Click on a name below to view the citation for that award recipient. Citations available from 1999 forward.

1997
Elizabeth Kirk (English)
Stanley K. Stowers (Religious Studies)
Susan Smulyan (American Civilization)
John L. Thomas (History)
William F. Wyatt, Jr. (Classics)
Rebecca S. More (History; Sheridan Center)

1998
Peter Heywood (Bio - MCB)
Kenneth R. Miller (Bio - MCB)

1999
George H. Borts (Economics)
Jonathan K. Waage (Bio - EEB)
Thomas G. Goodwillie (Mathematics)

2000
Jan A. Tullis (Geological Sciences)
Patricia Herlihy (History)

2001
Sheila Bonde (History of Art & Architecture)
James T. McIlwain (Bio - Neuroscience)
Andries van Dam (Computer Science)

2002
Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Anthropology; Old World Archaeology & Art)
Lundy Braun (Bio - Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Environmental Studies; Africana Studies)

2003
Nancy R. Dunbar (Theater, Speech & Dance; Associate Provost)
Lawrence F. Wakeford (Education)

2004
Beth W. Bauer (Hispanic Studies)
Lawrence K. Stanley (English)

2005
Mari Jo Buhle (American Civilization; History)
Anne Fausto-Sterling (Bio - MCB)
Leonard Tennenhouse (English; Comparative Literature; MCM)

2006
Kate Lynn Lapane (Bio - Community Health)
Kathryn T. Spoehr (Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences)

2007
John J.Stein (Bio-Med Neuroscience)
Meiqing Zhang (East Asian Studies)

1999

George H. Borts (Economics)
The 2000 Sheridan award recognizes the many efforts you have made during a long and notable career at Brown on behalf of integrating teaching and research as a fundamental goal of your discipline. As a distinguished scholar, your willingness to take the time to mentor graduate teaching assistants and junior colleagues has inspired your department. They have applauded your patient and ongoing efforts to transform Economics 11 into a productive learning experience and have credited you with much of the success to date for this major undertaking. The Advisory Board of the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning honors you for your long-standing support of teaching in your department and for the example which you have set for your colleagues.
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Jonathan K. Waage (Bio - EEB)
The 2000 Sheridan Award recognizes the many efforts you have made on behalf of integrating teaching and research, both within your discipline and across the University. Your mentoring of graduate teaching assistants and junior colleagues is so exemplary that your department has cited you for it. In addition to being known for your innovative teaching in courses such as Bio 45 Animal Behavior: Ecological and Evolutionary Determinants, you have developed teaching methodologies which enhance the entire departmental curriculum. Your colleagues have noted your impressive contributions to the educational enterprise of the University, including your work as a long-standing member of the College Curriculum Council, as an active supporter of the WISE program, and as a Faculty Teaching Fellow of the Sheridan Center. The Advisory Board of the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning honors you for your long-standing support of teaching in your department and for the inspiring example which you have set for your colleagues all across the University.
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Thomas G. Goodwillie (Mathematics)
The 2000 Sheridan Award recognizes the profound impact your leadership in furthering departmental engagement with pedagogy has had on both faculty and graduate students in the department of Mathematics. As a distinguished scholar, your commitment to take the time to actively mentor graduate teaching assistants through a variety of activities has inspired your colleagues. In particular, you have been cited for your dedicated work in making the annual training program for Mathematics graduate teaching assistants "serious", and for leading a departmental seminar on teaching. You have been lauded for having "practiced what you preached" in the introductory Calculus course (MA 9). Furthermore, your colleagues recognize that your commitment to ongoing improvement in both teaching and research as resulted in the NSF-VIGRE award to the departments of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. The Advisory Board of the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning honors you for your superb support of teaching in your department and for the example which you have set for your colleagues.
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2000

Jan A. Tullis (Geological Sciences)
You were nominated by your colleagues in the department of Geological Sciences in recognition of your outstanding success in integrating teaching and research as a fundamental goal of your discipline. As a distinguished scholar in your field, your willingness to take the time to mentor graduate TAs and junior faculty to take teaching seriously demonstrates this commitment and vision. Your tireless and long-standing work in developing and nurturing an annual departmental seminar on teaching for graduate students and your crucial role in supporting their interest in Sheridan Center resources is of especial note. The Advisory Board of the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning honors you for your dedicated support of teaching in your department and for the inspiring example which you have set for your colleagues across the University.
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Patricia Herlihy (History)
You were nominated by your colleagues, both faculty and graduate students, in the department of History in recognition of your success in demonstrating that both teaching and research are a fundamental goal of the discipline of History and in the interdisciplinary field of International Relations. As part of your work as an active scholar and departmental administrator, you have consistently devoted precious time to support fellow faculty members and to mentor graduate students. The committee was especially impressed by the appreciation of your colleagues for your quiet, but effective, mentoring of these fledgling historians. The Advisory Board of the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning honors you for your support of teaching in your department and for the example which you have set for all members of the University community.
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2001

Sheila Bonde (History of Art & Architecture)
Your colleagues in the department of History of Art and Architecture have recognized you for your many efforts to mentor junior faculty colleagues, and to inspire the graduate students in the department to be good as teachers as well as good scholars. As a distinguished interdisciplinary scholar, you have demonstrated a commitment to finding thoughtful pedagogy and new media to promote learning by all students. Your creative approach to using electronic technology to integrate your research with your teaching will spread your influence far beyond the confines of Brown University. Your web site for the archaeological investigations at St. Jean des Vignes at Soissons, France has brought international cooperation and will benefit students of all ages around the world. We honor you for the inspiring example that you have set for your colleagues across the University.
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James T. McIlwain (Bio - Neuroscience)
Your colleagues in the department of Bio-Med Neuroscience have nominated you as the model of a renowned, multi-disciplinary, scholar whose in teaching is predicated on student learning. Your were cited for your unstinting willingness to mentor graduate students and junior faculty, and for your ability to communicate in a multiplicity of disciplinary languages, including Classics and Medieval Studies, as well as Neuroscience. You have demonstrated and reaffirmed the essential value of the liberal arts as a medium for intellectual growth. Your efforts to develop a departmental seminar for graduate students inspired many of them to take advantage of the Sheridan Center resources and to develop a reflective teaching practice. A significant number have gone on to become Sheridan Center Teaching Consultants and to help graduate student colleagues across the University reflect upon the efficacy of their own pedagogical goals and objectives. We honor you for the example of collegial support across disciplines that you have set for all members of the University.
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Andries van Dam (Computer Science)
Colleagues, both in and beyond your own department of Computer Science, have nominated you for this award in recognition of the example you have established as a pioneer in computer science education. Beginning with a course you developed in 1962, you set the standard for the field as it became an academic discipline. As a world-renowned scholar, your willingness to take precious time to mentor graduate students and junior faculty has set an example for your colleagues. Your development of a training course for your undergraduate teaching assistants is a model for faculty across the University to emulate. Your generous participation in Sheridan Center programs and publications, beginning with your work with Dean Sheridan, informs and inspires students and colleagues across the disciplines with your educational vision. The tangible results of this commitment to the educational value of electronic technology are seen each spring in the products developed by the students in CS 152 Educational Software. We honor you for your dedicated support of pedagogy as an integral part of scholarship.
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2002

Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Anthropology; Old World Archaeology & Art)
Colleagues in the department of Anthropology nominated Prof. Joukowsky as the model of a distinguished, multi-disciplinary, scholar whose in teaching is predicated on student learning. She was cited for her work to encourage pedagogical excellence among graduate students in the department as the long-term Faculty Liaison to the Sheridan Center . She includes both graduate and undergraduate students on her annual summer expeditions to Petra and uses this opportunity to help graduate students see how to productively integrate undergraduate teaching with research year-round. Her obvious passion for her work as a scholar and a teacher is an inspiration to her departmental colleagues. One colleague noted that graduate students constantly remark upon her assistance in helping them think about their teaching. Another commented, “Martha Joukowsky is a devoted teacher who is as eager about improving her own pedagogical skills as she is in imparting them to others.”
Prof. Joukowsky was praised because “She epitomizes precisely those qualities that…Harriet Sheridan had in mind when she developed Brown's Center for Teaching and Learning.” Indeed, Prof. Joukowsky and her husband, former Chancellor Artemis A. W. Joukowsky worked closely with Dean Sheridan from the Center's inception as the Center for the Advancement of College Teaching to support graduate teaching assistants become reflective members of the future professoriate. Among their collaborative efforts was the groundbreaking videotape Effective Teaching for Dyslexic/All College Students , which has reached both national and international faculty audiences. Not least, Prof. Joukowsky has chaired the Center's Advisory Board since Dean Sheridan's death in 1992 and led the Center during its evolution into a full-fledged resource for Brown's faculty as well as its graduate students. The Sheridan Award honors her whole-hearted, long-term, commitment to the entire University teaching community.
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Lundy Braun (Bio - Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Environmental Studies; Africana Studies)
A well-recognized scholar in the field of papillomaviruses and cervical cancer, Prof. Braun was recognized by her colleagues for the many ways in which her fundamental teaching philosophy has influenced her junior and senior faculty colleagues, both within and beyond her department. She was cited for encouraging active learning in both lectures and case-based laboratory sessions. Colleagues noted the example she sets as a faculty member who worked to ensure that learning in her course was integrated into the departmental curriculum. A junior colleague from outside her department observed that her work across disciplines is a model for integrating teaching and research and praised her generous, collegial, insightful, mentoring beyond departmental confines. A graduate student commented that Prof. Braun helps students to constantly self-evaluate their performance as a teacher – the essential component in developing a reflective teaching practice. In sum, Prof. Braun fulfills each criteria of the Sheridan Award.
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2003

Nancy R. Dunbar (Theater, Speech & Dance; Associate Provost)
You were nominated by your colleagues in the department of Theatre, Speech and Dance in recognition of your extraordinary efforts in the cause of professional development across the University. For some twenty years your patient work in promoting effective communication across the disciplines has affected members of the Brown community from graduate students to endowed professors. As department chair, you helped colleagues review the departmental curriculum, its standards and criteria, and its teaching evaluations - critical elements in professional development which have a positive impact on educational outcomes. Through the Rhetoric Fellows program, you helped faculty and students use class presentations as a more effective learning experience and, simultaneously, trained a generation of undergraduate Rhetoric Fellows to help other students improve their ability to communicate their ideas. Your work with colleague Barbara Tannenbaum to offer a Faculty Seminar on communication skills and techniques and a seminar on seminar on Gender and Communication appealed to faculty across the disciplines. They are legendary amongst those lucky enough to attend. Your annual lecture on "Teaching as Persuasive Communication" attracts faculty and graduate students from across the campus and RISD. Your colleagues across the university use words like "selfless" and "extraordinarily effective" in describing your capacity to help colleagues define and communicate goals and objectives which support the educational mission of the University. The Advisory Board of the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning celebrates your dedicated support of professional development in your department and across the University.
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Lawrence F. Wakeford (Education)
Your colleagues and former students have nominated you for this award for your advancement of the teaching profession both at Brown and across the state of Rhode Island. As a result of your efforts, you have linked science education in the University with secondary schools. One colleague noted that "to very many of his students, he is exactly the model of the teacher they would wish to become." A student observed that "he models reflective teaching practice: he de-mystifies the thought process behind his teaching choices." Your work beyond your department on behalf of thoughtful professional development has helped secondary school teachers across the state of Rhode Island as well as benefited faculty and graduate students at Brown. Your work at the state level to develop standards for the preparation and performance of new teachers and diversity standards for the Teacher Education Program Approval Process models professional planning for sound educational outcomes. Your particular concern for assessment techniques which foster substantive, deep, learning have been communicated across the disciplines in many different ways, including through the College Curriculum Council and the Sheridan Center. The Advisory Board of the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning honors you for your support of professional development within in your department, across the University community, and throughout secondary education in the state of Rhode Island.
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2004

Beth W. Bauer (Hispanic Studies)
The Sheridan Award recognizes faculty contribution to pedagogical professional development at Brown University . Your colleagues celebrated your superb classroom teaching, your well-recognized scholarship in the field, and your endeavors to strengthen teaching by graduate students and faculty colleagues across the University through the agency of the Center for Language Studies.
You have run the comprehensive Hispanic Studies Training Program for Teaching Assistants and Associates, which includes the development of guidelines for this constituency, an orientation practicum , a graduate course on language pedagogy theory and methodology and run the department's Writing Center . With graduate students and colleague Victoria Smith, you worked to revise some of the most challenging courses in the curriculum.
Under your leadership as Director, the Center for Language Studies (CLS) has developed a substantive program for Brown graduate students who need assistance with English as a second language (ESL). Your innovative program, Cultura , fosters real-time cultural exchange through electronic technology. Current and projected CLS projects will transform teaching in the languages across the University and beyond. You have brought people together from across the University and motivated them to develop and implement goals.
As one colleague eloquently wrote "Prof. Bauer meets and does honor to every tenet of the Sheridan Award." With this Sheridan Award medal, the Advisory Board of the Sheridan Center celebrates your unceasing efforts to constantly reflect upon and improve the quality of teaching and learning amongst your colleagues at Brown.
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Lawrence K. Stanley (English)
The Sheridan Award recognizes faculty contribution to pedagogical professional development at Brown University . Your colleagues cited you for your skills as a mentor, for your collaborative leadership of departmental initiatives to support learning, and for your internationally recognized scholarly efforts to integrate research and teaching across the curriculum.
Graduate students in your course "Pedagogy and Composition Theory" recognized your ability to empower them to teach a composition course with confidence and success. As one colleague wrote, "Graduate students in English, who had always taken their eloquence for granted, learned from Larry's trenches what it felt like to move through challenging stages of reflective learning before they actually taught such a class." Many of these graduate students have gone on to become successful directors of writing programs in higher education across the country. Faculty in other departments have also drawn upon your expertise to the benefit of their graduate students.
The innovative Expository Writing Program, developed with colleague Elizabeth Taylor, has attracted nation-wide attention to Brown because it combines academic writing with writing for real-world professions. This program has become an integral part of the English department's educational mission at Brown. Colleagues cited the program's website as a "brilliant" resource for faculty world-wide. Your forthcoming book on the nature and practice of aesthetic reading and writing will inspire innovation and discussion across the profession and the disciplines.
With this Sheridan Award Medal, the Advisory Board of the Sheridan Center celebrates your dedicated support of professional development in your department and across the University.
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2005

Mari Jo Buhle (American Civilization; History)
Your colleagues in both History and American Civilization cited you for your skills as a mentor for the professional development of graduate students and junior faculty in both departments. In the path-breaking, interdisciplinary field of women's history your graduate students learned to integrate and develop both their teaching and research skills so that the field was accessible to non-experts. Your mentoring of junior faculty encouraged their development both as faculty and as active participants in the process of University governance.
You are especially noted for your meticulous attention to the pedagogical professional development of your graduate teaching assistants, providing them with detailed feedback on both their teaching and scholarship. Your sponsorship of a professional development seminar within the American Civilization department has benefited a generation of successful faculty across the nation.
During the many years you were chair of American Civilization, you mentored a cohort of junior colleagues through the tenure and promotion process and helped them understand the intricacies of University governance. You model your commitment to teaching, scholarship and service to the University for your junior colleagues.
With this Sheridan Award Medal, the Advisory Board of the Sheridan Center celebrates your dedicated support of professional development in your department and across the University.
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Anne Fausto-Sterling (Bio - MCB)
Colleagues and former students in the departments of Bio-MCB, Pathobiology and Sociology nominated you this award for your powerful skills as a mentor of graduate students and junior faculty across disciplines; for your leadership in revising departmental standards on teaching; and for your ability to help colleagues rethink traditional ideas about science, which have transformed the study of science and gender. You have been involved in professional development which improves the communication of new ideas across disciplines by both faculty and students throughout your career.
Your research in biology led you to bring more women into the field, and to link research in biology to social and political contexts. You developed innovative pedagogical techniques which have helped over a generation of colleagues, graduate students and lay people alike to understand the benefits of interdisciplinary, collaborative, research and teaching. Among the results of your efforts was the creation of the interdisciplinary concentration in Science and Society in 2004, the advocacy of diversity within the faculty, and the modeling of the significance of service to the University.
With this Sheridan Award medal, the Advisory Board of the Sheridan Center celebrates your unceasing efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning at Brown.
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Leonard Tennenhouse (English; Comparative Literature; MCM)
Your extraordinary efforts to provide substantive professional development for graduate students was recognized by your colleagues and former students in the department of English. Your own interdisciplinary work in three departments inspires graduate students across the disciplines to consider innovative ways of integrating teaching and research which challenges traditional boundaries.
The seminar you developed to help graduate students prepare for and find employment in academia is cited for emphasizing performance as both teacher and scholar. The seminar enhances the perception of graduate students that they are an important part of the professional life of the department. This empowers them to more effectively present their research and teaching qualifications when interviewing at other institutions of higher education. Your involvement of junior faculty in the seminar has facilitated their professional development and provided a model of effective mentoring for them. As a result, the English department's professional development seminar serves as a model for other departments across the University.
With this Sheridan Award medal, the Advisory Board of the Sheridan Center recognizes your significant contribution to the quality of teaching and learning at Brown.
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2006

Kate Lynn Lapane (Bio - Community Health)
Your colleagues in the department of Bio-Med Community Health have nominated you for this award in recognition of tireless advocacy of “meaningful graduate education” in Community Health. Your leadership in establishing programs, such as a Journal Club and a Faculty Forum, to realize this goal has created a culture of exchange about professional development within the department. You have taken especial care to train the graduate students to solicit and use feedback to improve their teaching and presentation skills. The Faculty Forum enables graduate students to discuss career paths with faculty from diverse professional experiences. In order to support a revision of the department's graduate curriculum, you have designed professional development opportunities for faculty to ensure that the students achieve its goals. As a result, you have brought both on-campus and adjunct/voluntary faculty together to provide Brown graduate students in Community Health with a new doctoral program in Health Services Research.
You are especially noted for your superb work as a mentor not only to fledgling members of the field: graduate students, young research faculty, post-doctoral fellows in medicine and visiting scholars, but to your senior colleagues as well. One distinguished teacher in the department noted that your generous support of colleagues with assistance and advice “would make Harriet Sheridan proud.”
With this Sheridan Award Medal, the Advisory Board of the Sheridan Center celebrates your dedicated support of professional development in your department and across the University.
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Kathryn T. Spoehr (Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences)
Colleagues from across the University have nominated you for the Sheridan Award in recognition of your work as a mentor of graduate students and junior faculty on pedagogy and professional development within your discipline, for your initiative in working to bring other related fields together with your department to build a broad-based reflective teaching practice, and for your tireless leadership in fostering pedagogy in the research environment of higher education.
Junior colleagues have noted that you support their development as new members of the department and the University in a way that encourages them to achieve professional goals without fear of failure. You model for them the rewards of advising graduate and undergraduate students and the benefits of interdisciplinary teaching. Your leadership of the department's professional development workshop for graduate students meets the disparate needs of graduate students in both cognitive and linguistic sciences. Graduate students cited not only your commitment to their education, but your ability to work with them as colleagues. They feel that you have made “support of graduate student teaching a priority in the department.”
Your commitment to the professional development of teaching on a University-wide level received accolades from colleagues across the campus. Your support was crucial for the transition of the Sheridan Center from a program to assist graduate students prepare for successful academic careers to a resource on all aspects of pedagogy for faculty as well. One colleague noted that in each position you have held in the University, from faculty member to Provost, you have always been “cognizant that the Sheridan Center was key to Brown's ability to provide ongoing professional development that integrates reflective teaching and research.”
The Advisory Board of the Sheridan Center celebrates your unceasing efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning at Brown.
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2007

John J. Stein (Bio-Med Neuroscience)
Colleagues from across the University cited you for your outstanding reputation for leadership in the pedagogy of biology, whether in higher or elementary and secondary education. One colleague described you as "a tireless and inspiring mentor to a small army of graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants" during your twelve years at Brown. Your work in mentoring graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants in responsible pedagogy is founded on your own teaching style. Your ability to collaborate with colleagues in co-teaching complex courses models the fundamental collegiality of pedagogy which promotes learning. Your work with TAs at all levels inspires teamwork through the exchange of ideas and an understanding that sound pedagogy is based on ongoing reflection and revision. Your support for connecting the pedagogy of biology between higher education and local schools and community programs, benefits some 1,000 students each year through Brain Awareness Week. The prestigious NIH Science Education Partnership grant (A.R.I.S.E.), awarded to you and colleagues in Education and Summer & Continuing Studies, will advance local science education. Your ability to bring together colleagues within and across disciplines promotes interdisciplinary pedagogy and helps students understand intellectual connections, rather than mere disciplinary distinctions. In sum, you exemplify mentoring which empowers other to teach complex scientific concepts effectively and imaginatively to a broad spectrum of students. With this inscribed Sheridan Award Medal, the Advisory Board of the Sheridan Center celebrates your dedicated support of professional development in your department and across the University.
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Meiqing Zhang (East Asian Studies)
Your colleagues in East Asian Studies have nominated you in recognition of your skills as a mentor of faculty colleagues in pedagogy within the discipline of Chinese language, for your support for pedagogical innovation amongst the members of your department, and for your scholarship in pedagogy within your field. Since 1988 your success in training others to be effective instructors of Chinese has resulted in the international reputation of the Brown program. You model the need for constant adaptation to ever-changing pedagogy in your field, whether in the incorporation of new discoveries in cognitive and linguistic sciences or the application of electronic technologies to empower student learning. Your research into pedagogy has led to the recent publication of an innovative approach to teaching first year Chinese, a new book on teaching grammar, and a book on teaching advanced Chinese. No less important is the vital work you have done in managing the entire educational experience of the study abroad program in China. Your ability to simultaneously manage complex and effective learning environments for students in different parts of the world was cited for ensuring that a Brown education in Chinese will have positive results long after graduation. With this inscribed Sheridan Award Medal, the Advisory Board of the Sheridan Center celebrates your dedicated support of professional development in your department and across the University.
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