Faculty

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)/Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in Planning

• 2008 Ralph Buehler

Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in Nuclear Security

• 2017-18 Patrick Roberts

Fulbright Fellows

• 1995  Timothy W. Luke   

Institute of International Education, Scholar Rescue Fund Outstanding Service Award

• 2011 Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Institute of International Education, Scholar Rescue Fund Vartan Gregorian Research Grant

• 2022 Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Michael Brill Award in Urban Communication and Environmental Design, EDRA and Urban Communication Foundation

• 2014 Shalini Misra

National Academy of Public Administration Fellows

• 2019 Joyce Barr

National Academy of Sciences Keck Futures Initiative Award for the “best minds in the study of Human-Technology Interfaces

• 2017 Shalini Misra

National Science Foundation Awards

• 2019 NSF CAREER Award: Steve Hankey

Transportation Research Board of the National Academies Best Paper on a Topic Addressing Climate Change Issues

• 2014 Ralph Buehler

Transportation Research Board of the National Academies Outstanding Paper Award:

• 2016 Steve Hankey

Academy of Faculty Service

• 2015 Diane Zahm

Academy of Teaching Excellence

• 1988 Timothy W. Luke

Alumni Awards for Excellence in Research

• 1998 Timothy W. Luke
• 2021 David Bieri

College Award for Outreach Excellence (given by the Center for Outreach and International Affairs)

• 2021 Mary Beth Dunkenberger

University Certificate for Excellence in Teaching 

• 1987  Timothy W.  Luke
• 1998  Timothy W. Luke
• 2008 Diane Zahm
• 2019 Thomas Skuzinski

University Distinguished Professor

• 1999 Timothy W. Luke

William E. Wine Award

• 1988 Timothy W. Luke

The School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) received the 2020 Virginia Tech Exemplary Department or Program Award for the theme of developing and sustaining effective approaches to teaching with a global perspective at the graduate or undergraduate levels.

CAUS Certificate for Career Achievement

• 2021 Ralph Buehler

CAUS Certificate for Excellence in Outreach

• 2010 Diane Zahm
• 2019 Leisha LaRiviere
• 2020 Todd Schenk and Stephanie Davis

CAUS Certificate for Excellence in Scholarship (with Graduate School)

• 2012 Ralph Buehler
• 2013 Patrick Roberts
• 2017 Max Stephenson
• 2019 Ariel Ahram
• 2020 Steve Hankey
• 2022 Shalini Misra

CAUS Certificate for Excellence in Teaching

• 1993 Max Stephenson
• 1999 Diane Zahm
• 2017 Robin Lemaire
• 2018 Steve Hankey
• 2019 Shalini Misra
• 2020 Ariel Ahram
• 2021 Theo Lim

CAUS Diversity Recognition Award

• 2019 Thomas Skuzinski
• 2021 Cecily Rodriguez

CAUS Lifetime Contribution Award

• 2018 John Browder, UAP (posthumous)

CAUS/Graduate School Outstanding Mentor Award

• 2018 Max Stephenson 

CAUS Ut Prosim Award

• 2022 Yang Zhang

American Political Science Association, Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award, New Political Science Section

• 2014 Timothy W. Luke

American Political Science Association’s Certificate for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, Pi Sigma Alpha

• 1998 Timothy W. Luke
• 2002 Timothy W. Luke
• 2010 Timothy W. Luke

American Political Science Association’s  Leonard D. White award for the best dissertation in the field of public administration

• 2020 Chad Levinson

American Political Science Association, Christian Bay Award for the Best Paper,  New Political Science Section

• 1997  Timothy W. Luke

Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association,  Australasian Journal of American Studies,  Norman Harper Award for the Best Article, 1996-1998

• 1998 Timothy W. Luke

American Planning Association, College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners

• 2018 Diane Zahm

APA Small Town and Rural Division Jim Segedy Outstanding Student Project Award

• 2009 Diane Zahm studio classes

APA Virginia Chapter Student Planning Award for “What Would Floyd Be Like . . .?” studio project

• 2013 Diane Zahm studio class

APA Virginia Faculty of the Year

• 2017 Steve Hankey

Transportation Research Board of the National Academies Appreciation for Service as Chair of the Committee on Bicycle Transportation

• 2018 Ralph Buehler

Golden Key Honor Society Outstanding Academic Achievement Award

• 2007 Shalini Misra

Outstanding Undergraduate Mentorship Award, University of California Irvine

• 2007 Shalini Misra

Thomson Reuters' Essential Science Indicators citation analysis designated the Stokols, Misra, Moser, Hall, & Taylor (2008) paper to be “one of the most cited papers” in the research area of transdisciplinary research (Shalini Misra)

(Shalini Misra) iPhone Effect paper is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. Altmetric has tracked 7,012,673 research outputs across all sources so far. It is ranked # 4 among 710 outputs from the journal Environment & Behavior. Its “Attention Score” is in the 99th percentile of all outputs of the same age. https://sage.altmetric.com/details/2484111#twitter-demographics

International Studies Association,  Distinguished Scholar Award 'Transversal Acts,’ STAIR (Science, Technology, and the Arts in International Relations) Section

• 2021 Timothy W. Luke

International Studies Association-Northeast, LeRoy Bennett Award for the Best Paper

• 1998 Timothy W. Luke

Western Political Science Association, Best Paper in Environmental Political Theory

• 2014 Timothy W. Luke

Western Political Science Association,  Tenth Anniversary Roundtable Honors for Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) one of three “Great Works in Environmental Political Theory,” Environmental Political Theory Group

• 2012 Timothy W. Luke

American Institute of Contemporary German Studies Fellow

• 2012 Ralph Buehler

ASPECT (Virginia Tech Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural Thought Doctoral program) Outstanding Faculty Award, for excellence from 2008-2013 ).

• 2013 Max Stephenson
• 2013 Timothy W. Luke

E-Learning Pioneer Award, Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• 2007 Timothy W. Luke

X-Caliber Award, Center for Innovation in Learning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• 2002  Timothy W. Luke

E-Learning Design Award, The Online Academy/Center for Research on Learning, University of Kansas

• 2000  Timothy W. Luke

 The Anniversary Award for the Best Article, 1997, Environment and Planning A, Pion Limited, London

• 1998  Timothy W. Luke

 Recognized by the Virginia Tech Dean of Students Office as a faculty member who provides a welcoming environment for students with disabilities (“Disability Honor Roll”)

• 2005, 2006 Diane Zahm

Named Citizen Emerita of the Town of Fincastle, Virginia, for meritorious service and in grateful appreciation for contributions to the community

• 2002 Diane Zahm

Visiting Professor in Governance, Shandong University, 2019 Max Stephenson

Visiting Hai-Tien (Sea-Sky) Scholar in Governance, Dalian University of Technology, 2018-2021 Max Stephenson