The Judith Craig Distinguished Service Award honors an L&S academic staff member with 15 or more years of outstanding service, and is named in honor of former L&S Associate Dean Judith Craig.
All Recipients
2025-2026 Announcement Article
- Jude Leimer, Managing Editor, History of Cartography Project, Department of Geography
2024-2025:
- Elaine Klein, Associate Dean for Academic Planning, L&S Administration
- Ronald Kuka, Faculty Associate, Department of English
2023-2024: Denise Wiyaka, Director, American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program
2022-2023: Christopher Lee, Assistant Dean and Director, L&S Student Academic Affairs
2021-22: Martha Vestling, Director of the Mass Spectrometry Facility, Department of Chemistry
2020-21: Mark Wetter, Senior Academic Curator, Wisconsin State Herbarium
2019-20: Liane Kosaki, Asst. Dean and Assoc Lecturer, Student Academic Affairs
2018-19: Charlie Fry, Distinguished Scientist, Department of Chemistry
2017-18: Nancy Westphal-Johnson, Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Undergraduate Education, College of Letters & Science Administration, and Jean Heitz, Distinguished Faculty Associate, Department of Integrative Biology
2016-17: Anthony (Tony) Jacob, Department of Chemistry
2015-16: Caton Roberts, Faculty Associate, Department of Psychology
2014-15: Michael Cullinane, Associate Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies Program.
2013-14: Sandra Arfa, Faculty Associate, Department of English
2012-13: Matt Sanders, Assistant Academic Program Director, Department of Chemistry
2011-12: Brad Hughes, Director, The Writing Center
2010-11: Bruno Browning, Director, Learning Support Services
2009-10: Richard Loveless, Distinguished Scientist, Department of Physics
2008-09: Laurey Martin-Berg, Distinguished Lecturer, Department of French and Italian
2007-08: Maggie Sullivan, Academic Staff, L&S Administration
2006-07: Ada Deer, Academic Staff, American Indian Studies Program; Read Gilgen, Academic Staff, Learning Support Services
2005-06: Catherine H. Middlecamp, Academic Staff, Department of Chemistry
2004-05: Jeffrey F. Petersen, Academic Staff, Center for Demography and Ecology, Department of Sociology
2003-2004: Mel Morgenbesser, School of Social Work
2002-2003: Taissa Hauser, Department of Sociology
2001-2002*: Judy Craig, L&S Administration
*In 2001-2001, the first year the awards were given, the top-level one was simply called the Distinguished Service Award. When he conferred it on Judy Craig, who was retiring that year, Dean Phillip Certain announced that future iterations of the award would bear her name.
Nominate an outstanding academic staff member.
Please contact the PDRC for more information about the Academic Staff Awards.