Outstanding Scholar Award

The Saint Mary’s College Outstanding Scholar Award recognizes tenured faculty at Saint Mary’s College who have excelled in the areas of scholarship or creative activity, evidenced by their peer-reviewed publications, other scholarly and creative activities, and/or success in securing external funds for their research. Please see this document for more information about the award, nomination process, and selection criteria (requires SMC login).

Past Recipients

2025 Matthew Zapruder, Creative Writing

2024 Costanza Dopfel, Art + Art History, World Languages and Cultures

2023 Manisha Anantharaman, Justice, Community, and Leadership

2022 Sonya Schuh, Biology

2022 Lysley Tenorio, English, Creative Writing

2020 Ellen Veomett, Math and Computer Science

2019 Elena Songster, History

2018 Hisham Ahmed, Politics

2017 Myrna Santiago, History

2016 Saroja Subrahmanyan, Business

2015 Janice Doane, English

2014 Ronald P. Olowin, Physics

2013 Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, History

2012 David Alvarez, Politics

2011 Carl Guarneri, History