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