Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Departmental Awards
Distinguished Alumni and Community Member Awards
- Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award
- Distinguished Criminal Justice Innovation Award
- Distinguished Professional Award
- Distinguished Criminal Justice and Criminology Appreciation Award
Faculty Awards
- Greg and Pierce Faculty Award in Criminal Justice and Criminology
- Outstanding Criminal Justice Professor
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
Graduate Student Awards
- Dr. Otwin Marenin Outstanding Doctoral Student
- Outstanding Criminal Justice Graduate Student Instructor
- Outstanding Master’s Student
- Outstanding Ph.D. Instructor
Undergraduate Student Awards and Scholarships
- Diego Moreno Memorial Scholarship
- Kathleen E. Taylor Scholarships
- Outstanding Undergraduate Student
- V.A. Leonard scholarship
Recipients
2020-2021
- Cortney Franklin, PhD, received the 2021 Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award
- Carl J. McCurley, PhD, received the 2021 Distinguished Criminal Justice Innovation Award
- Loren Atherley, MA, received the 2021 Distinguished Professional Award
- Amanda Yager received the 2021 Distinguished Criminal Justice and Criminology Appreciation Award
- Laurie Drapela, PhD, associate professor, received the 2021 Greg and Beth Pierce Faculty Award in Criminal Justice and Criminology
- John Snyder, JD, career-track teaching assistant professor, received the 2021 Outstanding Criminal Justice Professor Award
- Amelie Pedneault, PhD, assistant professor, received the 2021 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
- Angelo Brown, PhD 2021, was selected by the faculty to receive the 2021 Dr. Otwin Marenin Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
- Oliver Bowers, PhD 2021, received the 2021 Outstanding Criminal Justice Graduate Student Instructor Award
- Kathleen Eckert, MA 2021, was selected by the faculty to receive the 2021 Outstanding Master’s Student Award
- Christopher Dollar, PhD student, was selected by the faculty to receive the 2021 Outstanding PhD Instructor Award