The Hunter Scholar award was created in 1987 to encourage faculty scholarship. Hunter Scholar rewards faculty whose research makes extensive use of library collections. The award is jointly sponsored by Hunter Library, Graduate School and Research, Distance and Continuing Education, and the Office of the Provost. The Hunter Scholar is designated yearly among faculty (either tenured or tenure-track) who demonstrate a strong need for Hunter Library’s services and collections.
The award includes release time for one fall and one spring course, in addition to a full-time graduate research assistant for two semesters. Support funds (currently $400) are available to the recipient and can be used for supplies, travel, or other expenses related to the project. The Hunter Scholar will also receive a study carrel in the library for the duration of the award.
For additional information and to apply for the Hunter Scholar Award, please go to Research’s Hunter Scholar Awards page.
Hunter Scholar Recipients
| Year | Name | Program/Department | Project Title |
| 2008 | Marsha Lee Baker | English | Imagining Peace: American Literature in a Nonviolent Tradition |
| 2007 | Harold Herzog | Psychology | Thinking of Animals: Ethics, Culture and Human Nature |
| 2006 | Andrew Denson | History | Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and Southern Memory |
| 2005 | Katherine Mathews | Biology | Mapping Species Distributions in the Plant Genus Sabatia (Rose Gentian) |
| 2004 | Philip Coyle | Anthropology and Sociology | Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of the Blue Ridge Parkway |
| 2003 | Richard Starnes | History | Creating the “Land of the Sky” Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina 1800 – 1900 |
| 2002 | Debra Burke | Marketing & Business Law | The Law of Hostile Working Environments |
| 2001 | Penny Smith | Educational Leadership & Foundations College of Education & Allied Professions | Not Ordinary Graded Schools: Education in the Southern Mountains of North Carolina |
| 2000 | Scott Philyaw | History | From Old Smokey to Sedro Wooley: Western North Carolina Migration to the Pacific Northwest |
| 1999 | James Costa | Biology | Reconsidering the Insect Sociality Program |
| 1998 | Robin Kowalski | Psychology | Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy |
| 1997 | Julie T. Johnson | Business Administration, Law and Marketing | Why Business Customers Defect to Competitive Suppliers |
| 1996 | Elizabeth Addison | English | Emerson’s Language: George Fox as Root and Reconciliation for Emersonian Poet-Seer and Realist |
| 1995 | Debra D. Burke | Marketing & Business Law | Cybersmut and The First Amendment |
| 1994 | Robin Kowalski | Psychology | Complaining: Antecedents, Functions, and Consequences |
| 1993 | Max Williams | History | Biography of William A. Graham |
| 1992 | Gayle Miller | English | The Image of The Cave: Medieval Women Who Write from Enclosure |
| 1991 | Harold Herzog | Psychology | The Philosophy and Psychology of Moral Valuations: The Case of Animals |
| 1990 | No award | NA | NA |
| 1989 | Bil Anderson* | ||
| 1988 | Gordon McKinney | History | The Vance Papers |
*No record of Hunter Scholar award topic.