2023 Dr. Kenton Swift, Professor Emeritus, Department of Accounting and Finance

2022 Phyllis Ngai, Communication Studies and International Development Studies Program

2021 Clint Walker, World Languages and Cultures

2020

2019 Deena Mansour, Mansfield Center

2018 Zhen Cao, Modern and Classical Languages and Literature

2017 Daniel Spencer, Environmental Studies

2016 Marja Unkuri-Chaudhry, Office of International Programs

2015 Sarah Halvorson, Professor, Department of Geography

2014 Elizabeth Ametsbichler, Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

2013 Leonid Kalachev, Professor and Chair, Mathematical Sciences Department

2012 Donald Bedunah (deceased), Department of Forest Management

2011 Wayne Freimund, Professor, Department of Society and Conservation

2010 Lynne Koester, Director, Intercultural Youth and Family Development Program and Professor, Department of Psychology

2009 Aaron Andreason, Professor, Department of Management and Marketing

2008 Professor Marc Hendrix, Geosciences

2007 Perry Brown, Dean, College of Forestry and Conservation

2006 Professor Rhea Ashmore, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education

2005 Professor, Dennis O’Donnell, Economics

2004 Professor and Chair Jeffrey Gritzner, Geography

2003 Maureen Curnow, Professor Foreign Languages & Literatures

2002 Stephen F. Siebert, Associate Professor, Forestry

2001 Eftychia Koehn, Director, Foreign Student and Scholar Services

2000 Professor Robert Hausmann, Chair, Linguistics

1999 Professor Peter Koehn, Political Science

1998 Dr. Robert W. Hollmann, Business Administration

1997 Professor Paul Lauren, History

1996 Professor Gerald Fetz, Foreign Languages & Literatures

1995 Professor Maureen Fleming, Management