{"id":802,"date":"2019-10-17T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history\/?page_id=802"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:16:22","slug":"faculty-excellence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h2>Department of History Faculty Award Winners<\/h2>\n<h3>Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia Professor of the Year<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Montserrat Miller, 2007-2008<\/p>\n<h3>Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginian Professor of the Year: Finalist<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Phillip Rutherford, 2016-2017<\/p>\n<h3>Charles E. Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Laura Michele Diener, 2023-2024<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Phillip Rutherford, 2015-2016<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Montserrat Miller, 2006 &#8211; 2007<\/p>\n<h3>Marshall &amp; Shirley Reynolds Outstanding Teacher Award<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Laura Michele Diener, 2018-2019<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Greta Rensenbrink, 2015 &#8211; 2016<\/p>\n<h3>The Outstanding Faculty Civic Engagement Award (2019 Drinko Academy Awards)<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Laura Michele Diener, 2019-2020<\/p>\n<h3>Drinko Fellowships<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Chris White, 2025<\/p>\n<h3>Marshall University Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Chris White, 2014-2015<\/p>\n<h3>Pickens-Queen Teaching Award<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Molly Mersmann 2024-2025<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Laura Michele Diener 2012-2013<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Phillip Rutherford, 2007-2008<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Montserrat Miller, 1998 &#8211; 1999<\/p>\n<h3>College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher Award<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Montserrat Miller 2008-2009<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Montserrat Miller, 2005 &#8211; 2006<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of History Faculty Award Winners Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia Professor of the Year Dr. Montserrat Miller, 2007-2008 Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginian Professor of the Year: Finalist Dr. Phillip Rutherford, 2016-2017 Charles E. Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award Dr. Laura Michele Diener, 2023-2024 Dr. Phillip Rutherford, 2015-2016 Dr. Montserrat Miller, 2006 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-802","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/802\/revisions\/1501"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}