Two Lynchburg College professors have received awards for excellence in teaching and advising. Dr. Phillip H. Stump, professor of history, has been named the 2007 recipient of the Shirley E. Rosser Excellence in Teaching Award, and Dr. David R. Perault, associate professor of environmental science, has been awarded the 2007-08 Thomas C. Allen Award for Excellence in Academic Advising.
Named for a 1940 graduate who served the College as a physics professor for 45 years, the Rosser Award honors LC professors who exhibit extraordinary dedication to student learning. The award is determined from nominations by students, who also participate in the selection process.
The Allen advising award recognizes advisors who maintain and exceed standards of outstanding advising and is named in honor of a beloved English professor who died in 2006.
Dr. Stump joined the Lynchburg College faculty in 1980. The first John Mills Turner Distinguished Chair in the Humanities, he has received numerous grants and awards, including the James A. Huston Award for Excellence in Scholarship. He teaches history courses on every level, including Honors courses, and he directs senior theses.
Dr. Stump specializes in fifteenth century medieval history and has researched and published on the subject. Other interests include world history, comparative history, women’s history, cross cultural exchanges, church history, ideas of reform, Greek history, and Roman history.
He earned his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles and was a fellow at the Institute for Medieval Canon Law at the University of California at Berkley. While working on his doctoral dissertation, he did advanced study at Tübingen University in Germany.
Dr. Perault joined the Lynchburg College faculty in 1998, and since that time has served as advisor and mentor to numerous LC students.
An environmentalist and a scholar, Dr. Perault has published work on varied subjects within the field of environmental science, and he has received a number of grants for research. His teaching and research interests include environmental science, conservation biology, landscape ecology, biogeography, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, spatially explicit modeling, and natural resources management.
Dr. Perault earned his B.A. in environmental science from the University of Virginia, his M.S. in wildlife biology from Utah State University, and his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Oklahoma.