Dr. Norman A. White Award for Engaged Scholarship and Service
The Dr. Norman A. White Award for Engaged Scholarship and Service, established in 2018, is an expression of our community’s deep gratitude for the life and work of Dr. Norm White.
Dr. White embodied Saint Louis University’s commitment to collaborative academic-community partnerships that seek to “alleviate ignorance, poverty, injustice and hunger; extend compassionate care to the ill and needy; and maintain and improve the quality of life for all persons” through engagement, dialogue, reflection and action.
Norm White came to SLU in 2004 as an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice. A scholar-activist, Norm dedicated himself to helping vulnerable children and youth in the St. Louis region flourish in the face of poverty, violence, and oppression. He was a principal architect of SLU’s Overground Railroad to Literacy Project and Shut it Down: Closing the School to Prison Pipeline, projects whose aims are to promote racial equity, to promote access to high-quality education as a fundamental public good, and to dismantle systemic racism.
Purpose of the Award
To honor and recognize a faculty member who exemplifies community-engaged scholarship and service at Saint Louis University
Eligibility
- Full-time tenured, tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty at the assistant professor level or above
- Minimum of four years full time-time employment at Saint Louis University
Criteria
A record of engaged scholarship and service through university-community partnerships that is focused on any of the following:
- Promoting healthy individuals, families, schools, organizations and communities.
- Alleviating poverty, violence, injustice, illness and inequity.
- Advocating for social justice though policies, programs, and practices that focus on dismantling systems of oppression and increasing inclusion, well-being and empowerment of vulnerable populations
Previous Award Winners
2026
- Jaime E. Welborn, School of Education
2025
- Anne K. Sebert Kuhlmann, College for Public Health and Social Justice
2024
- Kenya Brumfield-Young, School of Social Work
- Katherine Matthews, School of Medicine
2023
- Whitney Linsenmeyer, Doisy College of Health Sciences
2022
- Katie Heiden-Rootes, School of Medicine
- Fred Rottnek, School of Medicine
2021
- Tim Huffman, College of Arts and Sciences
2020
- Amber Johnson, College of Arts and Sciences
- Kira Banks, College of Arts and Sciences
2019
- Denise Hooks-Anderson, School of Medicine
2018
- Sidney D. Watson, School of Law