Professor Jared Richman, Department of English

The Bemis Professorship recognizes a faculty member in the Humanities for their outstanding scholarship and teaching.  

Past recipients: Sanjaya Thakur, Genevieve Love, Corinne Scheiner, Jonathon Lee, Dave Mason

Glen Brooks Professorship for Innovation in Education

Professor Carrie Ruiz, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The professorship will be awarded to an exemplary tenured faculty member whose approach to teaching best exemplifies and advances the core mission of Colorado College. The goal of the professorship is to support continued academic innovation.

Past recipients: Elizabeth Coggins, Habiba Vaghoo

A.E. & Ethel Irene Carlton Professorship in Social Sciences

Professor Karen Roybal, Southwest Studies Program

The professorship recognizes a social-science faculty member for their outstanding scholarship and teaching in the Social Sciences. Albert Carlton was an early Cripple Creek mine owner and investor in the 1890s. The professorship was established by the Board of Trustees in recognition of the Carltons.

Past recipients: Santiago Guerra, Sarah Hautzinger, Kathy Giuffre, Eve Grace, Mario Montaño

Crown Family Endowed Professorship in Innovation in the Arts

Professor Dylan Nelson, Department of Film and Media

The professorship recognizes the excellence of a faculty member in the arts whose teaching and scholarly/creative work enhances the arts on campus through innovative approaches to the study of the arts, through the use of innovative techniques in the creative process, the development of new art forms, or other innovations in the creative practice and the study of the arts.

Past recipients:  Shawn Womack, Ryan Bañagale, Andrew Manley, Ofer Ben-Amots

Robert C. Fox Endowed Professorship

Professor Jason Weaver, Department of Psychology

The professorship honors a faculty member for their broad impact in teaching, scholarship and service to the college. The professorship was established from the bequest from the estate of Robert C. Fox ’58.

Past recipients:  Ibrahima Wade, Lori Driscoll, Kristi Erdal, Sandi Wong, Dave Hendrickson, Michael Grace

Thomas M. McKee Professorship in the Natural Sciences

Professor David Brown, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

The professorship recognizes the contributions of a faculty member in the natural sciences who provides leadership in the development of courses and teaching methods supporting active, independent learning by students in through cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary  teaching.

Past recipients: Sara Hanson, Shane Heschel, Christine Siddoway, Barbara Whitten, Marc Snyder, Bob Jacobs

NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities

Professor Rebecca Tucker, Department of Art

The professorship is awarded to a humanities faculty member for them to administer the endowment established by an CC-NEH matching challenge grant. The awardee for this unique professorship will have a plan for a 3-year program where the program activities will advance the teaching and learning of humanities in interdisciplinary ways through a range of activities funded by the endowment budget allocation. The goal of the activities is to enrich the teaching of the humanities across departments and programs, and programs may include seminars, faculty workshops, guest speakers, performances, book readings, new courses that are in the humanities or cross/interdisciplinary with humanistic fields.

Past recipients: Naomi Wood, Vicki Levine, Steven Hayward, Joan Ericson, Barry Sarchett

David and Lucile Packard Professorship

Professor Heidi Lewis, Feminist and Gender Studies Program

The professorship recognizes exemplary teaching and scholarship, with special emphasis on college-wide contributions.

Past recipients: Manya Whitaker, Andrew Price-Smith,  Tracy Coleman, Mario Montaño

Verner Z. Reed Professorship in Natural Sciences

Professor Murphy Brasuel, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

The professorship recognizes a faculty member for outstanding scholarship and teaching in the Natural Sciences.

Past recipient: Neena Grover, Ralph Bertrand,  Marlow Anderson, Paul Myrow, Mike Siddoway

Nancy B. & C. William Schlosser Professorship in the Arts

Professor Aline Lo, Department of English

The professorship recognizes a faculty member for outstanding scholarship and teaching in the arts.

Past recipient: Natanya Pulley, Jane Hilberry,  Rebecca Tucker, Kate Leonard

Ray O. Werner Professorship

Professor Dana Wolfe, Department of Political Science

This professorship recognizes the contributions of a tenured or tenure-track faculty who exemplifies and advanced the core mission at Colorado College.

Past recipients: Tina Valtierra, Elizabeth Coggins, Daniel Arroyo-Rodriguez, Miro Kummel, Wade Roberts, Rebecca Tucker, Brian Tucker, John Gould

Lloyd Edson Worner Distinguished Service Professorship

Professor Mike Taber, Department of Education

The professorship recognizes a faculty member for their college-wide leadership and service, and their exemplary success as a teacher-scholar.

Past recipients:  Jane Murphy, John Gould, Tip Ragan, Michael Grace