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.
Last | First | Class Year | Year Won |
Gleason | Kathryn | 1997 | 2022 |
Moraru | Carmen | 2021 | |
McLaughlin | Edward | 2020 | |
Lewenstein | Bruce | 2019 | |
Watkins | Christopher | 2018 | |
Padilla-Zakour | Olga | MS '88, PhD '91 | 2017 |
Collmer | Alan | PhD '81 | 2016 |
Smith | Margaret | 78, PhD '82 | 2015 |
Hudler | George | 2014 | |
Dillard | Helene | 2013 | |
Brown | Susan | 2012 | |
Pritts | Marvin | 2012 | |
Miller | Dennis | PhD '78 | 2011 |
Scott | Norman | PhD '62 | 2011 |
Galton | David | 2010 | |
Trowbridge | Peter | 2010 | |
Earle | Brian | 1967, MPS '71 | 2009 |
Walker | Larry | 2009 | |
Calvo | Joseph | 2008 | |
Pinstrup-Andersen | Per | 2008 | |
Earle | Elizabeth "Lisa" | 2007 | |
Roelofs | Wendell | 2007 | |
McCouch | Susan | PhD '90 | 2006 |
Plaisted | Robert | 1950 | 2006 |
Sisler | Daniel | PhD '62 | 2005 |
Wu* | Raymond | PA | 2005 |
Coffman | W. Ronnie | PhD '71 | 2004 |
Eisner | Thomas & Maria | 2004 | |
Brumsted | Harlan | 1954 | 2003 |
Foote* | Robert | MS '47, PhD '50 | 2003 |
Schaufler | Ernest | 1948, MS '52 | 2002 |
Wilkins* | Bruce | 1952 | 2002 |
Church | Richard | 1964 | 2001 |
Trimberger* | George | 1965, MBA '66 | 2001 |
Bauman | Dale | 2000 | |
Robinson | Kenneth | 2000 | |
Hintz | Harold | 1961 | 1999 |
Sterling | John | 1959 | 1999 |
Call | David | 1954 | 1998 |
Munger* | Henry | 1936 | 1998 |
Aplin | Richard | 1951 | 1997 |
Butler | W. Ronald | ||
Conneman | George | 1996 | |
Stanton | Bernard | 1949 | 1996 |