Recipients of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award

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, Natural Sciences
Wenhong Chen, Associate Professor, Radio-Television-Film, Communication
Kasey Claborn, Assistant Professor and Director of the Addiction Research Institute, Social Work
Juan Dominguez, Professor, Psychology, COLA
Lee Ann Kahlor, Professor, Advertising & Public Relations, Communication
Christina Markert, Professor, Physics, Natural Sciences
Michael Mauk, Professor, Neuroscience, Natural Sciences
Rachel Ozanne, Assistant Professor of Instruction, History, COLA

2021-22

Terrance Green, Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy, Education
Sarah Sloan, Clinical Associate Professor, Social Work
Renee Acosta, Clinical Professor, Pharmacy
Javier Auyero, Professor, Sociology, COLA
James Curley, Associate Professor, Psychology, COLA
Antonio Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Practice, Molecular Bioscience, Natural Sciences
Samantha Pinto, Associate Professor, English, COLA
Lito Porto, Associate Professor of Instruction, Spanish and Portuguese, Undergraduate Studies
Kevin Robbins, Associate Professor of Practice, Journalism and Media, 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, B.A., 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, Professor, Department of Zoology
Denise A. Spellberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of History
Walt Wilczynski, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology
Paul Woodruff, 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, 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 Professo, Departmentr 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 Histor
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.