Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Nicholas Paul Herrmann

  • Professor at Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

Awards

2025

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor Award, Center for International Studies. March 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025

2024

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Fulbright Specialist, Fulbright Specialist Program. September 2, 2024 - September 2, 2027
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor Award, Center for International Studies. March 1, 2024 - September 30, 2024

2023

  • Award / Honor Recipient: 2023 Outstanding Mentor Award, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Anthropology Section. February 15, 2023 - February 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor Award, Center for International Studies. March 2023 - December 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor of International Studies, Center for International Studies. January 20, 2023 - September 1, 2023

2022

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Supplemental Awards Associated with Faculty Development Leave, Texas State University. August 2022 - May 2023

2019

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Excellence in Funded Research, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. August 20, 2019

2017

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Research Enhancement Program 2018, Texas State University. October 25, 2017 - December 31, 2018

2014

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Travel Award, MSU Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED), College of Arts and Sciences Academic Excellence Program. 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: The Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award, Office of Research and Economic Development, Mississippi State University. 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Patty Jo Watson Award, Southeastern Archaeological Conference. November 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Visiting Scientist Award, Forensic Anthropology Unit, New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). October 2014

2013

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Travel Award, MSU ORED, College of Arts and Sciences Academic Excellence Program. 2013
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Cross-College Research Grant, MSU ORED. 2013

2012

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Dean’s Eminent Scholar, Mississippi State University College of Arts & Sciences. 2012
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Travel Award, MSU ORED, College of Arts and Sciences Academic Excellence Program. 2012

2011

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Northeast Daily Journal Undergraduate Research Program, Faculty Advisor for Dorothy Damm, proposal entitled “Cross-sectional Geometry to Derive Biomechanical Properties of Russell Cave Skeletal Material,”. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Travel Award, MSU ORED, College of Arts and Sciences Academic Excellence Program. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Invited Participant Travel Award, National Institute of Justice Sponsored Dialogues in Forensic Science – Beyond the NAS Report, Syracuse University. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Invited Participant Travel Award, National Institute of Justice Sponsored Dialogues in Forensic Science– New Techniques for Identification. 2011

2010

  • Award / Honor Recipient: StatePride Award Recipient, Cardin Faculty Award, Mississippi State University Foundation. 2010
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Invited Participant Travel Award, National Institute of Justice Sponsored Dialogues in Forensic Science – Trauma Analysis I, Syracuse University. 2010
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Invited Participant Travel Award, National Institute of Justice Sponsored Dialogues in Forensic Science - Looking to the Future of Forensic Anthropology, Syracuse University. 2010
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Taphonomic and Environmental Research at the Mississippi State University Forensic Science Research Plot (FSRP), Cross-College Research Grant, MSU ORED. 2010
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Researcher of the Month, College of Arts and Sciences, Mississippi State University. 2010

2009

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Estimation of Element Frequency from the Morton Shell Mound (16IB3) based on Three-Dimensional Computer Tomography and the Digital Bone Atlas, Research Initiation Program, MSU ORED. 2009
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Travel Award MSU ORED, Funds for travel to Subsistence, Economy and Society in the Greek World: Improving the integration of archaeology and science. 2009

2007

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Florence Stockade aDNA Study, William M. Bass Endowment for Forensic Anthropology. 2007

2005

  • Award / Honor Recipient: William M. Bass Endowment, Forensic Anthropology Equipment Award with Joanne Devlin. 2005

1999

  • Award / Honor Nominee: William M. Bass Endowment, Forensic Anthropology Travel Scholarship. 1999
  • Award / Honor Recipient: The W. K. McClure Fund for the Study of World Affairs Scholarship, University of Tennessee. 1999

1998

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Sigma Xi Graduate Student Paper Competition, Second Place in Social Science Division, University of Tennessee Sigma Xi Chapter. 1998
  • Award / Honor Recipient: J. Lawrence Angel Award from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences with Lauren L. Rockhold and Joanne L. Bennett for poster entitled “What fracture is it?”, Casework from East Tennessee. 1998

1992

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Smithsonian Institution, Ten Week Graduate Student Fellowship, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology. 1992

1988

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Field Internship, University of Chicago Archaeological Field School. 1988