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Nineteen Auburn University faculty and staff will be recognized at the 2023 Auburn Author Awards ceremony on April 11 at 3:00 p.m. in the RBD Library’s Caroline Marshall Draughon Auditorium. The campus and community are invited to attend the ceremony with a reception immediately following.

The Auburn Author Awards program, co-sponsored by Auburn University Libraries and the Graduate School, recognizes faculty and staff members who published a book-length scholarly work during the previous calendar year.


The 2023 Auburn Author Award recipients are:

  • Evelyne M. Bornier, Dept. of World Languages, Literature & Cultures, College of Liberal Arts
  • Muralikrishnan Dhanasekaran, Department of Drug Discovery and Development, Harrison College of Pharmacy
  • Elijah Gaddis, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
  • David Hanning, Department of Marketing, Raymond J. Harbert College of Business
  • Matthew Hoch, Department of Music, College of Liberal Arts
  • Lisa A. W. Kensler, Department of EFLT, College of Education
  • Young-A Lee, Department of Consumer and Design Sciences, College of Human Sciences
  • David T. Marshall, Department of EFLT, College of Education
  • Margaret M. Marshall, Dept. of World Languages, Literature & Cultures, College of Liberal Arts
  • Matt Miller, School of Kinesiology College of Education
  • John C. Morris, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
  • Natalie Neugebauer, Department of EFLT, College of Education
  • Gary Anthony Piazza, Department of Drug Discovery and Development, Harrison College of Pharmacy
  • Rebecca Retzlaff, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
  • Hal Schenck, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science and Mathematics
  • David Shannon, Department of EFLT, College of Education
  • Alice E. Smith, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
  • Ya-Xiong Tao, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Deja Trammell, Department of EFLT, College of Education

The Auburn Author Awards program was resumed in 2011 after a hiatus of several years. Photos from the 2023 Auburn Author Awards ceremony will be available on the Graduate School’s Flickr account after the event.