College Honors and University Awards
UNIVERSITY AWARDS Brian Roberts
Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award
Brian Russell Roberts specializes in US literary and cultural studies. Since arriving at BYU in 2008, he has published two scholarly monographs and two coedited collections with some of the finest presses in the fields of American literature and cultural theory. These books have focused on Black transnationalism and US cultural geography. His work has also appeared in prestigious journals including PMLA, American Literature, and American Literary History. At BYU, Roberts has been a Humanities College professor, a Humanities Center fellow, and coordinator of the American Studies program. In 2015 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Indonesia.
Cherice Montgomery
Douglas K. Christensen Teaching & Learning Faculty Fellowship
Not only is Cherice Montgomery loved and admired by her colleagues at BYU, she is also nationally recognized as an innovative and caring foreign language teacher educator and trainer. She is frequently invited to give presentations and training on professional development around the country and has received numerous teaching
awards, including the prestigious Anthony Papalia award from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in 2018. Countless students and educators have been blessed by her personal mentoring and testimony, as well as by her online wikis and articles dedicated to foreign language pedagogy.
Wendy Baker-Smemoe
Wesley P. Lloyd Award for Distinction in Graduate Education
Since her faculty appointment in 2003, Wendy Baker-Smemoe has established a remarkable record of distinguished teaching and mentoring graduate students. In addition to developing important graduate courses, BakerSmemoe has served on more than 85 thesis or dissertation committees. She has made an extraordinary difference in the lives of her students. As a prolific scholar, well-recognized by her peers, she loves to help her students become effective researchers and has coauthored important publications with many of them. Those she has mentored over the years are now leaders around the world in fields such as linguistics, education, law, and business.
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