Catherine Stewart, professor of history at Cornell College, has been named the Richard and Norma Small Distinguished Professor for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 academic years.
The Small Distinguished Professorship is given to a faculty member who shows exemplary teaching, service, and scholarship, and leadership in the perpetuation of a vital and invigorating faculty community at Cornell. Stewart has taught at Cornell since 1999. She earned her Ph.D. in history from SUNY Stony Brook. She is the author of “Long Past Slavery: Race and the Federal Writers’ Ex-Slave Project During the New Deal,” which will be published by The University of North Carolina Press in spring 2016.
Previous Richard and Norma Small Distinguished Professors include James Martin, Todd Knoop, Carol Enns, and Craig Allin.
The professorship was established by Richard Small ’50 and honorary alumna Norma Thomas Small to honor the work of faculty members who have achieved the rank of full professor at Cornell College, recognizing the critical importance of the continuous, long-term commitment of a faculty community to the life of a residential liberal arts college. The Small Distinguished Professor receives an annual award of $10,000 to advance his or her scholarly endeavors.