Departmental Awards
Distinguished Faculty Award 2006: On September, 2006, the College of Liberal Arts sponsored a reception in honor of our own Dr. Jay Johnson, who along with Dr. Richard Raspet from the Department of Physics, was named a Distinguished Faculty Fellow. Glenn Hopkins, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and David Swanson, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Chair, presented the Award to Jay. Chancellor Robert Khayat also said a few words in honor of the award. Various faculty, staff and students from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology were there to help Jay celebrate his remarkable achievement. Congratulations Jay!
Awards in Sociology
Undergraduate Awards
The JULIEN TATUM AWARD, established in 1981 by the friends and colleagues of the late Dr. Tatum, former University professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, recognizes the outstanding graduating senior in sociology.
Tatum Award Recipients:
2013 Robert Corban, Emma Willoughby
2012 Heather Knight, Darian Khosrowshahi
2011 Kelly Pizzo, Curtis McGehee
2010 Robert Reece, Artair Rogers, Haley West, Blake Williams
2009 Drew Wilkerson
2008 Ryan Johnson
2007 Natalie J. Horton
2006 Jennifer Salu
2005 Mary Jo Williamson
2004 Christopher Kelly
2003 Jordan Camp
2000 Kurt Brummett
1999 Marina Igorevna Luybimova
1998 Anna Clayton Hale
1997 Thomas Nakia Magee
1996 Tracy Johnson
1995 Ralph David Ford
Graduate Awards
The LARRY W. DEBORD AWARD, established in 1996 by the friends and colleagues of the late Dr. DeBord, former University professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, recognizes the outstanding student in the sociology M.A. program.
DeBord Award Recipients:
2013 Danielle Kerr
2012 Tiffiney Grey
2011 Joey Brown
2010 Andrew Whitaker
2009 Shane Elliott
2008 Maggie Tate
2007 Gwen Wages
2005 Matthieu Dessier
2004 Deidre Tyler
2003 Jason Reese
2002 Kurt Brummett
Taylor Medal:
2009 Drew Wilkerson
2000 Kurt Brummett
Awards in Anthropology
THE FRANCIS JAMES AWARD
The Francis James Award was named for Francis W. James, Professor of Anthropology, who died in December 1983. Francis was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bucknell. During the Second World War she worked as an Editorial Assistant for the American Red Cross and the U.S. Public Health Service. After the war, she was a journalist in London and wrote articles on archaeology. Francis pursed her interest
in archaeology by studying at London University’s Institute of Archaeology from which she obtained diplomas in the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces and Iron Age Europe (1953) and the Archaeology of Western Asia (1959) and a Ph.D. in Palestinian Archaeology (1963). She studied and/or worked in the field with such giants of archaeology as Dame Kathleen Kenyon, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and V. Gordon Childe.
Her association with the University of Missisisppi began in 1965. Her research included work at Roman and Medieval sites in England; Jericho and Beidha in Jordan; the Phoenician city of Motya in Sicily; and Qadesh in Syria. She published numerous articles and two major monographs in the University of Pennsylvania Museum Monographs series, The Iron Age at Beth Shan and The Late Bronze Egyptian Garrison at Beth Shan. The latter was published posthumously with Patrick E. McGovern. The James Award is given to an outstanding senior Anthropology major.
Recent recipients of the Francis James Award:
2013 Mattie Codling, Mary Margaret Saulters
2012 Locakeya Griffin
2010 Jaquelyn Land
2009 Jaquelynn Ennis
2007 Andrew Whitaker
2006 Jenna Hale Phillips
2005 Anwen Culver Thomas
2004 Joshlyn Pickens and Raquel Morris
2003 Justin Rives Nicholas
2002 Amelie Louise Nolen
2001 Angela Caryn Innman
2000 Dennis Michael Duncan
1999 Stacey Lynn Shankle
1998 Alecia Marie Spooner
1997 Robert Ramsey Herrington
1996 Monroe Causey Ginn
1995 Lennon Elias Bowen, IV
1994 Margaret Allen Reese
1993 Gail L. Heimer
1992 Victoria Johnson Gimma
Taylor Medal
2010 Billie Forrest
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