Established in 1999 - 2000 by the College's Board of Trustees, the annual awards recognize and reward two members of the Kenyon faculty for exemplary teaching informed by creative scholarship.
The Senior Award is awarded to a tenured level faculty member who has been teaching at Kenyon for at least ten years. The Junior Award is for either a tenured or tenure track faculty member who is in his or her first ten years at Kenyon. The awards, which carry $5,000 stipends, are intended to promote excellence by providing increased visibility for the College's most talented teacher-scholars.
Make a nomination for the awards by Friday, Nov. 5, 2021.
Nominations are made in the fall using the online nomination form and are submitted directly to the Office of the Provost. Winners will be announced at the Honors Day ceremony in the spring. All faculty members and students are encouraged to submit nominations for the awards. Letters of nomination, which will be reviewed by the president, provost, and associate provosts, need not be lengthy. They should, however, provide relevant detail in the form of anecdotes, data, examples, and testimony about the qualifications and strengths of a nominee. The reviewers will look for evidence of the capacity of a nominee's teaching to make a difference in students' lives.
The president, provost, and associate provosts will choose three finalists from each of the senior and junior faculty pools and forward their recommendations to the Curriculum and Faculty Committee of the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees will make its final choice in February.
2020 - 2021 Trustee Teaching Award
Senior Award: Steve Van Holde, Professor of Political Science and International Studies
Junior Award: Erin Leatherman, Assistant Professor of Statistics
2019 - 2020 Trustee Teaching Award
Senior Award: H. Abbie Erler, Associate Professor of Political Science
Junior Award: Patrick Bottiger, Associate Professor of History
2018 - 2019 Trustee Teaching Award
Senior Award: Bob Milnikel, Professor of Mathematics
Junior Award: Austin Porter, Assistant Professor of Art History & American Studies
2017 - 2018 Trustee Teaching Award
Senior Award: Karen Hicks, Associate Professor of Biology
Junior Award: James McGavran, Assistant Professor of Russian
1989
Junior: Kimberly McMullen
Senior: Dorothy Jegla
1990
Junior: Ellen Furlough
Senior: Harry Clor
1991
Junior: David Harrington
Senior: Owen York
1992
Junior: Benjamin Locke
Senior: Perry Lentz
1993
Junior: Timothy Shutt
Senior: Linda Metzler
1994
Junior: Juan DePascuale
Senior: Royal Rhodes
1995
Junior: Harry Itagaki
Senior: Margaret Patton
1996
Junior: Brad Hartlaub
Senior: Don Rogan
1997
Junior: Rosemary Marusak
Senior: William McCulloh
1998
Junior: Michael Brint
Senior: Pamela Jensen
1999
Junior: Scott Cummings
Senior: Fred Baumann
1999 - 2000
Senior: Roy T. Wortman, Professor of History
Junior: Carolin Hahnemann, Assistant Professor of Classics
2000 - 2001
Senior: Reed S. Browning, Professor of History
Junior: Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Associate Professor of English
2001 - 2002
Senior: Linda M. Smolak, Professor of Psychology
Junior: Christopher M. Gillen, Assistant Professor of Biology
2002 - 2003
Senior: Michael P. Levine, Professor of Psychology
Junior: Judy A. Holdener, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
2003 - 2004
Senior: Peter Rutkoff, Professor of American Studies
Junior: Jonathan Tazewell, Associate Professor of Drama
2004 - 2005
Senior: Carol Schumacher, Professor of Mathematics
Junior: Natalia Olshanskaya, Associate Professor of Russian
2005 - 2006
Senior: Theodore O. Mason, Professor of English
Junior: Wade H. Powell, Assistant Professor of Biology
2006 - 2007
Senior: Thomas S. Turgeon, Professor of Drama
Junior: Adam C. Serfass, Assistant Professor of Classics
2007 - 2008
Senior: David Suggs, Professor of Anthropology
Junior: Glenn McNair, Assistant Professor of History
2008 - 2009
Senior: Perry Lentz, Charles P. McIlvaine Professor of English
Junior: Robert Mauck, Associate Professor of Biology
2009 - 2010
Senior: Sarah Murnen, Professor of Psychology
Junior: Sarah Heidt, Assistant Professor of English
2010 - 2011
Senior: Pamela Camerra -Rowe, Associate Professor of Political Science
Junior: Ivonne Garcia, Assistant Professor of English
2011 - 2012
Senior: Jianhua Bai, Professor of Chinese
Junior: Jaret Treber, Associate Professor of Economics
2012 - 2013
Senior: Pamela Jensen, Professor of Political Science
Junior: John Hofferberth, Associate Professor of Chemistry
2013 - 2014
Senior: Katherine Elkins, Associate Professor of
Comparative Literature and Humanities
Junior: Zoë Kontes, Associate Professor of Classics
2014 - 2015
Senior: Jay Corrigan, Professor of Economics
Junior: Irene López, Associate Professor of Psychology
2015 - 2016
Senior: Paula Turner, Professor of Physics
Junior: Pashmina Murthy, Assistant Professor of English
2016 - 2017
Senior: Clara Román-Odio, Professor of Spanish
Junior: Jacqueline McAllister, Assistant Professor of Political Science