Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

Assisting faculty in developing research or creative activity

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award is the most prestigious campus-level award available specifically to pre-tenure faculty. The award is designed to identify the most promising untenured, tenure-track faculty and assist them in the development of their scientific, scholarly, or artistic activities.

Those selected to win this prestigious honor have begun to develop nationally recognized research programs, and devoted productive time to the teaching and service missions of the university.

Read about current Outstanding Junior Faculty Award recipients

Nomination deadline for AY25-26

February 2nd

Submit a nomination here

Eligibility

All untenured, tenure-track Bloomington faculty in the third, fourth, or fifth year of the tenure probationary period are eligible for nomination.

Nominations are encouraged from all schools and departments on the Bloomington campus.

Nomination process

Faculty members are nominated for the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award by their department chair or (in non-departmentalized schools) by their academic associate dean.

The dossier should include:

Include a current curriculum vitae.

A two-page narrative description of research/creative activity, provided by the nominee to the chair or dean, discussing past accomplishments, current work, and future plans in a language accessible to colleagues from a wide array of disciplines.

Nomination letter from the candidate’s department chair or school associate dean that summarizes early-career indicators of research excellence and describes promise for the future.

Two additional letters of recommendation: one from an IU Bloomington faculty member and the other from somebody outside the university who is familiar with the candidate’s work.

A faculty committee will review the nominations, and winners will be announced in the late spring.

If you have any questions regarding the nomination and selection process, please contact our office at 812-855-2809 or email vpfaa@indiana.edu.

Past Outstanding Junior Faculty Award recipients

- Fan Chen, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering
- Asaf Lubin, Maurer School of Law
- Sergio Ospina Romero, Jacobs School of Music
- Caryn Palatchi, Physics
- Julio Postigo, Geography
- Marta Venier, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Ann-Sophie Barwich, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Cognitive Science Program, (College of Arts & Sciences);
Juan Bu, Management and Entrepreneurship, (Kelley School of Business);
Dorainne Green, Psychological and Brain Sciences, (College of Arts & Sciences);
Wendy Leutert, East Asian Languages and Cultures, (Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies);
Luyi Xing, Computer Science, (Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering)

Brandon Barker, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, (College of Arts & Sciences);
Amanda Mejia, Statistics, (College of Arts & Sciences);
Tennisha Riley, IU School of Education;
Sagar Samtani, Kelley School of Business;
Brielle Stark, Language and Hearing Sciences, (College of Arts & Sciences);
Xindan Wang, Biology, (College of Arts & Sciences)

Liza Black, History, (College of Arts & Sciences);
Cathy Cheng, School of Optometry;
Ore Koren, Political Science, (College of Arts & Sciences)
Molly Rosenberg, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, (School of Public Health);
Jennifer Silva, (Paul H O'Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs)

Hussein Banai, International Studies, (Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies);
Elizabeth Claffey, Photography, (Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design);
Emily Fyfe, Psychological and Brain Sciences, (College of Arts & Sciences)
Feng Guo, Intelligent Systems Engineering, (Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering);
Keisuke Kawata, Kinesiology, (School of Public Health)

Kathryn Graber, Anthropology (College of Arts & Sciences); Central Eurasian Studies (Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies)
Vikram Jadhao, Intelligent Systems Engineering (Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering)
Kimberly Rosvall, Biology (College of Arts & Sciences)
Jonathan Schlebach, Chemistry (College of Arts & Sciences)
Abbey Stemler, Business Law and Ethics (Kelley School of Business)

George Ball, Operations & Decision Technologies (Kelley School of Business)
Ankur Dalia, Biology (College of Arts & Sciences)
Jessica Eaglin, Maurer School of Law
Adam Liff, East Asian Languages & Cultures (Hamilton-Lugar School of Global and International Studies)
Joanna Woronkowicz, Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Darren Ficklin, Geography (College of Arts & Sciences)
Andrew Halpern-Manners, Sociology (College of Arts & Sciences)
Nam Le, Mathematics (College of Arts & Sciences)
Rebekah Sheldon, English (College of Arts & Sciences)
Adam Ward, School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Shahzeen Attari, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
James Farmer, School of Public Health
Justin Garcia, Gender Studies (College of Arts and Sciences)
Jake McKinlay, Biology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Nikki Skillman, English (College of Arts and Sciences)

Jennifer Brass, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Jessica Calarco, Sociology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Margaret Graves, Hope School of Fine Arts (College of Arts and Sciences)
Noah Snyder, Mathematics (College of Arts and Sciences)
Enrico Vesperini, Astronomy (College of Arts and Sciences)

Matthew Baggetta, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Dominick DiOrio, Jacobs School of Music
Mary Murphy, Psychological and Brain Sciences (College of Arts and Sciences)
Judy Qiu, School of Informatics and Computing
Babak Seradjeh, Physics (College of Arts and Sciences)

Kylie Peppler, School of Education
Selma Sabanovic, School of Informatics and Computing
Scott Shackelford, Kelley School of Business
Steven Tait, Chemistry (College of Arts and Sciences)
Anh Tran, School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Geography (College of Arts and Sciences)
Silas Cook, Chemistry (College of Arts and Sciences)
Shirin Hassan, School of Optometry
Beth Meyerson, School of Public Health
Rowland Ricketts III, Hope School of Fine Arts (College of Arts and Sciences)

Erin E. Carlson, Chemistry (College of Arts and Sciences)
Radovan Dermisek, Physics (College of Arts and Sciences)
Michael Jones, Psychological and Brain Sciences (College of Arts and Sciences)
Michael Muehlenbein, Anthropology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Christina Snyder, History (College of Arts and Sciences)

Joshua Brown, Psychological and Brain Sciences (College of Arts and Sciences)
Michael Foster, Folklore and Ethnomusicology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Ilana Gershon, Communication and Culture (College of Arts and Sciences)
Amit Hagar, History and Philosophy of Science (College of Arts and Sciences)
Eden Medina, School of Informatics and Computing

Brian D’Onofrio, Psychological and Brain Sciences (College of Arts and Sciences)
Christiane Gruber, Art History (College of Arts and Sciences)
Ho-Fung Hung, Sociology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Daniel Kearns, Biology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Marissa Moorman, History (College of Arts and Sciences)

Marco Arnaudo, French and Italian (College of Arts and Sciences)
Beth Gazley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Scott Herring, English (College of Arts and Sciences)
Ted Striphas, Communication and Culture (College of Arts and Sciences)
Haixu Tang, School of Informatics and Computing

Candy Gunther Brown, Religious Studies (College of Arts and Sciences)
Tony H. Grubesic, Geography (College of Arts and Sciences)
Scott Michaels, Biology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Ethan Michelson, Sociology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Sima Setayeshgar, Physics (College of Arts and Sciences)
Chen Yu, Psychological and Brain Sciences (College of Arts and Sciences)

Katherine Connelly, Computer Science (College of Arts and Sciences)
Sara L. Friedman, Anthropology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Minaxi Gupta, Computer Science (College of Arts and Sciences)
Dongwhan Lee, Chemistry (College of Arts and Sciences)
Edward Watts, History (College of Arts and Sciences)

Mu-Hyun Baik, Chemistry (College of Arts and Sciences)
Sarah Knott, History (College of Arts and Sciences)
Ivan Kreilkamp, English (College of Arts and Sciences)
Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Communication and Culture (College of Arts and Sciences)
Jutta Schickore, History and Philosophy of Science (College of Arts and Sciences)

Aurelian Craiutu, Political Science (College of Arts and Sciences)
Daniel Mindiola, Chemistry (College of Arts and Sciences)
Liese van Zee, Astronomy (College of Arts and Sciences)
Massimo Scalabrini, French and Italian (College of Arts and Sciences)
Sun Kim, School of Informatics and Computing

Clay Fuqua, Biology (College of Arts and Sciences)
David Kehoe, Biology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Jeffrey Johnston, Chemistry (College of Arts and Sciences)
Jonathan Sheehan, History (College of Arts and Sciences)
Katy Börner, School of Library and Information Science

Jim Bever, Biology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Maria Bucur, History (College of Arts and Sciences)
Olaf Sporns, Psychological and Brain Sciences (College of Arts and Sciences)
Osama James Nakagawa, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts

Arthur Alderson, Sociology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Ayelet Lindenstrauss, Mathematics (College of Arts and Sciences)
Constantine Deliyannis, Astronomy (College of Arts and Sciences)
Vassilios G. Vardaxis, School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation
Susana T. Chung, School of Optometry

Fritz Breithaupt, Germanic Studies (College of Arts and Sciences)
Jeffrey Magee, IU Jacobs School of Music
Matthew Auer, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Paul Gutjahr, English (College of Arts and Sciences)

Carl Ipsen, West European Studies (School of Global and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences)
Janet Sorensen, English (College of Arts and Sciences)
Martin Stone, Chemistry (College of Arts and Sciences)
Patrick Hopkins, Kelley School of Business

Alyce Miller, English (College of Arts and Sciences)
Clement Brooks, Sociology (College of Arts and Sciences)
Laura Murray, Speech and Hearing Sciences (College of Arts and Sciences)
Michelle Facos, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts

C. Cheng Kao, Biology (College of Arts and Sciences)
David Clemmer, Chemistry (College of Arts and Sciences)
David Dzubay, Jacobs School of Music
Michael Berger, Physics (College of Arts and Sciences)
W. Michael Dickson, History and Philosophy of Science (College of Arts and Sciences)

David Brakke, Religious Studies (College of Arts and Sciences)
Diane Henshel, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Joan Pong-Linton, English (College of Arts and Sciences)
Lisa Bingham, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Yingjin Zhang, East Asian Languages and Cultures (School of Global and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences)

Andrew Ellington, Chemistry (College of Arts and Sciences)
Jamsheed Choksy, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (School of Global and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences)
Joyce Alexander, Wright School of Education
Scott Robeson, Geography (College of Arts and Sciences)
Timothy O’Connor, Philosophy (College of Arts and Sciences)

Andrea Ciccarelli, French and Italian (College of Arts and Sciences)
John Efron, History (College of Arts and Sciences)
Lynda Delph, Biology (College of Arts and Sciences)
C. Susan Grimmond, Geography (College of Arts and Sciences)

Outstanding Junior Faculty Award