College Announces Recipients of 2015 Teaching Awards
Each year, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences recognizes a number of faculty members and graduate students for their excellence as undergraduate teachers.
The most senior of the tenure-line faculty chosen to receive Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards receives the E. LeRoy Hall Award. In addition, two more Distinguished Teaching Awards — the Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Awards — are reserved for members of the teaching-track faculty.
The Award for Excellence in Mentoring in Undergraduate Research, meanwhile, is given to a faculty member who exhibited particular skills in and dedication to mentoring undergraduate students engaged in research. The College also recognizes graduate students who excelled as teaching assistants.
The award winners will be honored at a celebratory luncheon on the Evanston campus on June 3.
This year’s winners include:
Weinberg College E. LeRoy Hall Award
- Associate Professor of Political Science Dan Galvin
Galvin’s research focuses on the development of political institutions, political organizations and political policy in the United States. The author of Presidential Party Building, Galvin is examining how the decline of organized labor has affected party politics, labor politics and the working poor.
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards
- Professor of Molecular Biosciences Vinzenz Unger
In his laboratory, Unger leads research on the mechanisms of cellular membranes, which in the realm of structural biology remain among the most elusive and most difficult to tackle. Through his research, he endeavors to provide more insight into the ways macromolecular complexes function at the molecular level. - Assistant Professor of History Henri Lauziere
Lauziere is a historian of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, Islamic intellectual history, and Salafism. His research interests lie at the intersection of Islamic intellectual history and the modern political history of the Arab world, including North Africa. He is working on a book that expands on his dissertation examining the history of Salafism in the 20th century. - Assistant Professor of English Rebecca Johnson
Johnson teaches courses on Middle Eastern literary and cultural studies, with a special focus on modern Arabic literature. Her research focuses on the history and theory of the novel in Arabic and English, the literature of the 19th-century period known as the Nahda, and literary orientalism and occidentalism.
Weinberg College Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award
- Patricia Beddows, assistant professor of instruction, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Beddows is the current director of the Environmental Field School and the Environmental Science Program. Her research includes the study of karstified carbonate terrains and caves and their socio-economic management.
Weinberg College Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
- Professor of Anthropology Helen Schwartzman
Schwartzman has examined how children construct play worlds for themselves, the role of meetings in organizations and communities, storytelling in work settings, and, most recently, moral panics about the introduction of new media to children in the United States. - Associate Professor of Art History Hannah Feldman
Feldman researches and teaches late modern and contemporary art and visual culture. Her first book, From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, considers the theorization of art and spectacle in Paris leading up to and throughout the Algerian War of Independence.
Weinberg College Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards
Four graduate students have been chosen to receive Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards. They are:
- Renee French (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
- Kyle Burke (History)
- Cheryl Berriman (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
- Mauro Gilli (Political Science)