ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
- Only University of Florida budgeted Graduate Faculty (tenured or untenured) who supervise doctoral dissertations (Ph.D. or Ed.D.) or Master of Fine Arts theses (M.F.A.) are eligible.
- Faculty must actively support graduate education through teaching, service on graduate committees and sponsorship of student research and scholarship.
- As verified in GIMS, the nominee must have graduated (served as committee chair or co-chair) at least one doctoral or M.F.A. student during the preceding year (Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Summer 2025) AND must have graduated (served as committee chair or co-chair) at least two additional students with dissertations or M.F.A. degrees in the past five years (Fall 2020 through Summer 2025, inclusively).
- Nominations for Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Awards will be accepted from graduate students, former graduate students, faculty members, department chairs, graduate coordinators, and higher-level administrators. Individual faculty members may not nominate themselves.
- Individuals who receive a Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award during the previous three years are not eligible.
The deadline for submitting nominations is Monday, October 20. Please review the list of eligible faculty and submit your nominations here.
Eligible Faculty:
- Manuel Munoz Arreola
- Frank Bova
- Todd Brusko
- Sara Burke
- Eduardo Candelario-Jahlil
- Paramita Chakrabarty
- Benoit Giasson
- Yi Guo
- Christian Jobin
- Stephanie Karst
- Matthew Merritt
- Rolf Renne
- Eric Wang
- Mingyi Xie