Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award

The Dean's Outstanding Teaching Award recognizes exceptional achievements in teaching and creative activity by teaching-track scholars who have recently been promoted. The award winners were selected in consultation with the Arts & Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee after having reviewed the promotion cases in the current year.

Current Recipients

2026
Marshall Klimasewiski
Teaching Professor of English

Karl Schaefer
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics

Past Recipients: 

2025
Matthew Shipe 
Teaching Professor in English

Anthony Smith 
Teaching Professor in Biology 

2024
Silas Johnson
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics

Nicole Svobodny
Teaching Professor of Global Studies