Edward A Dickson Emeriti Professorship AWARD
The Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award is funded from a gift endowment established by the late Edward A. Dickson, Regent of the University of California, to honor outstanding research, scholarly work, teaching, and service performed by an Emeritus or Emerita Professor since retirement.
AWARDEES BY CAMPUS
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BERKELEY
2020-2021: Robert E. Bergman, Chemistry | Hugh Richmond, English
2019-2020: David Bogy, Mechanical Engineering | Robert Glaeser, Molecular and Cell Biology
2018-2019: Jan de Vries, History | Christina Maslach, Psychology
2017-2018: Mary Ann Mason, Social Welfare | Kenneth Polse, Optometry
2016–2017: John Casida, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management | Jack Kirsch, Molecular and Cell Biology
2015-2016: Joel Altman, English | Carols Munoz Jr., Ethnic Studies
2014-2015: Alan H. Nelson, English | Joseph W. Wolf, Mathematics
2013–2014: Jerry Cradock, Spanish and Portuguese | John M. Prausnitz, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2012–2013: Arlie Hochschild, Sociology
2011–2012: C. Roger Glassey, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
2008–2009: Robert Sawyer, Mechanical Engineering
2007–2008: Joseph Duggan, French
DAVIS
2021–2022: Howard Ferris, Entomology and Nematology | Fredric Gorin, Neurology | Halifu Osumare, African American and African Studies
2020–2021: Suad Joseph, Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies | Robert "Bob" Rucker, Nutrition
2019–2020: Gyöngy Laky, Art
2018–2019: Caroline Chantry, Pediatrics | Anthony Philipps, School of Medicine
2017–2018: Peter Hays | Martha Macri | Frederic Troy
2016–2017 : Brian Higgins | Gerald Kost | Bruce Lyeth
2015–2016: Roy Bellhorn | Nicole Woolsey Biggart | John Meeks | Dennis Wilson
2014–2015: Dan Anderson, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | Hugh Dingle, Entomology | Martha Macri, Native American Studies | Peter Schiffman, Geology
2013–2014: William Jackson, Chemistry | Bill Lasley, School of Medicine | James Murphy, English | Cal Qualset, Plant Sciences
2012–2013: George Bruening, Plant Pathology | Robert Rucker, Nutrition | James Seiber, Food Science and Technology | Yin Yeh, Applied Science
2011–2012: Peter Hays, English | Don Price, History | Kurt Kreith, Mathematics | Charles Halsted, Internal Medicine and Nutrition
2010–2011: Robert Derlet and Charles Goldman, Limnology | Karen M. Reiser, UCD Health System | Robbin W. Thorp, Entomology
2009–2010: n/a
2008–2009: Emanual Epstein, Plant Physiology
2007–2008: Verne Mendel, Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
2006–2007: Richard Walters, Computer Science and Medical Informatics
IRVINE
2012–2013: J. Hillis Miller, English
2011–2012: Keith L. Nelson, History
2009–2010: Robert Folkenflick, English Literature | Ellen Greenberger, Physiology and Human Behavior
2006–2007: Barbara Hamkalo, Microbiology and Biochemistry | Lyman Porter, Business
2003–2004: Harold Moore, Chemistry | Spencer Olin, History
LOS ANGELES
2023-2024: Alan J. Ardell, Material Sciences and Engineering | Thomas J. Coates, Medicine | Robert Ettenger, Pediatrics | Teofilo Ruiz, History, Spanish and Portuguese
2020–2021: Benjamin Bonavida, Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics | Warwick Peacock, Neurosurgery | Donald Shoup, Urban Planning
2019–2020: Christopher Cooper Medicine & Physiology | Kendall Houk Chemistry & Biochemistry | Pamela Munro Linguistics
2018–2019: Richard L. Abel, Law | Ivan Berend, History | James Cherry, Pediatrics
2016–2017: Robert Bjork, Psychology | E. Richard Stiehm, Pediatrics | Martin Wachs, Urban Planning
2017–2018: William A.V. Clark, Geography | Rita Effros, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Judea Pearl, Computer Science
2013–2014: Eric Fonkalsrud, Pediatric Surgery | Howard Suber, Film, Theater and Television
2012–2013: Charlotte Neuman, Public Health | Vuvian Sobchack, Theatre Arts | Lawrence Kruger, Neurobiology
2011–2012: Ronald M. Andersen, Human Services and Sociology | Wesley S. Moore, Surgery | Hartmut EF Scharfe, Sanskrit, Pali and Indic | Mel Seeman, Sociology
2010–2011: Joyce Oldham, History | Kenneth L. Karst, Law | Donald P. Tashkin, Medicine
2009–2010: Malcom Cole, Music | H. A. Cole, English | Adrzej Korbonski, Political Science | Gary Nash, History
2006–2007: Lester Breslow, Public Health | Arnold Band, Comparative Literature | Sydney Finegold, Microbiology, Immunology, Molecular Genetics
RIVERSIDE
2021–2022: n/a
2020–2021: George Haggerty, English | David Swanson, Sociology | Larry Wright, Philosophy
2019–2020: George Haggerty, English | David Swanson, Sociology | Larry Wright, Philosophy
2018–2019: Carlos Cortés, History | Howard Friedman, Psychology | Jonathan Turner, Sociology
2017–2018: David Fairris, Economics | Susan Hackwood, Electrical Engineering | Wendy Rogers, Dance
2016–2017: Wendy Ashmore, Anthropology
2015–2016: Lawrence Harper, Mathematics | Susan Carter, Economics
2014–2015: Richard Sutch, Economics | Roger Ransom, History | Malempati Rao, Mathematics
2013–2014: Irwin Wall, History | Michael Pollak, Physics & Astronomy | Ronald Chilcote, Economics
2012–2013: Kaathleen Montgomery, Business
2011–2012: George Slusser, Comparative Literature | Ben Stoltzfus, Comparative Literature
2010–2011: Edward Platzner, Nematology and Biology
2009–2010: Passanta Pattaik, Economics
2008–2009: Frederick K. Gable, Music
2007–2008: Mir S. Mulla, Entomology
SAN DIEGO
2020–2021: Jeanne Ferrante Computer Science and Engineering | Laurence Brunton, Pharmacology
2019–2020 James Dunford, Emergency Medicine | Morton Printz, Pharmacology
2018–2019: Joel Dimsdale, Psychiatry | Henry C. Powell, Pathology
2017–2018: Marguerite Jackson, Family and Preventive Medicine | Cecil Lytle, Music | John Wheeler, Chemistry and Biochemistry
2015–2016: Ruth Covell, Family Medicine and Public Health | Charles Kennel, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
2016–2017: David Bailey, Pathology | Ann Craig, Political Science | David Miller, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2014–2015: Jack C. Fisher, Surgery | Wayne Cornelius, Political Science
2013–2014: Richard Somerville, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
2012–2013: Melvin H. Green, Biology
2011–2012: Marjorie Caserio, Chemistry | Lea Rudee, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2007–2008: Kurt Benirschke, Pathology | Sandy Lakoff, Political Science
2010–2011: Jerry Schneider, Pediatrics
2008–2009: Peter Farrell, Music | Robert Hamburger, Pediatrics
SAN FRANCISCO
2013–2014: Michael Thaler, Educator, Scientist, Physician, Historian
2010–2011: Dilworth Cannon, Orthopedic Surgery | Nancy Bly, Physics; Therapy | Ernest Newbrun, School of Dentistry | Edward Sikles, Radiology
SANTA BARBARA
2021–2022: Francisco Lomeli, Spanish & Portuguese and Chicano Studies | Michael Furlong, Education
2020–2021: Howard Giles, Communication
2019–2020: Oliver Chadwick, Earth Science
2018–2019: Alice Condodina, Theater and Dance
2017–2018: Michael Jochim, Anthropology
2016–2017: Sandra Thompson, Linguistics
2015–2016: Arthur Sylvester, Earth Sciences
2013–2014: Sanjit Mitra, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2012–2013: Alice Condadina, Theatre and Dance | Steven Fisher, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
2011–2012: Daniel Morse, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology
2010–2011: Mark Rose, English
2008–2009: Ursula Mahlendorf, Germanic, Slavic, Semitic Studies
2009–2010: William Forge, Philosophy
2007–2008: Melvyn Semmel, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
2006–2007: Daniel Hone, Physics
2005–2006: Roberto Collins, History, Culture of Sudan and East Africa
2003–2004: Barbara Voorhies, Anthropology
SANTA CRUZ
2022–2023: Kathy Foley, Art | Ed Houghton, Music | Susan Strome, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
2021–2022: Dana Frank, History | Thomas Pettigrew, Sociology | Karen Tei Yamashita, Literature
2020–2021: Shelly Errington, Anthropology | John Brown Childs, Sociology | Andrew Szasz, Sociology
2019–2020: Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Anthropology | Leta Miller, Music | Linda Burman-Hall, Music
2018–2019: Pat Zavella, Latin American and Latino Studies | Frank Bridges, Physics | Dominic Massaro, Psychology
2017–2018: Murray Baumgarten, Literature | Catherine Cooper, Psychology | E.G. Crichton, Arts
2016–2017: Lewis Watts, Arts | Charles (Chip) Lord, Arts
2013–2014: Eduardo Orias, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
2011–2012: Bruce Bridgeman, Psychology and Psychobiology | Jonathan Beecher, History
2010–2011: George Brown, Physics | Donald Wiberg, Electrical Engineering
2006–2007: Harold Widom, Mathematics
2020-2021: Robert E. Bergman, Chemistry | Hugh Richmond, English
2019-2020: David Bogy, Mechanical Engineering | Robert Glaeser, Molecular and Cell Biology
2018-2019: Jan de Vries, History | Christina Maslach, Psychology
2017-2018: Mary Ann Mason, Social Welfare | Kenneth Polse, Optometry
2016–2017: John Casida, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management | Jack Kirsch, Molecular and Cell Biology
2015-2016: Joel Altman, English | Carols Munoz Jr., Ethnic Studies
2014-2015: Alan H. Nelson, English | Joseph W. Wolf, Mathematics
2013–2014: Jerry Cradock, Spanish and Portuguese | John M. Prausnitz, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2012–2013: Arlie Hochschild, Sociology
2011–2012: C. Roger Glassey, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
2008–2009: Robert Sawyer, Mechanical Engineering
2007–2008: Joseph Duggan, French
DAVIS
2021–2022: Howard Ferris, Entomology and Nematology | Fredric Gorin, Neurology | Halifu Osumare, African American and African Studies
2020–2021: Suad Joseph, Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies | Robert "Bob" Rucker, Nutrition
2019–2020: Gyöngy Laky, Art
2018–2019: Caroline Chantry, Pediatrics | Anthony Philipps, School of Medicine
2017–2018: Peter Hays | Martha Macri | Frederic Troy
2016–2017 : Brian Higgins | Gerald Kost | Bruce Lyeth
2015–2016: Roy Bellhorn | Nicole Woolsey Biggart | John Meeks | Dennis Wilson
2014–2015: Dan Anderson, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | Hugh Dingle, Entomology | Martha Macri, Native American Studies | Peter Schiffman, Geology
2013–2014: William Jackson, Chemistry | Bill Lasley, School of Medicine | James Murphy, English | Cal Qualset, Plant Sciences
2012–2013: George Bruening, Plant Pathology | Robert Rucker, Nutrition | James Seiber, Food Science and Technology | Yin Yeh, Applied Science
2011–2012: Peter Hays, English | Don Price, History | Kurt Kreith, Mathematics | Charles Halsted, Internal Medicine and Nutrition
2010–2011: Robert Derlet and Charles Goldman, Limnology | Karen M. Reiser, UCD Health System | Robbin W. Thorp, Entomology
2009–2010: n/a
2008–2009: Emanual Epstein, Plant Physiology
2007–2008: Verne Mendel, Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
2006–2007: Richard Walters, Computer Science and Medical Informatics
IRVINE
2012–2013: J. Hillis Miller, English
2011–2012: Keith L. Nelson, History
2009–2010: Robert Folkenflick, English Literature | Ellen Greenberger, Physiology and Human Behavior
2006–2007: Barbara Hamkalo, Microbiology and Biochemistry | Lyman Porter, Business
2003–2004: Harold Moore, Chemistry | Spencer Olin, History
LOS ANGELES
2023-2024: Alan J. Ardell, Material Sciences and Engineering | Thomas J. Coates, Medicine | Robert Ettenger, Pediatrics | Teofilo Ruiz, History, Spanish and Portuguese
2020–2021: Benjamin Bonavida, Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics | Warwick Peacock, Neurosurgery | Donald Shoup, Urban Planning
2019–2020: Christopher Cooper Medicine & Physiology | Kendall Houk Chemistry & Biochemistry | Pamela Munro Linguistics
2018–2019: Richard L. Abel, Law | Ivan Berend, History | James Cherry, Pediatrics
2016–2017: Robert Bjork, Psychology | E. Richard Stiehm, Pediatrics | Martin Wachs, Urban Planning
2017–2018: William A.V. Clark, Geography | Rita Effros, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Judea Pearl, Computer Science
2013–2014: Eric Fonkalsrud, Pediatric Surgery | Howard Suber, Film, Theater and Television
2012–2013: Charlotte Neuman, Public Health | Vuvian Sobchack, Theatre Arts | Lawrence Kruger, Neurobiology
2011–2012: Ronald M. Andersen, Human Services and Sociology | Wesley S. Moore, Surgery | Hartmut EF Scharfe, Sanskrit, Pali and Indic | Mel Seeman, Sociology
2010–2011: Joyce Oldham, History | Kenneth L. Karst, Law | Donald P. Tashkin, Medicine
2009–2010: Malcom Cole, Music | H. A. Cole, English | Adrzej Korbonski, Political Science | Gary Nash, History
2006–2007: Lester Breslow, Public Health | Arnold Band, Comparative Literature | Sydney Finegold, Microbiology, Immunology, Molecular Genetics
RIVERSIDE
2021–2022: n/a
2020–2021: George Haggerty, English | David Swanson, Sociology | Larry Wright, Philosophy
2019–2020: George Haggerty, English | David Swanson, Sociology | Larry Wright, Philosophy
2018–2019: Carlos Cortés, History | Howard Friedman, Psychology | Jonathan Turner, Sociology
2017–2018: David Fairris, Economics | Susan Hackwood, Electrical Engineering | Wendy Rogers, Dance
2016–2017: Wendy Ashmore, Anthropology
2015–2016: Lawrence Harper, Mathematics | Susan Carter, Economics
2014–2015: Richard Sutch, Economics | Roger Ransom, History | Malempati Rao, Mathematics
2013–2014: Irwin Wall, History | Michael Pollak, Physics & Astronomy | Ronald Chilcote, Economics
2012–2013: Kaathleen Montgomery, Business
2011–2012: George Slusser, Comparative Literature | Ben Stoltzfus, Comparative Literature
2010–2011: Edward Platzner, Nematology and Biology
2009–2010: Passanta Pattaik, Economics
2008–2009: Frederick K. Gable, Music
2007–2008: Mir S. Mulla, Entomology
SAN DIEGO
2020–2021: Jeanne Ferrante Computer Science and Engineering | Laurence Brunton, Pharmacology
2019–2020 James Dunford, Emergency Medicine | Morton Printz, Pharmacology
2018–2019: Joel Dimsdale, Psychiatry | Henry C. Powell, Pathology
2017–2018: Marguerite Jackson, Family and Preventive Medicine | Cecil Lytle, Music | John Wheeler, Chemistry and Biochemistry
2015–2016: Ruth Covell, Family Medicine and Public Health | Charles Kennel, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
2016–2017: David Bailey, Pathology | Ann Craig, Political Science | David Miller, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2014–2015: Jack C. Fisher, Surgery | Wayne Cornelius, Political Science
2013–2014: Richard Somerville, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
2012–2013: Melvin H. Green, Biology
2011–2012: Marjorie Caserio, Chemistry | Lea Rudee, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2007–2008: Kurt Benirschke, Pathology | Sandy Lakoff, Political Science
2010–2011: Jerry Schneider, Pediatrics
2008–2009: Peter Farrell, Music | Robert Hamburger, Pediatrics
SAN FRANCISCO
2013–2014: Michael Thaler, Educator, Scientist, Physician, Historian
2010–2011: Dilworth Cannon, Orthopedic Surgery | Nancy Bly, Physics; Therapy | Ernest Newbrun, School of Dentistry | Edward Sikles, Radiology
SANTA BARBARA
2021–2022: Francisco Lomeli, Spanish & Portuguese and Chicano Studies | Michael Furlong, Education
2020–2021: Howard Giles, Communication
2019–2020: Oliver Chadwick, Earth Science
2018–2019: Alice Condodina, Theater and Dance
2017–2018: Michael Jochim, Anthropology
2016–2017: Sandra Thompson, Linguistics
2015–2016: Arthur Sylvester, Earth Sciences
2013–2014: Sanjit Mitra, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2012–2013: Alice Condadina, Theatre and Dance | Steven Fisher, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
2011–2012: Daniel Morse, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology
2010–2011: Mark Rose, English
2008–2009: Ursula Mahlendorf, Germanic, Slavic, Semitic Studies
2009–2010: William Forge, Philosophy
2007–2008: Melvyn Semmel, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
2006–2007: Daniel Hone, Physics
2005–2006: Roberto Collins, History, Culture of Sudan and East Africa
2003–2004: Barbara Voorhies, Anthropology
SANTA CRUZ
2022–2023: Kathy Foley, Art | Ed Houghton, Music | Susan Strome, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
2021–2022: Dana Frank, History | Thomas Pettigrew, Sociology | Karen Tei Yamashita, Literature
2020–2021: Shelly Errington, Anthropology | John Brown Childs, Sociology | Andrew Szasz, Sociology
2019–2020: Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Anthropology | Leta Miller, Music | Linda Burman-Hall, Music
2018–2019: Pat Zavella, Latin American and Latino Studies | Frank Bridges, Physics | Dominic Massaro, Psychology
2017–2018: Murray Baumgarten, Literature | Catherine Cooper, Psychology | E.G. Crichton, Arts
2016–2017: Lewis Watts, Arts | Charles (Chip) Lord, Arts
2013–2014: Eduardo Orias, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
2011–2012: Bruce Bridgeman, Psychology and Psychobiology | Jonathan Beecher, History
2010–2011: George Brown, Physics | Donald Wiberg, Electrical Engineering
2006–2007: Harold Widom, Mathematics