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Faculty Research Awards



The Sam Fox School’s Faculty Research Awards enable faculty to pursue innovative new projects or to advance ongoing creative activity and research. All Sam Fox School tenured faculty, tenure-track faculty, and full-time senior lecturers are eligible to apply. Faculty having relinquished tenure for phased retirement are ineligible for this award. Research awards are available in amounts ranging from $1,000-$10,000. Recipients will be asked to present their project outcomes to the Sam Fox School community in the form of a public presentation.


2024-25 Award Recipients

  • Chris Dingwall, assistant professor, for archival research for “Black Energy: The Infrastructures of the Black Arts Movement.”

  • Meghan Kirkwood, associate professor and chair of undergraduate studio art, to work with editors in sequencing two bodies of work for fellowships and book proposals: Orphan Wells and Prolonged Aftermath.

  • Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, assistant professor, for the publication of an edited volume titled “Claying Architecture: Making Machine and Material Kin” and an accompanying exhibition in New York City.

  • Arny Nadler, associate professor, in support of a solo exhibition scheduled for the University of Dallas’ Haggerty Gallery in fall 2024.

  • Aggie Toppins, associate professor and chair of undergraduate design,to plan a half-day symposium titled “New Directions in Design History” to be held at the Sam Fox School in the spring 2025 semester.

2023-24

Monika Weiss, professor
Wyly Brown, assistant professor
Kelley Murphy and Heidi Kolk, assistant professors
Jonathan Stitelman, senior lecturer
Jonathan Hanahan, associate professor

2022-23

Douglas Dowd, professor
Patty Heyda, associate professor
Meghan Kirkwood, assistant professor
Aggie Toppins, associate professor
Constance Vale, assistant professor
Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, assistant professor

2021-22

Aggie Toppins, associate professor
Shreyas R Krishnan, assistant professor
Pablo Moyano Fernandez, assistant professor
Wyly Brown, assistant professor
Linda C. Samuels, associate professor
Derek Hoeferlin, associate professor
News announcement

2020-21

Jonathan Hanahan, assistant professor
Igor Marjanović, JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor
Eric Mumford, Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, and Shantel Blakely, assistant professor
Tim Portlock, professor
Denise Ward-Brown, professor
News announcement

2019-20

Petra Kempf, assistant professor
Derek Hoeferlin, associate professor
Meghan Kirkwood, assistant professor
Constance Vale, assistant professor
Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, assistant professor
News announcement

2018-19

Patty Heyda, associate professor
Lisa Bulawsky, professor
Tom Reed, senior lecturer
Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, associate professor
Tim Portlock, associate professor
Penina Acayo Laker, assistant professor
News announcement

2017-18

Chandler Ahrens, assistant professor
Chrissi Cowhey, assistant professor
Douglas B. Dowd, professor
Pablo Moyano, senior lecturer
Linda C. Samuels, associate professor
News announcement

2016-17

Ken Botnick, professor
Jennifer Colten, senior lecturer
Catalina Freixas, assistant professor
Jonathan Hanahan, assistant professor
Buzz Spector, professor
Stan Strembicki, professor

2015-16

Rod Barnett, professor, and Jacqueline Margetts, senior lecturer
Derek Hoeferlin, assistant professor
Stephen Leet, professor
Denise Ward-Brown, associate professor
News announcement

2014-15

Chandler Ahrens, assistant professor
Lisa Bulawsky, associate professor
Jennifer Colten, senior lecturer
Patty Heyda, assistant professor
Igor Marjanovic, associate professor
News announcement

2013-14

Catalina Freixas, assistant professor, and Pablo Moyano, senior lecturer
Kees Lokman, assistant professor
Lindsey Stouffer, senior lecturer
News announcement

2012-13

Ron Fondaw, professor
Patty Heyda, assistant professor; Natalie Yates, assistant professor; and Christine Yogiaman, assistant professor
Igor Marjanovic, associate professor
Eric Mumford, professor
Monika Weiss, assistant professor
News announcement

2011-12

Lauren Adams, assistant professor
Joan Hall, Kenneth E. Hudson Professor of Art
Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture
Christine Yogiaman, assistant professor
News announcement

2010-11

Ken Botnick, professor
DB Dowd, professor
Derek Hoeferlin, senior lecturer
Jenny Lovell, assistant professor
Arny Nadler, associate professor
News announcement

2009-10

Denise Ward-Brown, associate professor
News announcement

2008-09

Lisa Bulawsky, associate professor
Michael Byron, professor
Jenny Lovell, assistant professor
Jen Maigret, assistant professor
Heather Woofter, assistant professor
News announcement

2007-08

DB Dowd, professor
Zeuler Lima, assistant professor
Igor Marjanovic, assistant professor
Arny Nadler, assistant professor
Franklin Oros, associate professor

The Faculty Research Awards are funded by the Ralph J. Nagel Deanship Endowment.