Russell Distinguished Teaching Award

The Russell Distinguished Teaching Award is intended for professorial faculty, lecturers, senior lecturers and teaching assistants who have demonstrated their devotion to teaching, where teaching is understood to include classroom presence, preparation and administration, student counseling (including general advising of students formally assigned, but not necessarily enrolled in the recipients’ course), development of new courses and new methods of student instruction. Teaching of graduate students shall be recognized, but preference shall be given to teaching of undergraduates. Previous winners of Russell or Clark awards are not eligible.

The Russell Awards are given as follows:

  • Faculty/lecturer/senior lecturer: three $3,000 awards
  • Teaching assistant: three $1,500 awards
  • To each recipient’s department, $500 to be used to further undergraduate teaching and learning

Nomination Process

Students:

To make a nomination, send a letter to the department chair by February 12th.

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 deadline for nominations is February 26th.

Each nomination must include:

  • Chair’s nomination letter, which should include a brief summary of teaching evaluation data
  • Candidate’s CV
  • List of all courses taught
  • Letters of support from students (maximum of 5)

Click here to nominate a candidate. All materials in the nomination package should be submitted as a single pdf. 

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 all three awards

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

Recipients

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
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