Mershon is proud to recognize faculty affiliates who received 2025-2026 endowed and college-wide awards from the College of Arts and Sciences for research, teaching, mentoring and service.

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor

The title of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor serves to honor full professor colleagues who have excelled in teaching, service, and research/creative activity, and whose work has demonstrated significant impact on their fields, students, college and university, and/or the public.

• Angela Brintlinger, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award

The Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award recognizes a full professor who has a truly exceptional record in teaching, research and service. The award was established in 2002 in honor and memory of Dr. Harlan Hatcher, an alumnus and former dean of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State.

• Mytheli Sreenivas, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Honors Faculty Service Award

• Alice Conklin, Department of History 

Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow Award

The Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellowships are supported from endowment funds in honor of Joan Huber, who in her own scholarly career and as Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences from 1984-1992 set the highest standards for all. This fellowship program recognizes some of the very strongest scholars in the social and behavioral sciences disciplines.

• Amanda Robinson, Department of Political Science 

Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award

The Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes outstanding performance in all three areas of research, teaching and service of mid-career faculty at the time of promotion.

• Eric Schoon, Department of Sociology 

See the full list of award recipients.