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The Distinguished Academic Citizenship Award honors faculty members who provide significant service contributions to 51ÊÓƵ-Dearborn, their unit, their professional discipline, or the external community. They stand as exemplars of well-rounded and dedicated academic citizenship. Awardees are faculty members who have provided extensive engagement and/or service with a substantial impact on the quality of 51ÊÓƵ-Dearborn as an educational institution and as a community of scholars, or with an augmentation and expansion of the public mission of our institution. Awardees should demonstrate a record of multiple engagement/service activities over a sustained period or a single major activity. One award is given annually.

This award replaces the Distinguished Service Award. If you are seeking information on Distinguished Service Award recipients prior to the years listed below, please contact the Office of the Provost.

Anna Muller, Professor of History, Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters

Past Recipients

• 2024, Lee Freeman, Associate Professor of Information Systems Management, Department of Management Studies, College of Business.
• 2023, Bruce Maxim, professor of Engineering and professor of Computer and Information Science, College of Engineer and Computer Science.
• 2022, Danielle DeFauw, associate professor of Education, College of Education, Health, and Human Services.
• 2021, Rashmi Luthra, professor in the Department of Language Culture and Communication, Colege of Arts, Sciences, and Letters.
• 2020, Lisa Martin, associate professor of College Wide Programs, College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters.
• 2019, H. James Gilmore, clinical professor of communication in the Department of Language, Culture, and Communication in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (CASL).
• 2018, Frank Massey, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters.
• 2017, John Riebesell, Associate Professor of Biology in the Department of Natural Sciences in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters.