Office of Undergraduate Affairs

Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching

The Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching honors an individual for their outstanding teaching. 

The $2,500 award is presented annually at the April faculty meeting.

Faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to submit nominations. The recipient is selected by the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs upon the recommendation of a committee consisting of three faculty, including previous Teaching Prize recipients, in consultation with the Senior Associate Provost of Academic Affairs. Decisions are based on nomination letters, teaching evaluations, Faculty Activity Reports and CVs. Submit a nomination.

2026 Recipient | Chandler Rosenberger, Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Global Studies

Nominator Comments

• “Prof. Chandler Rosenberger's teaching skills are outstanding. He teaches interesting and insightful classes. He was always able to put profound theories in an easy to understand way and make them accessible to me [...] Prof. Chandler Rosenberger is one of the best and most conscientious professors I have ever experienced at Brandeis University.”
• “Outside the classroom, he’s one of the most approachable professors I’ve met. He’s always up for a conversation about anything, and he genuinely cares about his students—not just academically but as people figuring out college and life. Even just running into him on campus, he’ll say hi in such a friendly, down-to-earth way—never condescending, always warm.”

Past Recipients