Previous Winners

  • Randal A. Lutz (2023)
  • Silver Francis Oonyu (2023)
  • Marilyn Hoyson, PhD (2022)
  • David A. Squires, PhD (2022)
  • Isabel L. Beck, PhD (2021)
  • Linda Rose Frank, PhD, MSN, FAAN (2021)
  • Mary Ann Watson, PhD (2020)
  • Chris Groark (2019)
  • Julius Kitutu (2019)
  • Carol O’Donnell (2018)
  • Karen VanderVen, PhD (2017)
  • Renée K. Goldman, EdD (2016)
  • Rita M. Bean, PhD (2016)
  • Carol McGrevin, PhD (2015)
  • R. Rudy Filek, PhD (2014)
  • Richard Goldman, PhD (2013)
  • Andrew R. Hughey, PhD (2012)
  • Kathleen Mary Huebner, PhD (2011)
  • Gwendolyn Cartledge, PhD (2010)
  • Lizanne DeStefano, PhD (2009)
  • Nancy R. Bunt, EdD (2008)
  • Richard L. Welsh, PhD (2008)
  • Susan Albrecht, PhD (2007)
  • Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD (1999)
  • Jerlean E. Daniel, PhD (1997)
  • George S. Morrison, EdD (1997)
  • Doreen E. Boyce, PhD (1996)
  • Richard L. Ferguson, PhD (1996)
  • Donald M. Carroll, Jr., MEd (1995)
  • Carol A. Cartwright, PhD (1994)
  • Helen S. Faison, PhD (1994)
  • Nick J. Staresinic, PhD (1994)
  • John N. Mangieri, PhD (1992)

  • Nikki Cristobal (2023)
  • Aaron Thomas (2023)
  • Adan J. Alvarez, PhD (2022)
  • Kalani M. Palmer, PhD (2022)
  • Seth A. Creasy, PhD (2021)
  • Jasmine D. Williams, PhD (2021)
  • Treg Campbell (2020)
  • Ira Murray (2019)
  • Kakenya Ntaiya, PhD (2018)
  • Mandi Davis Skerbetz, EdD (2017)
  • Timothy Wagner, EdD (2017)
  • Susan M. Hicks, PhD (posthumous) (2016)
  • Lauren A. Silverstein, PhD (2015)
  • Francesca Amati, PhD (2014)
  • Katie Clark Patterson, MEd (2014)
  • Christine Carnevali, MAT (2013)
  • Thomas E. Platt, EdD (2012)
  • Michael P. Lucas, EdD (2011)
  • Fabio Fontana, PhD (2010)
  • Carena Sue Winters, PhD (2009)
  • Veronica I. Ent, EdD (2008)
  • Patricia A. Pierce, PhD (2007)

  • Marlon J. Mussington, Sr. (2023)
  • Kenda L. Hammer, MEd (2022)
  • Virginia R. Hill, EdD (2021)
  • Janet Marie Sardon, EdD (2021)
  • William Hale Kerr, Jr., EdD (2020)
  • Timothy Hetrich (2019)
  • Bart Rocco (2018)
  • Mary Catherine Reljac, EdD (2017)
  • Tracy L. Vitale, EdD (2016)
  • Brian White, EdD (2015)
  • Brent Johnson, MEd (2014)
  • Pamela Armstrong, EdD (2013)
  • Jeffrey D. Derda, MAT (2011)
  • Mark A. Miller, MEd (2011)
  • Kathleen Harrington, EdD (2010)
  • Paula Ann Calabrese, PhD (2009)
  • Regina B. Holley, PhD (2008)

Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy

  • Roberta L. Schomburg (2023)
  • Barbara S. Stengel, PhD (2022)

Department of Health and Human Development

  • Dennis Floyd Jones (2023)
  • Lynn Dale Housner, PhD (2022)

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading

  • Chantee L. Earl (2023)
  • Davonia D. Bryant, MAT (2022)

Former Department Awards

The academic departments at the Pitt School of Education were restructured in 2021. The Departmental Distinguished Alumni Award recipients from 2007-2021 are listed below.

Department of Instruction and Learning

  • Rebecca S. Pringle (2021)
  • Gary R. Snyder, EdD (2020)
  • Tsipy Gur (2019)
  • Judith Summerfield (2018)
  • Diane Pomeroy Wormsley, PhD (2017)
  • JoAnne E. Burley, PhD (2016)
  • Kay Alicyn Ferrell, PhD (2015)
  • Sean McComb (2014)
  • Beverly K. Michael, PhD (2013)
  • Jacqueline Lee Dempsey, PhD (2012)
  • Walt A. Stoy, PhD (2011)
  • Mary Cataldi, EdD (2010)
  • Richard David Wertheimer, EdD (2009)
  • Richard P. Mathews, MEd (2007)

Department of Health and Physical Activity

  • Niall M. Moyna, PhD, FACSM, FFPHMI (2021)
  • Reed Humphrey (2020)
  • Robert Spina (2019)
  • Jennifer Pintar (2018)
  • Enzo Cafarelli, PhD (posthumous, 2017)
  • John R. Tomayko, PhD (2016)
  • Andrea M. Kriska, PhD (2015)
  • Robert Robertson, PhD (2014)
  • Alan C. Utter, PhD (2013)
  • Patricia A. Nixon, PhD (2012)
  • Carl J. Caspersen, PhD (2011)
  • Paul Morgan Ribisl, PhD (2010)
  • Stella Lucia Volpe, PhD (2009)
  • Donna Sanft, MEd (2008)
  • Kent B. Pandolf, PhD (2007)

Department of Administrative and Policy Studies

  • Mary Catherine Reljac, EdD (2021)
  • Alphonse DeSena, PhD (2020)
  • Patrick O’Toole (2019)
  • Amy Pfender (2018)
  • Donna L. Imhoff, PhD (2017)
  • Gloria P. Hill, PhD (2016)
  • Erica Kolat, EdD (2015)
  • Cynthia Reed, EdD (2014)
  • Carol Wooten, EdD (2013)
  • S. Allen Condeluci, PhD (2012)
  • Gregg S. Margolis, PhD (2011)
  • Maria Eugenia Piantanida, PhD (2010)
  • Namgi Park, PhD (2009)
  • Charlene Mickens Dukes, EdD (2008)
  • Yidan Wang, PhD (2007)

Department of Psychology in Education

  • Cynthia J. Popovich, EdD (2021)
  • Leon E. Wiles (2020)
  • Matthew Fasano-McCarron (2019)
  • Denise Esposto (2018)
  • Michelle Figlar (2017)
  • Bernard E. Beidel, MEd (2016)
  • Hedda Sharapan, MS (2015)
  • Antoinette Y. Farmer, PhD (2014)
  • Natalie Kaplan, MEd (2013)
  • Pamela Moss, PhD (2012)
  • Jennifer Engel, MS (2011)
  • Larry Irwin Edelman, MS (2010)
  • Richard C. Carney, MS (2009)
  • James E. Hughes, PhD (2009)
  • Dr. Dale H. Curry, PhD (2008)
  • Merle D. Griff, PhD (2008)
  • Sister Madeleine Rybicki, MS (2008)

  • Yuan Gao (2023)
  • Sendi Judith Estrada (2022)
  • Sarah E. Kurz (2021)
  • Ashley Shafer (2020)
  • Paulette Vincent-Ruz (2019)
  • Qiana Lightner-Lachaud (2018)
  • Jasmine D. Williams (2017)
  • Ida Chavoshan (2016)
  • Everett Herman (2015)
  • Joshua Childs (2014)
  • Aaron Kessler (2013)
  • April A. Mattix (2012)
  • Christina L. Scanlon (2011)
  • Jorge E. Delgado (2010)
  • Chantee McBride (2009)
  • Francesca Amati (2008)
  • Wendy M. Sink (2007)

Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award

  • Emily Rose Korn Koren (2023)
  • Rachel Anne Schles, PhD (2021)
  • Lauren E. Moran, EdD (2020)
  • Eben B. Witherspoon, PhD (2020)
  • Ross Higashi, PhD (2019)
  • Stacy Kehoe, PhD (2018)
  • Anita M. Schuchardt, PhD (2017)
  • Laura Northrop, PhD (2017)
  • Joshua Childs, PhD (2016)
  • Lisa Brahms, PhD (2015)
  • Miray Tekkumru Kisa, PhD (2014)

Outstanding EdD Dissertation Award

  • Julie Schultz (2023)
  • Christian Alberto, EdD (2022)
  • Julia Adele Cavallo, EdD (2021)
  • Elizabeth LaGamba, EdD (2019)
  • Tracy Driver, EdD (2018)
  • Joseph McCormick, EdD (2016)
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