Joyce Tolliver, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Director of the Center for Translation Studies, has received the highly competitive University of Illinois Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award.

The Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award recognizes “a faculty member who has provided extraordinary leadership contributions across many dimensions of shared governance (e.g., committee work, chair of task force, service in the Senate) that advance the excellence of a unit, a college, and/or the campus, and who exemplifies the campus commitment to collaborative decision-making.”

As stated by the Provost, “This award is the highest accolade honoring a faculty member whose professional service has advanced progress toward the Illinois mission.”

Tolliver also is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, and an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Global Studies and the European Union Center.