Excellence in Teaching Award

The Excellence in Teaching Award, formerly known as the Distinguished Teaching Award, was established to honor and publicly recognize an outstanding faculty member in Arts & Sciences for exceptional teaching. Arts & Sciences has a long history of distinguished educators and innovative teaching that enriches the lives of undergraduate and graduate students, and the establishment of this award is a tribute to this tradition. 

All tenured and tenure-track Arts & Sciences faculty, professors of the practice, lecturers, and adjuncts are eligible and may be nominated by anyone in the Washington University community.  

Nomination Instructions

Nominations should describe the nominee's overall contributions to teaching in Arts & Sciences and include specific examples that showcase the faculty member's excellence in the classroom and transformative impact on students. Please submit nominations to the Dean’s Office via webform ahead of the nomination deadline.

Current Recipients: 

 

2024

 

Abigail Jager
Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Data Science

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Danielle Dutton
Professor of English

Co-Director, Center for the Literary Arts 

 

 

 

 

 

Past Recipients:
 

2023

Silas Johnson
Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics

 

Shanti Parikh
Professor and Chair of African and African-American Studies 

Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology 

 

2022

Emily Cohen-Shikora
Senior Lecturer in Psychological & Brain Sciences

 

Miguel Valerio
Assistant Professor of Spanish

 

2021

Arpita Bose
Associate Professor of Biology

Michelle Purdy
Associate Professor of Education
Director of the Undergraduate Program in Educational Studies
Affiliate Faculty, African and African-American Studies & Urban Studies

Younasse Tarbouni 
Teaching Professor of Arabic

 

2019
Stan Braude
Professor of the Practice of Biology

Lerone Martin
Associate Professor of Religion and Politics

 

2018
Megan Daschbach 
Senior Lecturer in Chemistry

 

John Shareshian
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

 

2017
Eric Brown
Associate Professor of Philosophy

 

Amanda Carey
Senior Lecturer in Spanish

 

2016
Ke Nie
Lecturer in Chinese in East Asian Languages and Cultures

 

Joseph “Pepe” Schraibman
Professor of Spanish in Romance Languages and Literatures

 

2015
Kathryn Mairin Hynes
Lecturer in Physics

 

Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Associate Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies

 

2014
Jami Ake
Senior Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
Senior Lecturer of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

 

Douglas Chalker
Associate Professor of Biology