2024 Faculty Distinguished Service Award: Lisa M. Gasbarrone

During her nearly four decades at the College, Lisa Gasbarrone, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, richly enhanced Franklin & Marshall’s quality of shared governance and campus life. Among her signal achievements, Professor Gasbarrone played a pivotal role in designing the International Studies program. In two terms as director, she held reading groups, inaugurated the Global Lunch series, partnered with students to raise human rights awareness, and organized campus visits of such notable figures as Rashid Khalidi, Nicholas Kristof, Raj Patel, Miroslav Wolf, and Nobel Prize winner Leymah Gbowee.
Read her citation for this honor bestowed at the 2024 Franklin & Marshall College Commencement ceremony: www.fandm.edu/commencement/ci...