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Professor Galaty
Wins Outstanding Faculty Award
"I am very pleased to announce that Dr.
Michael Galaty, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, is this
year's recipient of the Outstanding Young Faculty Award. He will
receive a one semester release from teaching and $1000 to support
his scholarly activities.
This award seeks to recognize promising, untenured faculty in their
third, fourth, or fifth year at Millsaps and give them release time
to develop their teaching, scholarship, or artistic accomplishments.
A winner must show evidence of noteworthy teaching, exceptional
promise for scholarly or artistic accomplishment, and serious attention
to the duties and responsibilities of a faculty member.
Dr. Galaty was one of four faculty nominated for this award. All
four candidates had outstanding credentials, but after a careful
and thorough review the selection committee recommended Dr. Galaty
for the award. President Lucas-Tauchar and I were pleased to accept
the recommendation.
Dr. Galaty earned a bachelor of arts from Grinnell College (with
Honors in Anthropology), and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from
the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Since coming to Millsaps in 1999, Dr. Galaty has established himself
as a promising teacher and scholar. He is widely respected as a
caring, yet demanding teacher who consistently challenges his students.
His courses are uniformly well received by students whether he is
teaching Introduction to Anthropology, Human Origins, or LS 1000.
In addition, Dr. Galaty has been one of the leaders at Millsaps
in creating field research opportunities, taking students both to
Albania to excavate ancient Greek cities and to the Blue Ridge Mountains
to study colonial and pre-European settlements. Dr. Galaty is also
an active scholar, with one monograph, two edited volumes and numerous
published articles. His research has been supported by the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon and Leggett Foundations.
Dr. Galaty plans to use his release time to complete a book based
on the field research he has conducted in Albania, to develop a
proposal to the National Science Foundation to support his research
at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship, to complete
several articles for publication, and to dit the final cut of a
documentary film on Rose Wilder Lane.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Galaty on being selected as
this year's recipient of the Outstanding Young Faculty Award."
--Dean Richard Smith
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