KENNESAW, Ga. | Apr 15, 2026

Congratulations to Dr. Lauren MacIvor Thompson for winning KSU's 2025-2026 Outstanding Early Career Faculty award! Candidates for the award must demonstrate a sustained record of teaching, research and creative activity, and professional service. The primary criteria for the award are the impact and significance of the candidate’s work in the three areas, and some degree of integration among them at this stage of their career. Candidates must demonstrate a record of excellence and distinction in teaching, research and creative activity, and professional or community service, including mentoring of students or peers. The recipient must also demonstrate a clear record indicating a strong potential continuing to make contributions to the academy. 

Past KSU faculty award winners include:

• Stephen Bartlett - Outstanding Teaching Award (2024 - 2025)
• Caroline Conner - Outstanding Teaching Award (2023 - 2024)
• Karolin Mirzakhan - Outstanding Teaching Award (2022 - 2023)
• Jennifer Dickey - Outstanding Professional Service and Community Engagement Award (2019 - 2020)
• Katya Vladimirov - Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth Faculty Award for Distinguished International Achievement (2019 - 2020)

- Photography by Noelle Lashley for Radow College Assistant Professor of History Chosen for Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program