Faculty & Affiliate Teaching Awards:
Carolyn Medine

Institute for Women's Studies affiliate faculty member Carolyn Medine was recently awarded the Sandy Beaver Award for excellence in teaching. The Sandy Beaver Awards were established in 1978 by trustees of Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville. The endowment honors Gen. Sandy Beaver, a 1903 UGA graduate who was president of Riverside for 56 years. The awards annually honor faculty in arts and sciences who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to high-quality instruction. Faculty of all ranks, but particularly those engaged in undergraduate teaching, are eligible. Each winner of the awards received a cash award of $2,800.

Dr. Medine is an Associate Professor in Religion and in the Institute for African American Studies. Her most recent work includes articles on Pinkie Gordon Lane's poetry and Albert Murray's autobiography South to a Very Old Place. "Yet With a Steady Beat: The Task of African American Biblical Hermeneutics" is forthcoming in Semia. Professor Medine is president of the American Academy of Religion section of the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. She has served as co-chair for the Arts, Literature, and Religion section of the American Academy of Religion and on its committee on ethnic and racial minority scholars in the profession. She is currently staff for two Wabash Center workshops, one for pre-tenure African American scholars in Religion and Theology that begins in summer 2002. The Wabash Center is funded by Lilly and focuses on teaching and learning in religion and theology. Professor Medine's research interests include African American religion and literature, ancient and modern literature and ethics, and postmodern and post colonial theory.