The American Association of University Professors invites nominations for the Georgina M. Smith Award, which was established in 1979 to honor the memory of an AAUP leader, Professor Georgina M. Smith (Mathematics, Rutgers), who was a committed feminist and a strong supporter of her local faculty union. The award, in the form of a certificate of recognition, will be presented at the AAUP Conference and Biennial Meeting, which occurs in even numbered years, to a person who has provided exceptional leadership in a given year in improving the status of academic women or in academic collective bargaining and through that work has improved the profession in general. The winner receives a monetary award in the amount of $500, which may be split among multiple winners.
Rather than awarding such recognition annually, the Association will reserve the distinction for those occasions when some accomplishment in either area is defined as so outstanding as to merit being specially singled out. To nominate a candidate for the award, please send by email a description of the nominee's achievements with supporting materials to Marlan Maralit. Please contact [email protected] for more information.
Recipients of the Georgina Smith Award
| 1979 | Mary W. Gray, American University |
| 1980 | Marilyn Sternberg, Adelphi University |
| 1983 | Belle Zeller, Hunter College and Professional Staff Congress |
| 1984 | Anna Penck, Western Oregon University |
| 1985 | Ruth Weyand, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| 1986 | Ralph S. Brown, Yale University |
| 1990 | Dahlia Rudavsky, Shilepsky, Messing & Rudavsky |
| 1992 | Bernice Resnick Sandler, Center for women Policy Studies |
| 1993 | Cecile Pillsbury, University of Wisconsin |
| 1994 | Ellen J. Vargyas, National Women’s Law Center |
| 1995 | Barbara R. Bergman, American University |
| 1997 | Dorothy Kovacevich, Kent State University |
| 1998 | Carole O’Neill, Emerson College |
| 2000 | Maita Levine, University of Cincinnati |
| 2002 | Keith Hoeller, Washington Part-Time Faculty Association |
| 2003 | Eileen Burchell, Marymount Chapter |
| 2004 |
Linda Backus, University of Vermont Margaret Quan, Diablo Valley College |
| 2007 | Dr. Lillian Taiz, president of the California Faculty Association and AAUP member from California State University-Los Angeles |
| 2008 | Candace Kant, College of Southern Nevada |
| 2012 | Sara Kilpatrick, executive director of the Ohio AAUP conference, and Deborah Herman, executive director of the University of Cincinnati AAUP chapter |
| 2014 | Mary King, Portland State University |
| 2015 | Barbara Hopkins, Wright State University |
| 2016 |
Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University Deanna Wood, University of New Hampshire |
| 2017 | Susan Fountain, City University of New York |
| 2018 | Deborah Smith, Kent State University |
| 2019 |
Christine Blasey Ford, Palo Alto University |
| 2020 |
Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University Catherine Moran, University of New Hampshire Anne Sisson Runyan, University of Cincinnati |
| 2022 | Caprice Lawless, Front Range Community College |