 Shawn Achor
Harvard
Head Teaching Fellow for the most popular course at Harvard. Winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards.
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 Akhil Reed Amar
Yale
Recipient of the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence.
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 J. Lawford Anderson
USC
Recipient of over a dozen teaching awards including the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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 Jacob Appel
Brown
Winner of Brown’s Undergraduate Council of Students Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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 Ali Asani
Harvard
Recipient of The Harvard Foundation Medal. Teacher of Harvard's popular core course, "Understanding Islam."
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 Randall Bartlett
Smith
Winner of the Senior Faculty Teaching Award and the Sherrerd Prize for Distinguished Teaching.
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 Matthew Baum
Harvard
Winner of the Paul Lazarsfeld Award from the American Political Science Association.
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 Robert Bell
Williams
Named Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year in 2004 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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 Daryl Bem
Cornell
Recipient of a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Lectureship Fellowship. Author of Beliefs, Attitudes and Human Affairs.
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 Adam Berinsky
MIT
Winner of the William G. Bowen University Preceptorship at Princeton. Author of Silent Voices: Opinion Polls and Political Representation in America.
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 Stephanos Bibas
Penn
Former Clerk for the Honorable Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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 David Blight
Yale
Director of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
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 Paul Bloom
Yale
Recipient of the Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences.
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 Leon Botstein
Bard
President of Bard College. Winner of the Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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 Paul Bracken
Yale
#1 Professor, Yale's Executive Education Program. Member of the U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Transformation Advisory Group.
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 Khalilah Brown-Dean
Yale
Recipient of the Henry R. Spencer Award for Distinguished Teaching. Winner of the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Research.
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 William Burke-White
Penn
Recipient of the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching. J. William Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University.
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 Shelley Carson
Harvard
Recipient of a 2006 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center in Teaching and Learning.
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 Thomas Childers
Penn
Spotlight on Teaching Award, Best Lecturer in the Humanities. Richard S. Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching in History.
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 Marvin Chun
Yale
Teacher of one of the largest lecture courses on the Yale campus. Recipient of the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence.
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 S. Hollis Clayson
Northwestern
Winner of the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award.
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 Nicholas Cull
USC
Director of the USC's Masters Program in Public Diplomacy. Author of Selling War.
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 Andrew Delbanco
Columbia
Recipient of the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates.
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 Daniel Deudney
Johns Hopkins
Winner of the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award and the George E. Owen Teaching Award.
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 Larry Diamond
Stanford
2007 Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate
Education. 2007 Teacher of the Year Award.
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 Hasia Diner
NYU
Fulbright Professorship, University of Haifa, Israel. Lilly Fellow at the Mary I. Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College.
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 Glenn Ellis
Smith
2007 winner of the U.S. Professor of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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 Alex Filippenko
UC Berkeley
Winner of the U.S. Professor of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation. Recipient of the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy.
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 Richard Freedman
Haverford
Chair of the Department of Music. Frequent pre-concert lecturer for the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Chamber Music Society of Philadelphia.
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 Rachel Friedberg
Brown
Winner of the William G. McLoughlin Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in Social Sciences.
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 Beverly Gage
Yale
Winner of the Bancroft Dissertation Award for the best U.S. history dissertation.
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 Sylvester James Gates, Jr.
Maryland
Winner of the Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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 Tamar Gendler
Yale
Chair of the Cognitive Science Program. Recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation.
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 Glenda Gilmore
Yale
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize for the best book on the history of race relations in the United States.
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 Sol Gittleman
Tufts
Winner of the Harbison Prize for Outstanding Teaching from the Danforth Foundation.
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 Marcelo Gleiser
Dartmouth
Winner of the Dartmouth Award for an Outstanding Creative or Scholarly Work. Author of the award-winning book, The Prophet and the Astronomer.
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 Elizabeth Goldberg
Babson
Winner of the Dean's Teaching Award in 2006. Voted Professor of the Year by the graduating classes of 2007 and 2008.
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 James Gross
Stanford
Recipient of the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
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 Orin Grossman
Fairfield
Academic Vice President at Fairfield University. Internationally renowned concert pianist.
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 Jeff Hancock
Cornell
Winner of the 2008 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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 David Helfand
Columbia
Winner of the Presidential Teaching Award and the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates.
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 James Hoopes
Babson
Winner of the 2000 Paul Hersey Award. Recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
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 Kartik Hosanagar
The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania Winner of the Class of 2007 “Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” Award and the 2007 MBA Excellence in Teaching Award.
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 Paul Hurley
Claremont McKenna
Winner of Five Excellence in Teaching Awards from Pomona College.
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 John Immerwahr
Villanova
Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Silver Medalist. CASE Professor of the Year Award.
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 Annette Insdorf
Columbia
Director of Undergraduate Film Studies. Author of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust.
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 Eric Jensen
Swarthmore
Recipient of a James A. Michener Faculty Fellowship, two National Science Foundation grants and two NASA grants.
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 Joshua Katz
Princeton
Winner of the President’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Teacher of Princeton's popular undergraduate course, “Origins and Nature of English Vocabulary.”
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 Thomas Forrest Kelly
Harvard
Past chair of the Department of Music. Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society.
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 Robin Kelsey
Harvard
Winner of the Derek Bok Center Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Roslyn Abramson Award.
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 Fred Kleiner
Boston University
Chair of the Art History Department. Winner of the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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 Steven Lamy
University of Southern California
Winner of the Burlington National Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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 Jennifer Lawless
Brown
Winner of Stanford University’s Centennial Teaching Award. Author of It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office.
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 Seth Lerer
University of California
Winner of the Hoagland Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and the Dean's Award for Graduate Teaching.
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 Steven Levitsky
Harvard
Winner of the Rosyln Abramson Award for Excellence in Teaching. Holder of the John L. Loeb Chair at Harvard, awarded for excellence in teaching and research.
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 Susan Lindee
University of Pennsylvania
A former Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the Schuman Prize from the History of Science Society and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund 40th Anniversary Award.
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 Crystal J. Lucky
Villanova University
Director of the Africana Studies Program.
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 Louis Masur
Trinity
Winner of Harvard's John Clive Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
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 Joseph McVeigh
Smith
Chair of the German Studies Department. Winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Pennsylvania.
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 Kenneth R. Miller
Brown
Winner of Six Major Teaching Awards including the Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of the Year Award.
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 James Morone
Brown
Three-time winner of the Barrett Hazeltine Award for Outstanding Teaching. Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer.
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 Richard Muller
Berkeley
Winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California.
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 Anne Nelson
Columbia
Recipient of a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship to research the German resistance. Winner of the Livingston Award for international reporting.
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 Katherine Newman
Princeton
Recipient of the Harvard Graduate Student Council Award for Excellence in Mentoring.
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 Dietrich Neumann
Brown
Royce Family Professor for Excellence in Teaching. Winner of the President's Award for Teaching with Advanced Technology.
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 Sherwin B. Nuland
Yale
Clinical Professor of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine. Author of How We Die, winner of the National Book Award.
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 Paul Olsen
Columbia
Recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society.
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 Jean-Marc Oppenheim
Columbia
Recipient of the Columbia President’s Traveling Fellowship. Project editor of the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East.
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 John Orman
Fairfield
Winner of Fairfield’s highest teaching honor, the Alpha Sigma Nu Teacher of the Year Award.
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 Jonathan Petropoulos
Claremont McKenna
Winner of the Huntoon Senior Teaching Award and two Distinguished Teaching Awards from the Harvard Committee on Undergraduate Education.
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 Richard Pious
Barnard/Columbia
Winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha Outstanding Teaching Award in Political Science from the American Political Science Association.
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 Scott Plous
Wesleyan
Winner of the 2006 Carnegie Foundation Award for the Connecticut Professor of the Year.
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 Jack Rakove
Stanford
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Author of James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic.
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 Michael Rose
Vanderbilt
Winner of the Chancellor's Cup for Teaching Excellence and Vanderbilt Chair of Teaching Excellence.
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 Jeffrey Rossman
UVA
Winner of the Gurevich Memorial Prize in Russian History. Awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship.
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 David Rubin
Syracuse
Dean of the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse. Past Pulitzer Prize juror.
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 Teofilo Ruiz
UCLA
Winner of the 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award at UCLA and the Carnegie Foundation's Professor of the Year award.
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 Scott Sagan
Stanford
Winner of the Hoagland Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching
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 Catherine Sanderson
Amherst
Winner of the National Institute of Health's B/START Award and the American Psychological Association's Dissertation Research Award.
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 Austin Sarat
Amherst
Teacher of “Murder,” Amherst’s most popular course. Winner of the Russell Sage Fellowship in Law.
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Brown
Six-time winner of the Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award. Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution.
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Swarthmore
Phi Beta Kappa Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less.
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 Andrew Shatté
Penn 2000-2006
Winner of the School of Arts and Sciences Most Popular Professor Award. Co-author of The Resilience Factor.
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 Debora Silverman
UCLA
Winner of the Emerson Prize in the Humanities and the Berkshire History Prize.
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 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Dartmouth
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University.
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 Michael S. Sparer
Columbia
Two-time winner of the Student Government Association Teacher of the Year Award.
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 Allison Stanger
Middlebury
Winner of the Vermont Professor of the Year award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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 John Stein
Brown
Two-time recipient of the Barrett Hazeltine Teaching Citation for Outstanding Teaching.
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 Jonathan Steinberg
Penn
Past Chairman of the Department of History. Author of All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941 to 1943.
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 Thomas Sugrue
Penn
Winner of the Richard Dunn Teaching Award. Teacher of two courses selected as "Hall of Fame Classes" by the Penn Course Review.
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 Claudia Swan
Northwestern
Chair of the Department of Art History. Former fellow at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study.
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 Richard Thomas
Harvard
Recipient of the Carmen S. Bonnano Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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 John Tomasi
Brown
Winner of Brown’s premier teaching award, the Henry Merrit Wriston Prize. Also awarded the Undergraduate Council of Students Teaching Prize.
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 Paul Tucker
University of Massachusetts Boston
Winner of the Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Scholarship and the Yale Press Governor's Award.
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 Alan M. Wachman
Tufts
Recipient of the James L. Paddock Award for Excellence in Teaching. Past president of the China Institute.
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 Andrew Ward
Swarthmore
Winner of the American Psychological Association Dissertation Award and Recipient of Swarthmore's Lang Faculty Fellowship.
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 Robert Watson
UCLA
Winner of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Prize and the Gold Shield Faculty Prize.
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 Nicole Weekes
Pomona College
Named California Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation.
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 Arthur Wheelock
Maryland
Curator of Northern Baroque painting at the National Gallery of Art. Co-editor of Rembrandt Creates Rembrandt: Art and Ambition in Leiden.
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 Ralph Williams
University of Michigan
Voted "Best Professor" on campus nine times. Winner of four Excellence in Education Teaching Awards.
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 Lawrence Wilkerson
William and Mary
Former Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Colonel, U.S. Army (retired).
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 Tamsen Wolff
Princeton Director of numerous new plays. Teacher of Princeton's popular course, "The Curious Aesthetics of Musical Theatre."
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 Gordon Wood
Brown
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.
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 Craig Wright
Yale
Winner of the Einstein and Kinkeldey awards from the American Musicological Society and the Dent Medal from the International Musicological Society.
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Steve J. Wurtzler
Georgetown
Winner of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Douglas Ehninger Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
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