Award Winning Teachers and Their Courses 2011-2012

Each year a number of awards are given to faculty on campus who exemplify excellence in teaching.  We are pleased to honor the 2011-2012 Award Winning Teachers below.  More information on the faculty member can be found by clicking on their name, and undergraduate classes they are teaching in the 2011-2012 academic year are highlighted.  In addition to course offerings, many of these faculty work with undergraduates through independent reading, independent research, or other projects.  We encourage you to search for additional opportunities to work with these Award Winning Teachers in Explore Courses.

Walter J. Gores Award

The Gores Award is the University's highest award for excellence in teaching. As the University's highest award for teaching, the Gores Award celebrates achievement in educational activities that include lecturing, tutoring, advising, and discussion leading.

Professor Pavle Levi
Art and Art History

Winter - FILMSTUD 4: Introduction to Film Study
Spring - FILMSTUD 102: Theories of the Moving Image

Professor Robert Siegel
Microbiology and Immunology, Human Biology, Center for African Studies
Autumn - HUMBIO 155B: The Vaccine Revolution
Autumn - HUMBIO 155H: Humans and Viruses I
Autumn - MI 70Q: Photographing Nature
Autumn - MI 18SC: The Coming Influenza Pandemic

Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education

Established in 2001, the Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program recognizes faculty for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education, including faculty from the graduate and professional schools.

Professor Mark Applebaum
Music

Autumn - MUSIC 36N: Humor in Music
Winter - MUSIC 156: "sic": Improvisation Collective

Professor Russell Berman
Comparative Literature

Autumn - COMPLIT 12SC: Ghost Stories: Why the Dead Return and What They Want From Us
Spring - GERGEN 128N: Medicine, Modernism, and Mysticism in Thomas Mann's the Magic Mountain

Professor Carol Boggs
Human Biology

Autumn - HUMBIO 2A: Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology
Winter - BIO 144: Conservation Biology (HUMBIO 112)

Professor Rob Reich
Political Science

Autumn, Winter, Spring - ETHICSOC 8SI: What Are They Thinking?

ASSU Teaching Award

This is a student-nominated teaching award.
Recipient TBD

Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize

The Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize recognizes not only excellence in teaching but also the ability to inspire personal and intellectual development beyond the classroom. This may include, but is not limited to, encouraging critical and analytical thinking, taking an active interest in students as individuals, and influencing the way students think about the world. Every year, members of Phi Beta Kappa present an award to an outstanding member of the faculty. Nominations are accepted from members of the senior class. The winner is then selected by a panel of Seniors in Phi Beta Kappa.

Professor James Campbell
History
Autumn - AFRICAAM 47: History of South Africa (HISTORY 47)
Autumn - HISTORY 21SC: Celluloid America: Explorations in Film and History
Winter - HISTORY 56N: Celluloid America: Explorations in Film and History
Winter - HISTORY 208S: Facing the Past: The Politics of Retrospective Justice

Dr. St. Clair Drake Teaching Award

This award is presented to a faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching. The ideal candidate for this award has inspired students intellectually and demonstrated a commitment to enhancing the intellectual vitality/academic environment of the Black community.

Lecturer Jennifer Schwartz
Chemistry
Autumn - CHEM 31A: Chemical Principles I
Autumn - CHEM 31AC: Problem Solving in Science
Winter - CHEM 31B: Chemical Principles II
Winter - CHEM 31BC: Problem Solving in Science
Winter, Spring, Summer - CHEM 33: Structure and Reactivity
Spring - CHEM 33C: Problem Solving in Science

Asian American Center Faculty Award

The purpose of this award is to recognize the contributions of an outstanding professor who has represented the Asian American community at Stanford by enhancing undergraduate and graduate education or community.

Professor Christine Min Wotipka

School of Education
Autumn - EDUC 100A: EAST House Seminar: Current Issues and Debates in Education
Winter - EDUC 100B: EAST House Seminar: Current Issues and Debates in Education
Spring - ASNAMST 100C: EAST House Seminar: Current Issues and Debates in Education (EDUC 100C)
Spring - EDUC 197: Education, Gender, and Development (SOC 134)

  Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching (H&S)      

Established in 1975, the Dean’s Award recognizes the efforts of exceptional teachers in the School of Humanities and Sciences. The award is given for excellence in graduate education, achievements in teaching, and first years of teaching at Stanford.

Professor Dan Edelstein
French and Italian

Autumn -FRENLIT 38N: Coffee & Cigarettes: The Making of French Intellectual Culture
Spring - BIO 167: Social Animals, Social Revolutions and Social Networks (CS 81G, FRENGEN 167)
Spring - IHUM 3: Epic Journeys, Modern Quests
 

Professor Hazel Markus
Psychology

Spring - ENGLISH 64N: Growing Up in America (PSYCH 29N)

Professor Ken Schultz
Political Science

Winter - POLISCI 110D: War and Peace in American Foreign Policy (POLISCI 110Y)
Spring - OSPOXFRD 41: Europe and US Foreign Policy

Professor Anthony Wagner
Psychology

Spring - PSYCH 45: Introduction to Learning and Memory

Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award (School of Engineering)

  This award is a singular honor awarded to one professor, assistant professor, or associate professor from the School of Engineering each year in recognition of his or her dedication to teaching undergraduates. To be worthy of this award, a professor must go beyond simply explaining the material or getting midterms back on time. This sort of teacher is exceptional in front of the class, welcoming and useful during office hours, and devoted in all aspects of the learning process.

Professor Marc Levenston
Mechanical Engineering

Professor Marc Levenston    Mechanical Engineering  

Excellence in Teaching (School of Earth Sciences)    

This award was established in 1982 to acknowledge and recognize faculty's dedication to quality teaching.

Professor Margot Gerritsen
Energy Resources Engineering

Spring - EARTHSYS 102: Renewable Energy Sources and Greener Energy Processes (ENERGY 102)

Allan Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research

The Cox medal is awarded to a faculty person who has established a record of excellence directing undergraduate research over a number of years. It may also go to a faculty member who has done an especially outstanding job with just one or two undergraduates whose work is unusually superior.

Professor Garry Gold
School of Medicine, Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology)

Winter - OSPFLOR 66: Da Vinci: Renaissance Understanding of Anatomy
Winter - OSPFLOR 76: Da Vinci to Morgagni: Development of Modern Medicine and Pathology