Overview
More information on the faculty member can be found by clicking on their name, and undergraduate classes they are teaching in the 2011-2012 academic year are highlighted. In addition to course offerings, many of these faculty work with undergraduates through independent reading, independent research, or other projects. We encourage you to search for additional opportunities to work with these Award-Winning Teachers in Explore Courses.
Walter J. Gores Award
The Gores Award is the University's highest award for excellence in teaching. As the University's highest award for teaching, the Gores Award celebrates achievement in educational activities that include lecturing, tutoring, advising, and discussion leading.
Professor Pavle Levi
Art and Art History
Winter - FILMSTUD 4: Introduction to Film Study
Spring - FILMSTUD 102: Theories of the Moving Image
Professor Robert Siegel
Microbiology and Immunology, Human Biology, Center for African Studies
Autumn - HUMBIO 155B: The Vaccine Revolution
Autumn - HUMBIO 155H: Humans and Viruses I
Autumn - MI 70Q: Photographing Nature
Autumn - MI 18SC: The Coming Influenza Pandemic
Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education
Established in 2001, the Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program recognizes faculty for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education, including faculty from the graduate and professional schools.
Professor Mark Applebaum
Music
Autumn - MUSIC 36N: Humor in Music
Winter - MUSIC 156: "sic": Improvisation Collective
Professor Russell Berman
Comparative Literature
Autumn - COMPLIT 12SC: Ghost Stories: Why the Dead Return and What They Want From Us
Spring - GERGEN 128N: Medicine, Modernism, and Mysticism in Thomas Mann's the Magic Mountain
Professor Carol Boggs
Human Biology
Autumn - HUMBIO 2A: Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology
Winter - BIO 144: Conservation Biology (HUMBIO 112)
Professor Rob Reich
Political Science
Autumn, Winter, Spring - ETHICSOC 8SI: What Are They Thinking?
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ASSU Teaching Award
This is a student-nominated teaching award.
Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize
The Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize recognizes not only excellence in teaching but also the ability to inspire personal and intellectual development beyond the classroom. This may include, but is not limited to, encouraging critical and analytical thinking, taking an active interest in students as individuals, and influencing the way students think about the world. Every year, members of Phi Beta Kappa present an award to an outstanding member of the faculty. Nominations are accepted from members of the senior class. The winner is then selected by a panel of Seniors in Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor James Campbell
History
Autumn - AFRICAAM 47: History of South Africa (HISTORY 47)
Autumn - HISTORY 21SC: Celluloid America: Explorations in Film and History
Winter - HISTORY 56N: Celluloid America: Explorations in Film and History
Winter - HISTORY 208S: Facing the Past: The Politics of Retrospective Justice
Dr. St. Clair Drake Teaching Award
This award is presented to a faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching. The ideal candidate for this award has inspired students intellectually and demonstrated a commitment to enhancing the intellectual vitality/academic environment of the Black community.
Lecturer Jennifer Schwartz
Chemistry
Autumn - CHEM 31A: Chemical Principles I
Autumn - CHEM 31AC: Problem Solving in Science
Winter - CHEM 31B: Chemical Principles II
Winter - CHEM 31BC: Problem Solving in Science
Winter, Spring, Summer - CHEM 33: Structure and Reactivity
Spring - CHEM 33C: Problem Solving in Science
Dr. St. Clair Drake Teaching Award
Asian American Center Faculty Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize the contributions of an outstanding professor who has represented the Asian American community at Stanford by enhancing undergraduate and graduate education or community.
Professor Christine Min Wotipka
School of Education
Autumn - EDUC 100A: EAST House Seminar: Current Issues and Debates in Education
Winter - EDUC 100B: EAST House Seminar: Current Issues and Debates in Education
Spring - ASNAMST 100C: EAST House Seminar: Current Issues and Debates in Education (EDUC 100C)
Spring - EDUC 197: Education, Gender, and Development (SOC 134)
Asian American Center Faculty Award
Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching (H&S)
Established in 1975, the Dean’s Award recognizes the efforts of exceptional teachers in the School of Humanities and Sciences. The award is given for excellence in graduate education, achievements in teaching, and first years of teaching at Stanford.
Professor Dan Edelstein
French and Italian
Autumn -FRENLIT 38N: Coffee & Cigarettes: The Making of French Intellectual Culture
Spring - BIO 167: Social Animals, Social Revolutions and Social Networks (CS 81G, FRENGEN 167)
Spring - IHUM 3: Epic Journeys, Modern Quests
Professor Hazel Markus
Psychology
Spring - ENGLISH 64N: Growing Up in America (PSYCH 29N)
Professor Ken Schultz
Political Science
Winter - POLISCI 110D: War and Peace in American Foreign Policy (POLISCI 110Y)
Spring - OSPOXFRD 41: Europe and US Foreign Policy
Professor Anthony Wagner
Psychology
Spring - PSYCH 45: Introduction to Learning and Memory
Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching (H&S)
Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award (School of Engineering)
This award is a singular honor awarded to one professor, assistant professor, or associate professor from the School of Engineering each year in recognition of his or her dedication to teaching undergraduates. To be worthy of this award, a professor must go beyond simply explaining the material or getting midterms back on time. This sort of teacher is exceptional in front of the class, welcoming and useful during office hours, and devoted in all aspects of the learning process.
Professor Marc Levenston
Mechanical Engineering
Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award (School of Engineering)
Excellence in Teaching (School of Earth Sciences)
This award was established in 1982 to acknowledge and recognize faculty's dedication to quality teaching.
Professor Margot Gerritsen
Energy Resources Engineering
Spring - EARTHSYS 102: Renewable Energy Sources and Greener Energy Processes (ENERGY 102)
Excellence in Teaching (School of Earth Sciences)
Allan Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research
The Cox medal is awarded to a faculty person who has established a record of excellence directing undergraduate research over a number of years. It may also go to a faculty member who has done an especially outstanding job with just one or two undergraduates whose work is unusually superior.
Professor Garry Gold
School of Medicine, Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology)
Winter - OSPFLOR 66: Da Vinci: Renaissance Understanding of Anatomy
Winter - OSPFLOR 76: Da Vinci to Morgagni: Development of Modern Medicine and Pathology
Allan Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research
