Award Description

The UNT Creative Impact Award is given by Research and Innovation to the faculty member whose publications, performances, or exhibitions in the literary or creative arts have had the greatest societal impact.

Eligibility

  • At least five (5) years at UNT.  
  • Full‐time tenured/tenure‐track faculty member in good standing at the time of the nomination.   
  • Has not won the UNT Creative Impact Award in the past three (3) years.  
  • Complete curriculum vitae.  
  • List of the highest affiliations/awards in the discipline and with her/his professional societies/organizations.  
  • List of graduate students and postdocs mentored
  • Names of institutions of graduate mentees who are now university faculty members, if any.  
  • Names of graduate mentees now prominent in their artistic disciplines, if any. 
  •  List of up to five (5) works (exhibitions, performances, or publications) considered seminal.
  • List of articstic/literary archievements considered seminal works in the faculty member's discipline.
  • Generation of mentees into the discipline.  
  • Up to 1000 words describing the impact of the nominee's seminal work, in language understandable to persons outside the discipline.  

Nomination Procedures

Self‐nominations will not be considered. 

Submission Process

Each nomination, including any supporting materials, should be received electronically through the InfoReady Review Portal.

Selection Process

Nominations are evaluated by a panel of UNT faculty and administrators who make recommendations to the Vice President for Research and Innovation and the Provost.

Deadline

Visit Research and Innovation for deadlines and more information.

Award Recipients

YEAR FACULTY MEMBER DEPARTMENT

2022-2023

Jehanne Dubrow

English

2021-2022

Jon Christopher Nelson

Composition Studies

2020-2021

No Award Selection Recorded 

 

2019-2020

Bonnie Friedman

English

2016-2017

Matthew Bourbon

Studio Art

2015-2016

John Holt

Instrumental Studies

2014-2015

Dornith Doherty

Studio Art 

2013-2014

Bradford Leali

Jazz Studies

2012-2013

Lynn E. Seaton

Jazz Studies

2011-2012

Melinda C. Levin

Media Arts

2010-2011

Jeffrey D. Bradetich

Instrumental Studies

2009-2010

Bruce Bond

English

2008-2009

Harlan W. Butt

Studio Art