| Year | Recipient | Department |
Project |
| 2024-2025 | Elizabeth Gillespie McRae | History | The Strange Career of School Choice |
| 2023-2024 | Luiz Lima Da Silveira | Biology | Firefli: An Online-based, Living Catalog of Firefly Literature |
| 2022-2023 | Ben Steere | Cherokee Studies Center |
An Archaeological Study of Ancestral Cherokee Architecture |
| 2021-2022 | Wingyan Chung | Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, and Business Law | Enhancing Organizational Agility by Modeling Business Intelligence from Textual News Data |
| 2020-2021 | Channa De Silva | Chemistry & Physics | Computational Chemistry Studies of Uranium Agents with Potential Applications in Nuclear Waste Treatments |
| 2019-2020 | Sloan Despeaux | Mathematics & Computer Science | The Educational Times Database: Exploring the Circulation of Mathematical Knowledge through Questions and Answers |
| 2018-2019 | Andrew Denson | History | Examining the relationship between WCU and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians |
| 2017-2018 | Kathy Mathews | Biology | Creating a Montane Island Plant Digital Collection for Research, Education and Conservation |
| 2016-2017 | Mimi Fenton | English | Research and Development of a "Global Humanities" Digital Resource |
| 2015-2016 | Yanjun Yan | Engineering |
Design Optimal Distributed Control Algorithms for Micro-robot Swarm |
| 2014-2015 | Channa De Silva | Chemistry |
Preparation of a Bacterial Resistant Textile Material for Clinical Applications |
| 2013-2014 | David McCord | Psychology |
Correlations among MMPI-2-RF, ASEBA, and Child Abuse Potential Inventory Scales in a Court-Ordered Sample |
| 2012-2013 | Mae Claxton | English |
Horace Kephart: Revealing an Enigma |
| 2011-2012 | Todd Collins | Political Science |
Media Coverage and Case Salience in the United States Supreme Court |
| 2010-2011 | Annette Debo | English |
Furious Flowers All: Violence and African American Women Poets |
| 2009-2010 | Elizabeth McRae | History | Defining Dixie: The Strange Career of Nell Battle |
| 2008-2009 | Marsha Lee Baker | English | Imagining Peace: American Literature in a Nonviolent Tradition |
| 2007-2008 | Hal Herzog | Psychology |
Thinking of Animals: Ethics, Culture, and Human Nature |
| 2006-2007 | Andrew Denson | History |
Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and Southern Memory |
| 2005-2006 | Katherine Mathews | Biology |
Mapping Species Distributions in the Plant Genus Sabatia (Rose Gentian) |
| 2004-2005 | Philip Coyle | Anthropology | Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of the Blue Ridge Parkway |
| 2003-2004 | Richard Starnes | History |
Creating the "Land of the Sky": Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina 1800-1900 |
| 2002-2003 | Debra Burke | Marketing & Business Law |
The Law of Hostile Working Environments |
| 2001-2002 | Penny Smith | Educational Leadership & Foundations |
Not Ordinary Graded Schools: Education in the Southern Mountains of North Carolina |
| 2000-2001 | Scott Philyaw | History |
From Old Smokey to Sedro Wooley: Western North Carolina Migration to the Pacific Northwest |
| 1999-2000 | James Costa | Biology |
Reconsidering the Insect Sociality Program |
| 1998-1999 | Robin Kowalski | Psychology | Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy |
| 1997-1998 | Julie Johnson | Business Administration, Law, & Marketing | Why Do Business Customers Defect to Competitive Suppliers |
| 1996-1997 | Elizabeth Addison | English |
Emerson's Language: George Fox as Root and Reconciliation for Emersonian Poet-Seer and Realist |
| 1995-1996 | Debra Burke | Marketing & Business Law |
Cybersmut and the First Amendment |
| 1994-1995 | Robin Kowalski | Psychology | Complaining: Antecedents, Functions, and Consequences |
| 1993-1994 | Max Williams | History |
Biography of William A. Graham |
| 1992-1993 | Gayle Miller | English |
The Image of the Cave: Medieval Women Who Write from Enclosure |
| 1991-1992 | Hal Herzog | Psychology |
The Philosophy and Psychology of Moral Valuations: The Case of Animals |
| 1990-1991 | Not Awarded | N/A |
N/A |
| 1989-1990 | William Anderson | History |
Cherokee History and Removal and a Compilation of Cherokee Names |
| 1988-1989 | Gordon McKinney | History |
The Vance Papers |
The Hunter Scholar award was created in 1987 to encourage faculty scholarship. Hunter Scholar rewards faculty whose research makes extensive use of library collections. The award is jointly sponsored by Hunter Library, Graduate School and Research Office, Distance and Continuing Education, and the Office of the Provost. The Hunter Scholar is designated yearly among faculty (either tenured or tenure-track).
For additional information and to apply for the Hunter Scholar Award, please go to the Research Office’s Hunter Scholar Awards page.
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