Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Awards

Eligible Titles:

Professorial faculty, senior lecturers, lecturers, and graduate teaching assistants

Criteria:

Recipients shall be persons who have demonstrated their devotion to teaching, including classroom presence, course preparation and administration, student counseling, development of new courses, and new methods of student instruction. Teaching of graduate students may be recognized, but preference is given to teaching of undergraduate students.

Available Awards: 

• Faculty, senior lecturers, and lecturers – three $3,000 awards*
• Graduate teaching assistants  - three $2,500 awards

*In addition, each faculty recipient’s department will receive $500 to be used to further undergraduate teaching and learning.

Students:

To make a nomination, send a letter to the department chair by February 11th, 2023.

Chairs and directors of graduate studies:

All nomination packages must be submitted to the dean by either a department chair or a director of graduate studies. The 2023 nomination submission deadline is Friday, March 10th, 2023.

Each nomination must include:

1. Chair’s nomination letter, which should include a brief summary of teaching evaluation data
2. Candidate’s CV
3. List of all courses taught in the previous academic year
4. Letters of support from students (maximum of 5)

All materials in the nomination package should be submitted as a single pdf. 

Click here to submit a nomination package for a faculty member

Click here to submit a nomination package for a graduate teaching assistant

The awards for graduate student teaching (the Russell and Gitner) are drawn from the same set of nominations, so you will only need to send a single nomination for your nominee to be considered for both awards.

Questions should be directed to the Arts & Sciences Awards Committee.

2021-22

• Cathy Caruth, literatures in English
• Amy Krosch, psychology
• Song Lin, chemistry and chemical biology
• Matthew Velasco, anthropology
• Christina Fogarasi, literatures in English
• Shirley Le Penne, government
• Caitlin Miller, neurobiology and behavior

2020-21

• Julia Chang, romance studies
• Elisha Cohn, literatures in English
• Miloje Despic, linguistics
• Chris Monroe, near eastern studies
• Judith Peraino, music
• David Pizarro, psychology
• Olivia Graham, ecology and evolutionary biology
• Aleksandra Maalaoui, mathematics
• Mikaela Spruill, psychology

2019-20

• Elizabeth Lombardi, ecology and evolutionary biology
• Renee Sifri, chemistry and chemical biology
• Brianna Zgurich, philosophy

2018-19

• Michael Goldstein, psychology
• Kathleen Long, Romance studies
• Kelly Delp, mathematics
• Jihyun Kim, music
• Henry Kunerth, ecology & evolutionary biology
• Samantha Carouso-Peck, psychology
• Maria Modanu, neurobiology & behavor.

2017-18

• Aurora Masum-Javed, English
• Suman Seth, science and technology studies
• Debak Das, government
• Ethan Jost, psychology
• Claire Leavitt, government

2016-17

• Alexander Ophir, psychology
• Tom Ruttledge, chemistry and chemical biology
• Nicholas Mason, ecology and evolutionary biology 

2015-16

• Eric Tagliacozzo, history
• Floyd Davis, chemistry
• Wee Hao Ng, physics

2014-15

• Masha Raskolnikov, English
• Shalom Schoer, Near Eastern studies
• Christopher Dalton, ecology and evolutionary biology

2013-14

• Ismail Baggari, physics
• Barbara Correll, English
• Antonia Ruppel, classics

2012-13

• Gustavo Flores Macias, government
• Michael Stillman, math
• Matthew Kibbee, English

2011-12

• Charles Aquadro, molecular biology and genetics
• Kayla Crosbie, physics
• Jon Parmenter, history

2010-11

• Maria Cristina Garcia, history
• Philip Krasicky, physics
• Bryan Alkemeyer, English

2009-10

• Carol Gilson Rosen, linguistics
• Kim Haines-Eitzen, Near Eastern studies
• Alex Alemi, physics

2008-09

• Anne Beggs, theatre, film & dance
• Jonathan Kirshner, government
• Mariana Wolfner, molecular biology & genetics

2007-08

• Turan Birol, physics
• Allen Hatcher, mathematics
• Burke Hendrix, government
• Ana Rojas, comparative literature
• Scott Tucker, music

2006-07

• Derek Chang, history
• Thomas Hill, English
• Cristina Dahl, comparative literature

2005-06

• Christopher Way, government
• Geoffrey Coates, chemistry and chemical biology
• Christopher Jones, physics

2004-05

• Paul Chirik, chemistry and chemical biology
• Maria Terrell, mathematics
• Andres Lema-Hincapie, Romance studies

2003-04

• Kathryn March, anthropology
• Mary McCullough, English
• Nicholas Davis, English

2002-03

• Dennis Regan, psychology
• Melissa Hines, chemistry
• John Sebastian, English & medieval studies

2001-02

• Ravi Ramakrishna, mathematics
• Molly Diesing, linguistics
• Neil Jenkins, chemistry

2000-01

• Dexter Kozen, computer science
• Peter Gilgen, German studies
• Mary Miles

1999-2000

• Nicholas Jones, physics
• Fredric Bogel, English
• Gerald Feigenson, molecular biology & genetics

1998-99

• Douglas Weibel, chemistry
• Steven Squyres, astronomy
• Thomas Gilovich, psychology

1997-98

• Howard Schweber
• Keshav Pingali, computer science
• Daniel Schwarz, English
• Daniel Usner, history

1996-97

• Ewa Badowska, English
• Calum Carmichael, comparative literature
• David Mermin, physics

1995-96

• Ross Brann, Near Eastern studies
• Brian Smith, computer science
• John L. Bower

1994-95

• Marilyn Migiel, Romance studies
• James Coykendall, mathematics

1993-94

• Molly Hite, English
• Peter Katzenstein, government
• Brooks Appelbaum, English

1992-93

• Daniel Huttenlocher, computer science
• Cynthia Nieb

1991-92

• Barry Carpenter, chemistry
• Meredith Small, anthropology