The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award

The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others; and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning.

We congratulate the 2013 Cross Scholars, who were introduced to the AAC&U audience at AAC&U's 2013 Annual Meeting:

• Atnreakn Alleyne, Political Science, University of Delaware
• Fiona Barnett, Literature, Duke University
• Milagros Castillo-Montoya, Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Sarah Lang, Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University
• Justin Lomont, Chemistry, University of California–Berkeley
• Laurie A. Pinkert, English, Purdue University
• Gina Spitz, Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

The awards are named in honor of K. Patricia Cross, David Gardner Professor of Higher Education, Emerita, at the University of California, Berkeley.  From 1996 through 2005, the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards were administered by the American Association for Higher Education, where Professor Cross had served as Chair of AAHE’s Board of Directors.

Recipients of the 2012 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:

• Benjamin L. Castleman, Quantitative Policy Analysis, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
• Sarah L. Eddy, Zoology, Oregon State University
• Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, Communication Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Alexander Igor Olson, American Culture, University of Michigan
• Ashley E. Palmer, Sociology, Baylor University
• Ghanashyam Sharma, Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville
• Martha Althea Webber, English (Writing Studies), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• Timothy Wong, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

Recipients of the 2011 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards:

• Adam Bush, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
• Edmond Chang, English, University of Washington
• Keary Engle, Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
• Michelle Gaffey, Literature, Duquesne University
• Sam Potolicchio, American Government, Georgetown University
• Chera Reid, Higher Education, New York University
• Cara Robinson, Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Delaware
• Jennifer Veilleux, Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago

Recipients of the 2010 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards:

• Netta Avineri, Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
• Shauna K.Carlisle, Social Welfare, University of Washington
• Judith Flores Carmona, Sociology of Education, University of Utah
• Elizabeth Hoover, Anthropology, Brown University
• Ilana Kramer, Clinical Psychology, Long Island University
• Jonathan P. Rossing, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Indiana University
• Jentery Sayers, English, University of Washington
• Wendy Wagner, College Student Personnel Administration, University of Maryland
• Holly F. West, Higher and Postsecondary Education, New York University
  

Recipients of the 2009 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards:

• Holly Bruland, English, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
• Cara Gormally, Plant Biology, University of Georgia
• Mitchel T. Keller, Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Tessa Lowinske Desmond, Literary Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Tamara Mann, History, Columbia University
• Elizabeth Munz, Communication, Purdue University
• Geoff Preidis, Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
• Marcella Runell-Hall, Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Lisa Thornhill, Language and Rhetoric, University of Washington, Seattle
• Kyle Whyte, Philosophy and American Indian Studies, Stony Brook University

Recipients of the 2008 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:

• Thomas Eatmon, Jr., Public Policy, Southern University
• Andrew Farke, Vertebrate Anatomy / Paleontology, Stony Brook University
• Kyle Gobrogge, Neuroscience, Florida State University
• Frances Gratacos, Molecular Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/Rutgers
• Jennifer Lavy, Theatre History and Criticism, University of Washington
• Christine Reiser, Anthropology, Brown University
• Paul Rogers, Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Cindy Spurlock, Communication Studies, University of North Carolina
• Kimberly Van Orman, Philosophy, University at Albany, SUNY
• Dumaine Williams, Pharmacology, Stony Brook University
  

Recipients of the 2007 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:

• Kasey Baker, English, University of Tennessee
• Bethany Bowling, Interdisciplinary Studies - Biology Education, University of Cincinnati
• Amy Cass, Sociology, University of Delaware
• Stephanie Milling-Robbins, Dance and Women's Studies, Texas Woman's University
• Evelyn Perry, Sociology, Indiana University
• Margaret Post, Social Policy, Brandeis University
• Tarsem Purewal, Computer Science, University of Georgia
• Sarah Wise, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder
  

Recipients of the 2006 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:

• Derek Cabrera, Education, Cornell University
• Michael Coyle, Justice Studies, Arizona State University
• Emily Fairchild, Sociology, Indiana University
• Molly Beth Kerby, Educational Administration, Educational Leadership, and Organizational Development, University of Louisville
• Diane Nutbrown, Inorganic Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Regina Praetorius, Human Resource Education, Louisiana State University
• Victor Raymond, Sociology, Iowa State University
• Joan Shin, Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Ian Stewart, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

About K. Patricia Cross
K. Patricia Cross is Professor of Higher Education Emerita of the University of California at Berkeley, as well as an author of seven books on classroom teaching, learning, and assessment. Her distinguished career in higher education began as Assistant Dean of Women at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, then continued as Dean of Students at Cornell. She served as Distinguished Research Scientist at the Educational Testing Service; Professor and Chair of the Department of Administration, Planning, and Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and then as David Pierpont Gardner Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Cross is a member of the National Academy of Education and twice served as chair of the Board of the American Association for Higher Education.  She is a former board member for The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Berkeley Public Library, and Elderhostel (now known as Road Scholar).

For more information, contact Suzanne Hyers at (202) 387-3760 or hyers@aacu.org.