The Hunter Scholar award was created in 1987 to encourage faculty scholarship. Hunter Scholar rewards faculty whose research makes extensive use of library collections. The award is jointly sponsored by Hunter Library, Graduate School and Research, Distance and Continuing Education, and the Office of the Provost. The Hunter Scholar is designated yearly among faculty (either tenured or tenure-track) who demonstrate a strong need for Hunter Library’s services and collections.
The award includes release time for one fall and one spring course, in addition to a full-time graduate research assistant for two semesters. Support funds (currently $400) are available to the recipient and can be used for supplies, travel, or other expenses related to the project. The Hunter Scholar will also receive a study carrel in the library for the duration of the award.
For additional information and to apply for the Hunter Scholar Award, please go to Research’s Hunter Scholar Awards page.
Hunter Scholar Recipients
Year
Name
Program/Department
Project Title
2009
Elizabeth G. McRae
History
Defining Dixie: The Strange Career of Nell Battle Lewis
2008
Marsha Lee Baker
English
Imagining Peace: American Literature in a Nonviolent Tradition
2007
Harold Herzog
Psychology
Thinking of Animals: Ethics, Culture and Human Nature
2006
Andrew Denson
History
Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and Southern Memory
2005
Katherine Mathews
Biology
Mapping Species Distributions in the Plant Genus Sabatia (Rose Gentian)
2004
Philip Coyle
Anthropology and Sociology
Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of the Blue Ridge Parkway
2003
Richard Starnes
History
Creating the “Land of the Sky” Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina 1800 – 1900
2002
Debra Burke
Marketing & Business Law
The Law of Hostile Working Environments
2001
Penny Smith
Educational Leadership & Foundations College of Education & Allied Professions
Not Ordinary Graded Schools: Education in the Southern Mountains of North Carolina
2000
Scott Philyaw
History
From Old Smokey to Sedro Wooley: Western North Carolina Migration to the Pacific Northwest
1999
James Costa
Biology
Reconsidering the Insect Sociality Program
1998
Robin Kowalski
Psychology
Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy
1997
Julie T. Johnson
Business Administration, Law and Marketing
Why Business Customers Defect to Competitive Suppliers
1996
Elizabeth Addison
English
Emerson’s Language: George Fox as Root and Reconciliation for Emersonian Poet-Seer and Realist
1995
Debra D. Burke
Marketing & Business Law
Cybersmut and The First Amendment
1994
Robin Kowalski
Psychology
Complaining: Antecedents, Functions, and Consequences
1993
Max Williams
History
Biography of William A. Graham
1992
Gayle Miller
English
The Image of The Cave: Medieval Women Who Write from Enclosure
1991
Harold Herzog
Psychology
The Philosophy and Psychology of Moral Valuations: The Case of Animals
1990
No award
NA
NA
1989
Bil Anderson*
1988
Gordon McKinney
History
The Vance Papers
*No record of Hunter Scholar award topic.