Elizabethtown College Professor of Sociology, Dr. Michele Lee Kozimor, has recently been chosen as the 2023 recipient of the Carla B. Howery Award for Developing Teacher-Scholars. The award is granted yearly by the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Teaching and Learning and recognizes Kozimor’s significant contribution to the training and mentoring of future sociology leaders, which is invaluable for the health of the profession.
Dr. Kozimor will be honored at the 2023 ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on Aug. 21.
“This award means a great deal to me because I feel strongly about the power and promise of mentorship and the long-lasting impact of relationship-centered learning,” Dr. Kozimor said. “I want to instill, in our next generation of teaching-scholars, that being a serious researcher and an engaging teacher are not mutually exclusive pursuits. To effectively join myself and subject, I naturally embed my scholarship and service into my teaching.”
Dr. Michele Kozimor
Dr. Kozimor was nominated for the award by former Etown student and current Department Chair and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lebanon Valley College, Dr. Barbara Prince ’12. The Award Committee Chair determined the candidate’s demonstrated excellence in developing other teacher-scholars through letters of endorsement, the candidate’s statement of teaching philosophy, the curriculum vitae, the submission of a portfolio highlighting relevant contributions, along with various additional supporting documents.
For the past eight years, Dr. Kozimor has served as editor of ASA’s scholarly journal, Teaching Sociology, facilitating monthly virtual free teaching and learning webinars as well as mentoring graduate students through the publishing process.
Mentoring Etown students through the graduate school process and preparing them for the rigor and professional expectations they will face as graduate research and teaching assistants is an area of pride for Dr. Kozimor. For the past decade, each Etown Sociology student who has pursued graduate school under her mentorship has found their program and received funding.
The award is the latest ASA accolade earned by Dr. Kozimor, who was also chosen as the 2019 recipient of the ASA Section on Teaching and Learning Hans O. Mauksch Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Sociology.
Dr. Kozimor was also the second recipient (2012) of the Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars Award from the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and the 2018-2019 recipient of the Kreider Prize for Teaching Excellence at Elizabethtown College.
About the Carla B. Howery Award for Developing Teacher-Scholars Award
The award was named for Dr. Carla Beth Howery in 2009, who was a champion for teaching and learning in sociology, an advocate for providing teaching training for graduate students, and a maverick for integrating ways to enhance the experience of sociology for undergraduate and graduate students.
