The Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia on March 17, 2015 honored five finalists for the 2014 Professor of the Year Award which honors an outstanding faculty member at a West Virginia college or university. PIASA member, Lisa Di Bartolomeo, was named First Runner-up for this honor and received a cash award of $2,500.

Dr. Di Bartolemeo is the Armand E. and Mary W. Singer Professor in the Humanities and Director of Slavic and Eastern European Studies at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. Professor Di Bartolomeo was the first recipient of PIASA’s Ambassador Kazimierz Dziewanowski Memorial Dissertation Award in 2002 for her doctoral dissertation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Other Visions: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s ‘Trzy Kolory’ Trilogy.”

Our warm congratulations!