About the Award
The University of Washington Tacoma Distinguished Research Award was initiated in 2004. Given annually, the purpose of this award is to recognize a faculty member who has achieved a record of notable scholarship or creative activity, who has generated new knowledge or creativity that impacts their intellectual discipline, and who has contributed to the intellectual climate of the UW Tacoma campus and its communities. All University of Washington Tacoma faculty members are eligible.
Nomination Information
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2022 Recipient
Erin Casey, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Social Work & Criminal Justice
Dr. Casey's work has been published in more than 60 peer reviewed publications and has been cited more than 2,400 times. Casey’s research focuses on violence prevention and engaging communities in prevention strategies. Her current research examines men’s involvement in anti-sexual and domestic violence movements. Casey has over 10 years of clinical experience doing intervention, prevention and administrative work in the fields of sexual and domestic violence.
2021-2022 Committee
- Haluk Demirkan, Committee Chair, Professor
- Sharon Laing, Associate Professor
- Michael McCourt, Assistant Professor
- Amos Nascimento, Professor
- Barb Toews, Associate Professor
Past recipients
- 2021 - Haluk Demirkan, Professor, Milgard School of Business
- 2020 - Edward Kolodziej, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Seattle) and the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma)
- 2019 - Ka Yee Yeung, Associate Professor, School of Engineering & Technology
- 2018 – Eric Madfis, Associate Professor, Social Work & Criminal Justice
- 2017 - Marian Harris, Professor, Social Work & Criminal Justice
- 2016 - Carolyn West, Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
- Video: Writing the Books You Want to Read
- 2015 - Peter Horak, Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
- Video: The World of Mathematics
- 2014 - Yonn Dierwechter, Associate Professor, Urban Studies
- Presentation: Rain without thunder: City-regions and the global search for a sustainable order
- 2013 - Mike Allen, Interdiscipliary Arts and Sciences
- Presentation: I've Got Friends in Low Places: The Intellectual Life of an Anti-Intellectual
- 2012 - Divya McMillin, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
- Presentation: Producing Place: Media and Soft Power
- 2011 - Rich Furman, Social Work
- The professor and the blank page: Writing, rituals and our relationship to the written word
- 2010 - Michael Honey, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
- Presentation: All Labor Has Dignity
- 2009 - Claudia Gorbman, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
- Presentation: Listening to Movies
- 2008 - Joe Sharkey, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
- Presentation: Don't Think; Look! Language Does Things it Can't Do
- 2007 - Anthony D'Costa, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
- Presentation: WYSIWYG/D: Doing Research at UWT
- 2006 - Marcy Stein, Education
- 2005 - John Banks, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
- 2004 - Charles Emlet, Social Work
- Presentation: Aging and HIV/AIDS: Lessons Learned... Moving Forward