Caitlin Annette Fitz
Associate Professor of History, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Caitlin Fitz believes that “the study of history has the potential to make us better people: more thoughtful, more humble, more humane.”
University Teaching Awards
Each year, the University Teaching Awards are conferred to individual faculty members through the Office of the Provost. These exemplary faculty demonstrate excellence in undergraduate classroom teaching and represent innovative curricular leadership across the University. University Teaching Award recipients come from across all six Evanston undergraduate schools and NU-Qatar. We celebrate their considerable contributions to student learning.
Scroll below to see the winners of the 2025 awards, and read more about them in Northwestern Now.
INFORMATION About the awardsPast Recipients
Congratulations to the 2025 Recipients
Michael S. Horn
Professor of Computer Science and of Learning Science, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and School of Education and Social Policy
Whether teaching classes like Introduction to Computer Programming, which attracts more than 200 students from across the University, or engaging undergraduate students to teach fifth-graders in Evanston public schools how to code through music, Michael Horn emphasizes creativity and accessibility.
Jonathan Emery
Associate Professor of Instruction, McCormick School of Engineering
Jonathan Emery has a multidimensional approach to teaching materials science and engineering (MSE). His emphasis is on using “active and multimodal learning, intuition-building computational learning tools, and formative assessments that scaffold learning.”
Peter Slevin
Professor of Journalism, Medill
Teaching courses as varied as politics, foreign policy and the racial history of Evanston, Peter Slevin encourages his students to start with questions, not answers, and to look for answers beyond the obvious.
Yumi Shiojima
Professor of Instruction, Department of Asian Language and Cultures, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Yumi Shiojima teaches all four levels of Japanese with the goal of “connecting students to the world and developing their understanding and appreciation of the Japanese language, society and culture.”