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Outstanding Faculty Award

The CALS Alumni Association's Outstanding Faculty Award recognizes CALS full professors who have made outstanding contribution to the College in one or more of the following areas: teaching, research, extension, and/or administration.

 

Click here for this year's Outstanding Faculty Award winner. Past winners are listed below.

2022 Recipient

Kathryn Gleason '97

Kathryn Gleason (BS ’79) was raised in Southampton, Long Island and completed high school in La Grange, Illinois before coming to Cornell to study landscape architecture. Interested in the history of the discipline, she went on to the Harvard Graduate School of Design for her Master of Landscape Architecture (’83).  A Fulbright Fellowship led her to study landscape archaeology (D.Phil ’89) at Oxford University, during which time she received a Rome Prize to the American Academy in Rome.  Her first teaching position was at the University of Pennsylvania (1988-1996), where she co-directed her first archaeological dig at Caesarea, Israel while teaching students to design the ruins for tourism at the national park.  Service on the Cornell Landscape Architecture Alumni Advisory Board attracted her to the idea of returning to Ithaca, which she did in 1996 and has remained ever since.  During a post-doctoral fellowship at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem, she met her husband, fellow archaeologist, Jeffrey Zorn, and they have a son, Noah Zorn.

Dr. Gleason Professor of Landscape Architecture and on the faculty of the Cornell Institute for Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS).  Her digs at Cornell include Horace’s Villa at Licenza, Italy, the Villa Arianna at Stabiae, and, currently, the Casa della Regina Carolina Project at Pompeii.  At Cornell she teaches basic design, engaged community studios, and landscape history. In 2005 she initiated landscape architecture’s participation in the Cornell-Shanghai Jiao Tong exchange.

A widely published and award-winning author, she edited The Archaeology of Garden and Field (with Naomi F. Miller, 1994), A Cultural History of Gardens in Antiquity (2013), the Final Report of the 2008-2012 Excavations of the Great Peristyle of the Villa Arianna (with Thomas Howe, Ian Sutherland, and Michele Palmer, 2018), and The Gardens of the Roman Empire (2018), which received the 2020 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award for Landscape History from the Society of Architectural Historians. Her seniority in the field has been recognized with her national 2012 Honor in Research Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), elevation to Fellow of the ASLA, the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (Upstate NY ASLA), and Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks. She retired from active teaching Oct. 15, 2022 to complete publication of her archaeological projects.

 

Recipients Prior to 2022

CALS Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award Recipients Prior to 2022.

LastFirstClass YearYear Won
GleasonKathryn19972022
MoraruCarmen 2021
McLaughlinEdward 2020
LewensteinBruce 2019
WatkinsChristopher 2018
Padilla-ZakourOlgaMS '88, PhD '912017
CollmerAlanPhD '812016
SmithMargaret78, PhD '822015
HudlerGeorge 2014
DillardHelene 2013
BrownSusan 2012
PrittsMarvin 2012
MillerDennis PhD '782011
ScottNormanPhD '622011
GaltonDavid 2010
TrowbridgePeter 2010
EarleBrian1967, MPS '712009
WalkerLarry 2009
CalvoJoseph 2008
Pinstrup-AndersenPer 2008
EarleElizabeth "Lisa" 2007
RoelofsWendell 2007
McCouchSusanPhD '902006
PlaistedRobert19502006
SislerDanielPhD '622005
Wu*RaymondPA2005
CoffmanW. RonniePhD '712004
EisnerThomas & Maria 2004
BrumstedHarlan19542003
Foote*RobertMS '47, PhD '502003
SchauflerErnest1948, MS '522002
Wilkins*Bruce19522002
ChurchRichard19642001
Trimberger*George1965, MBA '662001
BaumanDale 2000
RobinsonKenneth 2000
HintzHarold19611999
SterlingJohn19591999
CallDavid19541998
Munger*Henry19361998
AplinRichard19511997
ButlerW. Ronald  
ConnemanGeorge 1996
StantonBernard19491996