Dietrich College Graduate Student Teaching Award
To recognize exceptional graduate student teaching, the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences offers two annual awards: the Graduate Student Teaching Award and the Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award.
The Graduate Student Teaching Award recognizes outstanding expertise in all areas of teaching: curriculum development, classroom teaching, student mentoring and assessment. The Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award is for those who have held the role with remarkable distinction, dedication and creativity.
All Dietrich College graduate students are eligible for nomination. Each department in the college may nominate one graduate student per award. Departments may solicit letters of recommendation for more than one candidate per award, and use these letters to decide which candidate will be the departmental nominee for each award. Students who have been nominated in the past, but who did not receive the award for which they were nominated, may be re-nominated.
Past Winners
2023
2022
2021
Nuria Ballesteros Soria (Teaching Award), Modern Languages
Cassie Eng (Teaching Assistant Award), Psychology
2020
Alexis Adams (Teaching Award), Modern Languages
Patience Stevens (Teaching Assistant Award), Psychology
2019
Xiaofei Tang, Department of Modern Languages
2018
Andras Molnar, Sophie Qin and Jamie Smith (co-winners of the Teaching Award), Social and Decision Sciences, Modern Languages and English; Andras Molnar (Teaching Assistant Award), Social and Decision Sciences
2017
Aidan Kestigian and Mary Glavan (co-winners), Philosophy and English
2016
Ana Cooke and Sihui (Echo) Ke (co-winners), English and Modern Languages
2015
Dan Walter, Modern Languages
2014
Sheila Liming, English
2013
Doug Cloud and Ryan Miller (co-winners), English and Modern Languages
2012
Heather Steffen and Yun (Helen) Zhao (co-winners), English and Modern Languages
2011
Shuai Li, Modern Languages
2010
Emily Klein, English
2009
David Gray, Philosophy
2008
Alex Bennett and Chan Lu (co-winners), History and Modern Languages
2007
Necia Werner, English
2006
2005
Yuki Yoshimura, Modern Languages