The faculty member who receives the Richard M. Hawkins Award will have made noteworthy contributions to scholarship or creative activity.
| 2013 | Andriy Kovalskyy | |
| 2012 | Kevin Harris | |
| 2011 | Sergei Markov | |
| 2010 | Jill Franks | |
| 2009 | Samuel Jator | |
| 2008 | J. Allyn Smith | |
| 2007 | Dixie Dennis | |
| 2006 | None Named | |
| 2005 | Michele T. Butts | |
| 2004 | Carlette Hardin | |
| 2003 | Allene Phy-Olsen | |
| 2002 | Stanley Yates | |
| 2001 | Roger Clark | |
| 2000 | Dewey A. Browder | |
| 1999 | Steven Ryan | |
| 1998 | Carl Stedman | |
| 1997 | DeAnn Campbell | |
| 1996 | James Michael McClusky | |
| 1995 | Victor Ukpolo | |
| 1994 | James Michael Gotcher | |
| 1993 | Albert B. Randall, Jr. | |
| 1992 | Malcom "Kip" Muir | |
| 1991 | Harvey F. Blanck | |
| 1990 | Anthony Golden | |
| 1989 | Larry Hoehn | |
| 1988 | Jeffrey Neal Wood | |
| 1987 | Ernest Woodward | |
| 1986 | Dolores Gore | |
| 1985 | Malcom Glass | |
| 1984 | Richard P. Gildrie | |
| 1983 | George L. Mabry | |
| 1982 | James X. Corgan | |
| 1981 | Olen L. Bryant | |
| 1980 | Phillip Kemmerly | |
| 1979 | Sharon Mabry |