Teaching Prize Recipients

The Walzer ’56 Award for Teaching is given to a tenure-track faculty member who combines superlative scholarship with inspired teaching.

2025: Constantine Lignos
2024: Carolyn Abbott Mathematics
2023: W. Benjamin Rogers Physics
2022: Gregory Childs, History
2021: Wangui Muigai, History and African and African American Studies
2020: Hannah Muller, History
2019: Nagmeh Sohrabi, Crown Center
2018: Anita Hannig, Anthropology
2017: Derron Wallace, Education and Sociology
2016: Jasmine Johnson, African and African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2014: Xing Hang, History
2013: Sara Shostak, Sociology
2010: Maura J. Farrelly, American Studies
2008: Wendy Cadge, Sociology
2005: Janet McIntosh, Anthropology
2004: Derek Isaacowitz, Psychology
2003: Can Erbil, Economics
2001: Chad Brown, Economics
1999: Govind Sreenivasan, History
1997: Sarah Lamb, Anthropology

The Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching honors a tenured or contract faculty member for his or her outstanding teaching.

The Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer ’69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring honors a faculty member who is involved in the cocurricular and extracurricular life of the campus, and more importantly, has had a significant impact on students lives as an exceptional teacher, mentor, adviser and friend.

The GSAS Dean of Arts and Sciences Mentoring Award honors a faculty member for outstanding ability as a mentor of graduate students.

Social Sciences