Faculty Teaching Awards
Every year, the School of Politics and Global Studies asks students to nominate a faculty member for an outstanding teaching award. Winners are announced at the School of Politics and Global Studies Annual Recognition Ceremony during the spring semester.
Michael Mitchell Outstanding Teaching Award Recipients
Professor Michael J. Mitchell was an expert in Afro-Latino and Afro-Brazilian politics and culture, who died in 2015. He left a legacy of more than four decades of teaching and research.
Upon his passing, students shared their stories of how he kept them in school and turned their lives around. Our advisors have shared that they routinely sent troubled students to him knowing that he would take them under his wing.
The faculty chose to honor Professor Mitchell by renaming the School’s faculty teaching award in his honor.
- 2022 - Jennet Kirkpatrick
- 2021 - James Strickland
- 2020 - Henry Thomson
- 2019 - Richard Herrera
- 2018 - Henry Sivak
- 2017 - Avital Simhony
- 2016 - Charles Ripley
- 2015 - Tara Lennon
- 2014 - Gina Woodall
- 2013 - David Siroky
- 2012 - Roxanne Doty
- 2011 - Shannon Wheatley
- 2010 - Carolyn Warner
- 2009 - Robert Youngblood
- 2008 - Patrick Kenney
- 2007 - Richard Ashley
- 2006 - Jack Crittenden
- 2005 - Richard Herrera
- 2004 - Robert Youngblood
- 2003 - Colin Elman
- 2002 - Glen Krutz
- 2001 - Michael Mitchell and Avital Simhony
- 2000 - Jack Crittenden
- 1999 - Patrick Kenney
- 1998 - Avital Simhony
- 1997 - Kenneth Goldstein
- 1996 - Richard Olson
- 1995 - Kim Fridkin
- 1994 - Pat McGowan
- 1993 - John Stookey
- 1992 - Michael Mitchell
- 1991 - George Watson
- 1990 - Jack Crittenden
- 1989 - John Geer
- 1988 - Patrick Kenney
- 1987 - Donald Wold
- 1986 - Mark Reader
- 1985 - John Stookey
- 1984 - Richard Dagger
- 1982 - George Watson
- 1981 - Elijah Kaminsky
Instructional Faculty Member Teaching Award Recipients
- 2022 - Gina Woodall
- 2021 - Charles Ripley
- 2020 - Daniel Pout