Roy Gardner Award

In memory of Provost Professor Roy Gardner, a cherished colleague and teacher, West European Studies is establishing an annual Roy Gardner Best Master’s Thesis Award. Professor Gardner sat on more WEST thesis committees than any other faculty member in WEST history, and was an integral and active member of the West European Studies faculty and community.

A well known academic, Professor Gardner specialized in game theory and worked in fields as diverse as European integration, post Soviet economies, environmental economics, and many others. He was on the editorial board of a number of academic journals, and was academic director of the MA program in economics at the Ukranian National University. Despite being an in-demand academic with a busy international schedule, Dr. Gardner was always available to students and was willing and eager to assist whenever he could. To view our memorial page with memories of Prof. Gardner from faculty, staff, collegues, and friends, click here. And if you have any memories you would like to add please e-mail west@indiana.edu.

The inaugural Gardner Award recipient is Jason Gonzalez. Jason recently completed and defended his MA thesis with Prof. Gardner as his committee chair. Of Dr. Gardner Jason recently said, "I am forever indebted to Professor Roy Gardner for his commitment as my professor, his selfless dedication as my thesiscommittee chairman, as a fellow veteran of the armed services, and most importantly as an inspiring mentor and friend.  I am infinitely blessed to have known this great man." Faculty are asked to nominate students they have worked with for consideration. The prize is currently set at $200.