Professor, Department of Classics
  • Mary Treleven, Senior Student Services Coordinator, Lafollette School of Public Affairs

2012-13

  • Melanie Manion, Professor, Department of Political Science
  • Karen Thompson, Senior Advisor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

2011-12

  • Patricia Rosenmeyer, Professor, Department of Classics
  • Anna Tumarkin, Associate Faculty Associate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature

2010-11

  • Nina Valeo-Cooke, Academic Staff, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
  • Mark Kenoyer, Professor, Department of Anthropology

2009-10

  • Steven Winspur, Professor, Department of French and Italian
  • Stephanie Osborn, Academic Staff, Department of Psychology

2008-09

  • Ronald Troxel, Associate Professor, Religious Studies Program
  • Molly McGlone, Assistant Director of Advising and Curriculum, L&S Honors Program

2007-08

  • Gloria Mari-Beffa, Professor, Department of Mathematics
  • Liane Kosaki, Academic Staff, Department of Political Science

2006-07

  • Philip Brown, Professor,Department of Geology
  • Rebecca Ryan, Academic Staff, Cross-College Advising Services

2005-06

  • Andrew Irving, Faculty, Department of French & Italian
  • Ellen Jacobson, Academic Staff, Department of Sociology

2004-05

  • Neil Richardson, Professor, Department of Political Science
  • Christine Schindler, Academic Staff, International Studies Division

Nominate an outstanding advisor.

For more information about Advising Awards, please contact Associate Dean of Student Academic Affairs Cal Bergman.