University of Mary Washington Professor of Geography Steve Hanna was named the recipient of the 2016 Waple Faculty Professional Achievement Award at a general faculty meeting on Wednesday, April 20.
Established in honor of Shirley Van Epps Waple, a 1952 graduate of the University, the nomination-based award recognizes faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to their scholarly or creative area of expertise. The winner must have been a full-time faculty member for at least seven years.
Since joining the UMW faculty in 1997 as a senior lecturer, Hanna has risen to the rank of professor, served as chair of UMW’s Department of Geography, co-edited two books and written 17 journal articles and book chapters, in addition to a vast number of other articles that have been cited over 400 times in scholarly publications.
A human geographer by training, Hanna’s work focuses on the economic and cultural characteristics of places within the global economy. His published works include the co-edited book Mapping Tourism (2003) and articles in Progress in Human Geography; Social and Cultural Geography; ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies; Historical Geography; Urban Geography; and The Southeastern Geographer.
Most recently, Hanna recently received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to collaborate on undergraduate research with five other institutions on the topic of how slavery is portrayed in historic narratives. Through the grant, Hanna was able to employ three UMW students as research students to collaborate on the project.
Hanna received his doctorate in geography from the University of Kentucky, a master’s degree in geography from the University of Vermont and a bachelor’s degree in geography from Clark University.
Betty Bradshaw says
Congratulations Stephen.