Recipients of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award

2024-25
Pamela Garrison Elias
Professor of Practice, College of Natural Sciences, UTeach-Mathematics

Anthanasio Papalexandrou
Professor, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art and Art History

Frances Champagne
Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Psychology

Talitha LeFlouria
Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Department of History

Omoniyi Afolabi
Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies

Ruth Shear
Professor of Practice, College of Natural Sciences, Department of Freshman Research Initiative

Martha Maas
Assistant Professor of Instruction, College of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology Instructional Office

Angela Beasley
Associate Professor of Instruction, College of Natural Sciences, Department of Computer Science

2023-24
Jonathan Partridge
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Biology Instruction Office, College of Natural Sciences

Jennifer Austin
Associate Professor of Instruction, Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences

Sarah Angulo
Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts

Patricia Garcia
Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts

Ken-hou Lin
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts

Aaron O’Connell
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts

2022-23
Katherine Bruner
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Biology Instruction Office, College of Natural Sciences

Wenhong Chen
Associate Professor, Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication

Kasey Claborn, Assistant Professor and Director of the Addiction Research Institute, School of Social Work

Juan Dominguez
Professor, Psychology, College of Liberal Arts

Lee Ann Kahlor
Professor, Advertising & Public Relations, Moody College of Communication

Christina Markert
Professor, Physics, College of Natural Sciences

Michael Mauk
Professor, Neuroscience, College of Natural Sciences

Rachel Ozanne
Assistant Professor of Instruction, History, College of Liberal Arts

2021-22
Terrance Green
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education

Sarah Sloan
Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Work

Renee Acosta
Clinical Professor, School of Pharmacy

Javier Auyero
Professor, Sociology, College of Liberal Arts

James Curley
Associate Professor, Psychology, College of Liberal Arts

Antonio Gonzalez
Associate Professor of Practice, Molecular Bioscience, College of Natural Sciences

Samantha Pinto
Associate Professor, English, College of Liberal Arts

Lito Porto
Associate Professor of Instruction, Spanish and Portuguese, Undergraduate Studies

Kevin Robbins
Associate Professor of Practice, Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication

Suzanne Seriff
Associate Professor of Instruction, Anthropology, Undergraduate Studies

2020-21
Laura Lashinger
Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences

Sally Ragsdale
Associate Professor of Instruction, Statistics and Data Sciences

Jennifer Graber
Professor, Religious Studies

Sarah Brayne
Assistant Professor, Sociology

Kathryn Klinger Tackett
Associate Professor of Practice, Special Education

Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance

Adam Rabinowitz
Associate Professor, Classics

2019-20
Jason Brownlee, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Government

Michael Drew, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Janice Fischer, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences

Marci Gleason, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences

Vernita Gordon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Gregory Knapp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment

Scott Stroud, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies

2018-19
Bethany Albertson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government

Daina R. Berry, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History

Shannon Cavanagh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

Keely Delain Finkelstein, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Astronomy

Minette Drumwright, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations

Gloria González-López, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology

Kristin Harvey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences

James Patton, Ed.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Special Education

2017-18
Anthony Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Courtney Byrd, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Jacqueline Evans, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Ann Johns, Ph.D.
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History

Donna Kornhaber, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

Jennifer Moon, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Biology Instructional Office

Jeremi Suri, Ph.D.
Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, Professor, Department of History
William Wolesensky, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics

2016-17
Jay Banner, Ph.D.
Fred M. Bullard Professor in Geological Sciences, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Geological Sciences

Erika Bsumek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Evan Carton, Ph.D.
Joan Negley Kelleher Centennial Professor in Rhetoric and Composition, Professor, Department of English

John Markert, Ph.D.
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Physics

Alison Norman, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science

Shelley Payne, Ph.D.
Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Department of Molecular Biosciences

Ann Repp, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Pauline Strong, Ph.D.
Professor, Director of the Humanities Institute, Department of Anthropology

2015-16
Phillip Barrish, Ph.D.
Tony Hilfer Professor in American and British Literature, Professor, Department of English

Amit Bhasin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Kirsten Bradbury, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Amanda Hager, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics

Anita Latham, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Biology Instructional Office

Calvin Lin, Ph.D.
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Computer Science

Keri Stephens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies

David Vanden Bout, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry

2014-15
Robert Crosnoe, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology

Julia E. Guernsey, Ph.D.
D.J. Sibley Family Centennial Faculty Fellow in Prehistoric Art, Professor, Department of Art and Art History

Coleman Hutchison, Ph.D.
Fellow of Iris Howard Regents Professorship in English Literature, Associate Professor, Department of English

Bruce W. Porter, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Computer Science

Lawrence W. Speck, MARCH
W.L. Moody, Jr. Centennial Professor in Architecture, Distinguished Teach Professor, School of Architecture

2013-14
Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Andrew Ellington,, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular Biosciences

Leanne H Field, Ph.D.
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Biology

Lori Holleran-Steiker, Ph.D.
Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, School of Social Work

Cynthia A Labrake, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry

Brad Love, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Advertising

Karl Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

2012-13
Jane Arledge, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics

Ruth E. Buskirk, Ph.D.
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences

Michael D. Scott, M.S.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science

Wendy I. Domjan, Ph.D.
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Patrick J. Davis, Ph.D.
Professor and Senior Associate Dean, College of Pharmacy

2011-12
Alan W. Friedman, Ph.D.
Arthur J. Thaman and Wilhelmina Dore’ Thaman Endowed Professor in English, Professor, Department of English

Caryn Carlson, Ph. D.
Professor, Department of Psychology

Hannah Wojciehowski, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

Naomi Lindstrom, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Theresa Jones, Ph. D.
Professor, Department of Psychology

Elizabeth F. Stepp, Ph. D.
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics

2010-11
Elizabeth Engelhardt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of American Studies

Ami Pedahzur, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Government

Kirsten Belgum, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies

Eve Nicols, M.A.
Senior Lecturer/Program Director, Fashion Design Program, Department of Human Ecology

Steven Friesen, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Religious Studies

Domino R. Perez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

Charters Wynn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

2009-10
Timothy Loving, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Dev. & Family Sciences

James H. Cox, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of English

Elizabeth Hedrick, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

Benjamin Carrington, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Department of Sociology

Douglas Bruster, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English

Devin Stauffer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government

2008-09
Nominees for academic year 2008-2009 became the 2009-2010 nominees (as approved by the UT Faculty Council in Spring of 2009) in an effort to award the recipients of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award in the academic year they are selected.

2007-08
Daniel Birkholz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of English

Diane Davis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Division of Rhetoric and Writing

Samuel Gosling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Daniel Hamermesh, Ph.D.
Edward Everett Hale Centennial Professor in Economics, Department of Economics

Daron Shaw, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government

Robert Van de Geijn, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Computer Sciences

2006-07
Thomas M. Cable, Ph.D.
Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair in English, Department of English

Neville Hoad, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of English

Stephen W. Keckler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences

Mark G. Longaker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing

Helena Woodard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

Jacqueline D. Woolley, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology

2005-06
Edward R. Anderson, Ph.D
Associate Professor, School of Human Ecology

David F. Crew, Ph.D
Professor, Department of History

Laura J. Furman,
Professor, Department of English

James N. Loehlin, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of English

Sean M. Theriault, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Department of Government

Michael P. Young, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

2004-05
Rebecca Bigler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Steven D. Hoelscher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of American Studies

Martin W. Kevorkian, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of English

Theresa J. O’Halloran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology

David A. Wevill, MA
Professor, Department of English

2003-04
Arturo De Lozanne, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology

C. Joshua Holahan, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology

Mark A. Lawrence, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of History

Marjorie C. Woods, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

2002-03
Joanna M. Brooks, Ph.D.
Department of English

Douglas C. Burger, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Sciences

Janet M. Davis, Ph.D.
Department of American Studies

Alison K. Frazier, Ph.D.
Department of History

Christine L. Williams, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology

2001-02
Michael C. Downer, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physics

Susan S. Heinzelman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

Bruce J. Hunt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Robert G. Moser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government

Timothy J. Moore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Classics

Guy P. Raffa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian

2000-01
David Birdsong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian

David Buss, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology

Carol H. MacKay, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

Martin Shankland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Section of Integrative Biology

1999-00
Lance Bertelsen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

Lisa Moore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

Deborah Overdorff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

James W. Pennebaker, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology

Alexandra Wettlaufer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian

Harold H. Zakon, Ph.D.
Professor, Section of Neurobiology

1998-99
Nina Berman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages

Judith Coffin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Karl Galinsky, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Classics

Susan Gonzalez Baker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Mark C. Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of American Studies

J. Craig Wheeler, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Astronomy

1997-98
Carl S. Blyth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian

Rosa A. Eberly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Rhetoric and Composition

Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English and Division of Rhetoric and Composition

William R. Nethercut, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Classics

Greg O. Sitz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Mark R.V. Southern, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Studies

1996-97
Knud Lambrecht, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian

Susan J. Napier, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies

George D. Pollak, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Zoology

Denise A. Spellberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Walt Wilczynski, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology

Paul Woodruff, Ph.D.
Hayden W. Head Regents Chair, Plan II Honors Program and Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities, Department of Philosophy

1995-96
Richard Graham, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History

Gary Hamrick, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mathematics

Mark L. Louden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages

John M. Slatin, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English and Division of Rhetoric and Composition

Robert C. Solomon, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Philosophy

Jeffrey K. Tulis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government

1994-95
Daniela Bini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian

Thomas J. Garza, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages

F. Tomasson Jannuzi, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Economics

Timothy Rowe, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences

Timothy Schallert, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology

Peter Trubowitz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Government

1993-94
Jerry Brand, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Botany

Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

John Kappelman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Marc S. Lewis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Cory A. Reed, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Keith Walters, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics

1992-93
Henry A. Dietz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government

Robin W. Doughty, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Geography

John Gilbert, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mathematics

Ian F. Hancock, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Linguistics and English

Patricia S. Kruppa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

W. Roger Louis, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History

1991-92
Franklin Bronson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Zoology

Kenneth E. Foote, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Geography

David A. Kendrick, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Economics

Jane N. Lippmann, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of French and Italian

Millicent J. Marcus, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of French and Italian

Janet K. Swaffar, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Germanic Languages

1990-91
Charles B. Chiu, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physics

Daniel T. Gilbert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Lewis L. Gould, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History

Louis H. Mackey, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Philosophy

Eric S. Mallin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of English

E. Mark Warr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

1989-90
Melissa P. Collie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Government

William T. Guy, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mathematics

William R. Nethercut, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Classics

Antonella C. Pease, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian

Michael B. Stoff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Theresa A. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology

1988-89
Michael W. Adams, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Department of English

Warner J. Barnes, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English

John G. Baugh, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

Wayne Lesser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

Professor Philip J. Morrison
TAERF Professor of Physics

Cynthia Shelmerdine, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Classics

Michael P. Starbird, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mathematics

1987-88
John M. Hoberman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages

Joseph M. Horn, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology

Susan E. Marshall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

Janet A. Meisel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Jonathan L. Sessler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

Robert E. Wall, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Linguistics

1986-87
Bruce Buchanan II, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government

E. Mott Davis, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anthropology

Austin M. Gleeson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physics

Richard B. Grant, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of French

Harvey M. Sussman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Linguistics

Warwick P. Wadlington, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English

1985-86
Randy L. Diehl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Frank E. Donahue, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages

Paul W. English, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Geography

Ralph J. Kaufmann, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English

Brian P. Levack, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Melvin E. L. Oakes, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physics

Robert C. Solomon, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Philosophy

William M. Stott, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of American Studies

1984-85
George B. Forgie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Ambrose Gordon, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English

Robert L. Hardgrave, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Government

Stephen J. McAdam, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mathematics

Gareth Morgan, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Classics

Walter L. Reed, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English

Charles R. Rossman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English

1983-84
Henry M. Cleaver, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Economics

Robert A. Divine, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History

M. Kate Frost, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English (Composition)

Alan D. Gribben, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English (Composition)

Robert H. Kane, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

Janice C. May, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government

Roger C. Osborn, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mathematics

Denise M. Schulze, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of French

1982-83
Henry A. Dietz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government

Patricia S. Kruppa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Stephen L. McDonald, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Economics

Bruce P. Palka, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mathematics

Ralph R. Read, III, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages

W. O. Sutherland, Jr. Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English (Composition)

1981-82
John D. Dollard, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mathematics

Vincent J. Geraci, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Economics

Maxine Hairston, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

Wallace Mendelson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Government

G. Howard Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Symmes Chadwick Oliver, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anthropology

John J. Ruszkiewicz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of English

K. Carter Wheelock, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

1980-81
Mary Farr Jordan Baker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of French

James Duban, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of English

Robert E. Greenwood, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mathematics

Clarence G. Lasby, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History

Joseph F. Malof, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English

John R. Trimble, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English

 

* The President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award was formerly presented during the fall semester (from 1980 – 1986; 1999-2000) or during the spring semester at Honors Day (1987 – 1999). Beginning in 2001, this award is presented at the occasion of the President’s State of the University Address in September.