Richard Badenhausen, Ph.D
FULL-TIME StaffDean, Honors College
Honors College
Phone: 801.832.2460
Email: rbadenhausen@westminsteru.edu
Office Location: Nunemaker Place
Degrees:
Ph.D. University of Michigan Ann Arbor
M.A. University of Michigan Ann Arbor
B.A. Colgate University
About
A leader in the national Honors community, Richard Badenhausen is dean of the Honors
College. He previously served as president of the National Collegiate Honors Council
(NCHC), was a 2-time member of the NCHC Board of Directors, and an editorial board
member of HIP: Honors in Practice. He has served as an Honors consultant and reviewer
at more than 20 colleges and universities around the country and co-chaired the task
force that rewrote the national honors standards for the first time is 30 years in
2022.
Badenhausen has delivered over 70 national presentations on Honors education and regularly
publishes in journals like JNCHC: The Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council.
In 2011, he was named an NCHC Fellow; and in 2016 he received NCHC's Sam Schuman Award
for Excellence at a Four-Year Institution. Over the past 25 years, Professor Badenhausen
has published widely on the work of T. S. Eliot and modernist literature, including
T. S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration (Cambridge UP). At Westminster, he teaches
classes in the humanities, theories of place, and trauma studies. He is the 2014 recipient
of the college's Gore Excellence in Teaching award and two-time winner of Westminster's
Manford A. Shaw Publication Prize.
He is married to an attorney and has 2 children.
