A&L Faculty and Staff Honored at ODU Faculty Awards and Retirement Dinner

Dana Heller, professor of English, was among faculty and staff members from the College of Arts & Letters to be recognized at the 2018 Faculty Awards and Retirement Diner.

ODU held its annual Faculty Awards and Retirement Dinner on May 2. Five faculty members from the College of Arts and Letters received distinguished University awards:

• Dana Heller, Professor, Department of English
  Faculty Research Achievement Award

• Jennifer Fish, Professor and Chair, Department of Women's Studies
  Provost's Award for Leadership in International Education

• Beth Esinhart, Director of IDS-Teacher Preparation Program
  J. Worth Pickering Administrator of the Year Award

• Katherine Jackson, Master Lecturer, Department of English
  University Distinguished Teacher

• Aaron Nachtigal, Adjunct Lecturer, Dept of Philosophy and Religious Studies
  Adjunct Faculty Award

The following A&L faculty and staff also received recognition for their contributions to research, teaching, advising, or service:

• Betty Rose Facer, Master Lecturer, World Languages and Cultures
  ACTFL/CALICO Award for Excellence in Online Language Teaching in Higher Education

• Fran Hassencahl, Associate Professor, Communication and Theatre Arts
  National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Grant for "Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: The Voices of Women in Literature."

• Joe Jackson, Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing
  Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize for his biography of Black Elk

• David Mallin, Assistant Professor, Communication and Theatre Arts
  Best of the Festival by the Broadcast Education Association in the Faculty Narrative Film category for "Carmelita"

• Stacey Parks, Program Academic Advisor, IDS-Teacher Preparation and B.A. in International Studies
  Outstanding New Advisor with a Certificate of Merit from NCADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising

• Tim Seibles, Professor of English
  History Makers Award from the Black Alumni Association of Southern Methodist University

During the last segment of the awards and recognition dinner, two retiring A&L faculty were recognized: Joe Cosco, Associate Professor of English, and Dennis Zeisler, Professor of Music and Band Director. Joe has been a faculty member at ODU since 1998, and Dennis started his career at ODU in 1979.