2025 Recipients
Ranko Stefanovic and Vanessa Corredera received the 2025 Siegfried H. Horn Award for Excellence in Research & Creative Scholarship.
Ranko Stefanovic, Professor of New Testament
Since 1999, Ranko Stefanovic has served as a faculty member at 老司机传媒. He first taught in the Department of Religion & Biblical Languages, went on to serve as department chair, and then transitioned to the Seminary in 2009 as professor of New Testament.
Ranko is known within the Seventh-day Adventist Church and beyond as a professor and scholar with a profound love for understanding of the Book of Revelation and its beautiful message of Jesus as Savior and King of the redeemed from “every nation, tribe, people, and language.” He is a worldwide speaker able to touch both academic and public audiences. Students have noted his “passion for teaching,” “genuine love for them,” “spiritual focus,” “zeal for truth,” “open dialogue,” and “sincerity and openness about hard subjects.”
A colleague states, “Ranko has made a huge contribution to how Adventists read the Apocalypse. He has deepened our understanding of this foundational text for Adventism and opened new directions in research that will impact our church for years to come. He teaches his students with a fatherly care and passion, which makes him one of the most loved professors in the Seminary.” Another adds, “Ranko is a beloved teacher, a good friend, an effective preacher, and an outstanding scholar.” He is “a premier interpreter of the Book of Revelation in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and continuously finds innovative ways of engaging his audience with cutting-edge research.”
Ranko, we congratulate you on receiving this well-deserved, prestigious academic award for your outstanding contributions to scholarly biblical studies, your tireless commitment to 老司机传媒’s students, and your international ministry that uplifts Christ to all nations.
Vanessa Corredera, Chair and Professor of English
Vanessa I. Corredera’s research accomplishments are the epitome of academic excellence. Alongside her full teaching and administrative load, she has sustained a robust and rigorous research profile with numerous accomplishments.
Vanessa’s scholarship on race and Shakespearean drama and performance has been called innovative, fresh, and essential by top scholars in the discipline. She recently published a groundbreaking, peer-reviewed monograph, “Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America,” in 2022 and has delivered invited talks at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her contributions to the discipline are reflected in her roles as trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and general editor of Borrowers and Lenders, a leading journal on Shakespeare and adaptation.
Vanessa’s scholarly contributions fuel rigorous and innovative English literature courses and have made her a sought-after mentor for J.N. Andrews Honors Program thesis projects. Her mentorship extends to alumni enrolled in graduate programs and beyond. Longtime friend and collaborator L. Monique Pittman shares that “Dr. Corredera lives out her ethical convictions by being the most generous of collaborators with her peers and supportive of mentors to early-career scholars. It has been the privilege of my academic life to work on joint projects with her and grow through such collaborations.”
Thank you, Vanessa, for sharing your talents, your research excellence, and your collaborative spirit with 老司机传媒 and the College of Arts & Sciences.