2025-26

Brad Love, Ph.D.

Associate Professor,Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations, Moody College of Communication

2024-25

Tom Yankeelov, Ph.D.

Professor & Director of Center for Computational Oncology, Cockrell School of Engineering

2023-24

Christen Smith, Ph.D.

Director of the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and AADS, College of Liberal Arts

2022-23

Edmund T. Gordon, Ph.D.

Executive Director of the Contextualization and Commemoration Initiative and Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, College of Liberal Arts.

2021-22

Ashante Reese, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies and Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

2020-21

Caroline Faria, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts

2019-20

Helena Woodard, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts

2018-19

H. W. Perry, Jr., Ph.D.

Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Government; School of Law

2017-18

Yale N. Patt, Ph.D.

Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

2016-17

Courtney T. Byrd, Ph.D.

Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

2015-16

Robert A. Duke, Ph.D.

Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor in Music, Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Music

2014-15

Lori K. Holleran Steiker

Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Social Work

2013-14

Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Ph.D.

Distinguished Teaching Professor, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Professor, Department of Sociology

2012-13

James W. Vick, Ph.D.

Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ashbel Smith Professor, Department of Mathematics

2011-12

Jay Banner, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Geological Sciences

2010-11

Christopher Kirk, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

2009-10

Sean Theriault, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Government

2008-09

G. Howard Miller, Ph.D.

Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, Department of History

2007-08

Lawrence W. Speck, MARCH,

The W. L. Moody, Jr. Centennial Professor in Architecture and Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Architecture

2006-07

Henry A. Dietz, Ph.D.

Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Government

2005-06

Sharon E. Jarvis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies

2004-05

George B. Forgie, Ph.D.

Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, Department of History

2003-04

David D. Heymann, MARCH,

Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, School of Architecture

2002-03

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of English

2001-02

Larry Carver, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of English

2000-01

Michael P. Starbird, Ph.D.

Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Mathematics

1999-00

Charles Ramírez Berg, Ph.D

Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Radio TV  Film

1998-99

Charles B. Chiu, Ph.D.

Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Physics

1997-98

David A. Laude, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

1996-97

Michael Stoff, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of History

1995-96

John A. Daly, Ph.D.

Distinguished Teaching Professor and College of Business Administration Foundation Advisory Council Centennial Fellow, Departments of Speech Communication and Management

1994-95

Brent L. Iverson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

1993-94

James E. Stice, Ph.D.

Bob R. Dorsey Professor in Engineering, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering

1992-93

Denise M. Schulze, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of French and Italian

1991-92

Philip S. Schmidt, Ph.D.

Donald J. Douglass Centennial Professor in Engineering, J. Mike Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering

1990-91

George C. Wright, Ph.D.

Mastin Gentry White Professor in Southern History, Department of History

1989-90

Robert H. Kane, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Philosophy

1988-89

Robert H. Abzug, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of History

1987-88

Robert A. Prentice, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Management Science and Information Systems

1983-86*

*The Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship was established by the Board of Regents on August 12, 1983. It was amended in order to better define its operating procedures and that the previously reserved matching funds be allocated to double the endowment of the Fellowship. The amendment was approved by the Regents on June 6, 1986, and the first award was given during the 1987-88 academic year.