Professor Charlotte Canning and Associate Professor Laurie Scott were recently announced as members of the for 2024–25 cohort of the Provost’s Distinguished Leadership Service Academy.
Canning, Scott and their cohort were selected for their impressive contributions at UT Austin and beyond. Each nominee has demonstrated excellence across their portfolio of work, along with an outstanding commitment to their campus and peers.
Membership comes with a one-time award of $25,000. The cohort has a five-year appointment and offers workshops and initiatives focused on service, leadership, and mentoring. The award aims to recognize and reward outstanding faculty members for extraordinary leadership service and mentoring to students, their department, their school/college, the university, and broader communities; foster and promote leadership training for UT faculty colleagues that focuses on service and mentoring-related topics; and provide opportunities for other faculty, staff and students to learn how to develop balanced professional portfolios that integrate excellence in scholarship, teaching, mentoring and service.
Canning is a professor in the Performance as Public Practice area in the Department of Theatre and Dance and the head of the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism. Canning is the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor of Drama and a recipient of the University of Texas Systems Board of Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. She won the 2016 Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book on Drama or Theater for On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism (Palgrave Macmillan) and the 2006 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History for The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance (University of Iowa Press). She has served as president of the American Society for Theatre, and she is a past chair of Faculty Council and the secretary of the General Faculty and Faculty Council.
Scott is an associate professor of Music and Human Learning and the director of The University of Texas String Project and the Musical Lives string program at UT Elementary School. Scott is a former middle and high school orchestra director, and she now mentors young professionals toward successful lives as string educators. She is co-author of Mastery for Strings and From the Stage to the Studio: How Fine Performers become Great Teachers. Scott, along with William Dick and Winifred Crock, are the co-authors of Learning Together: Sequential Repertoire for Solo Strings or String Ensembles, and they received a Creating Learning Community award for their work related to Suzuki in the Schools.