Prize-winning Teachers: Department of History

Prize-winning Teachers

Kevin Boyle speaking at McCormick Teaching Award ceremony (photo by Matthew Kaplan)

Kevin Boyle and spouse Victoria Getis, Director of Teaching & Learning Technologies (Kaplan)

2019 Weinberg Teaching Award Recipients (photo by Genie Lemieux)

Joy Sales (r) with Professor Ji-Yeon Yuh (Lemieux)

Professor Henry Binford (center) with Dean Adrian Randolph (l) and Professor Ken Alder (r) (Lemieux)

Melanie Hall (second from left) with Dean Adrian Randolph and Professors Laura Hein and Ken Alder (Lemieux)

McCormick Teaching Awards

Weinberg Teaching Awards

These exemplary faculty demonstrate excellence in classroom teaching and represent innovative curricular leadership across the university.”

Office of the Provost, University Teaching Awards

We were proud and pleased this year that a historian won Northwestern’s most prestigious teaching award, the Charles Deering McCormick Professorship, bestowed by the Provost. Kevin Boyle’s one-sentence statement of his approach: “I need students to know that history is an analytical discipline centered not on the facts themselves, but on interpretation which rests on rigorous argument and precise prose.”

Three other historians won WCAS teaching award this year: Professor Henry Binford was the recipient of the E. LeRoy Hall Award for 2018-19, and two of our graduate students, Joy Sales and Melanie Hall, won teaching prizes.

As we all know, good teaching requires tremendous energy, imagination, and commitment. It is inspiring to watch them at their work.

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