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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.

Read more about the most recent recipients of the University Teaching Awards in the University announcement

 

INFORMATION About the awardsPast Recipients

University Teaching Award Faculty Recipients

1992 - 2023

Congratulations to the 2023 Recipients

Ben Gorvine

Ben Gorvine

Professor of Instruction of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

The driving force behind Ben Gorvine’s teaching is his commitment to supporting students’ “intellect and humanity.” Gorvine explains that, to him, “quality teaching is as much about making human connections with students as it is about specific content.”

Brent E. Huffman

Brent E. Huffman

Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications

Brent E. Huffman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and a passionate professor of documentary filmmaking. Huffman aims to train “leaders in documentary journalism who will advance the medium creatively and responsibly.”

Daniel Immerwahr

Daniel Immerwahr

Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, History, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Daniel Immerwahr’s approach to history centers on narratives. He explains that “organizing facts into narratives” enables “a way of seeing how this led to that.”
Elizabeth Norton

Elizabeth Norton

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Communication

Elizabeth Norton’s teaching and mentoring are driven by the motto “Do good and do good science.” As Norton explains, “my foremost goals for teaching are to inspire genuine curiosity and enthusiasm and to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence that enables them to do good (and good science).”

Aaron Peterson

Aaron Peterson

Associate Professor of Instruction of Mathematics, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Aaron Peterson aims to create a vibrant mathematical community in his classes by “empowering students to reason through problems.” Peterson explains that “each of my courses tells a compelling mathematical story that frames learning objectives as aspects of a coherent and aesthetically pleasing system of ideas.”
Reuel Rogers

Reuel Rogers

Associate Professor of Political Science, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

In his teaching, Reuel Rogers examines the racial injustices and political disparities Blacks and other people of color experience in the United States. As he explains, he guides students to use “empirical evidence and social science theory to identify progress, problems, and puzzles in [these groups’] quest for democratic representation and equality.”
Lilah Shapiro

Lilah Shapiro

Assistant Professor of Instruction, School of Education and Social Policy

Across her teaching in the School of Education and Social Policy, Lilah Shapiro asks students to interrogate what “knowledge” is. In doing so, Shapiro encourages them to consider the ways that knowledge is socially derived and constructed.