Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award
Dorothy Noyes earned her Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania and currently serves as a university distinguished scholar and as a distinguished professor of English, professor of comparative studies, and director of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University. She also holds courtesy appointments in anthropology, French and Italian, and Germanic languages and literatures. From 2005 to 2014, she directed Ohio State’s Center for Folklore Studies and created its graduate interdisciplinary specialization in Folklore, for which she designed the core curriculum. As Mershon director since 2022, she has developed the center’s cross-disciplinary mission to capture the human factor in security studies.
