Named Professorships and Faculty Teaching Awards

At the heart of an exceptional liberal arts education are the dedicated and inspiring faculty who bring it to life—through their teaching, research, mentorship, and leadership in the campus community. Named professorships honor those faculty members whose outstanding contributions embody the highest ideals of our academic mission. Whether in the classroom, the lab, the studio, here on campus and in the field, we recognize through these professorships faculty members who enrich our shared intellectual life.  These individuals have demonstrated a deep commitment to student learning and whose work continues to shape and strengthen CC in extraordinary ways.

College-wide Professorships

Judson Bemis Professorship in the Humanities      

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                                  

 

Departmental Professorships

Department of Classics

Moses Clement Gile Classics Chair

Professor Owen Cramer

                 

Department of Comparative Literature

Catherine & Lewis B Maytag Professorship

Professor Bill Davis

Past recipients: Corinne Scheiner, Lisa Hughes

 

Department of Education

Manya Whitaker Endowed Professorship

Professor Juan Miguel Arias

Past recipient: Nickie Coomer

                 

Department of Economics and Business

Bill Barton Professorship

Professor Michelan Wilson

Past recipients: Kat Miller-Stevens, Christina Rader, Judy Laux

 

John Lord Knight Chair for the Study of Free Enterprise

Professor Christina Rader and Professor Dan Johnson

Past recipients: Kristina Acri, Mark Smith, Pedro de Araujo, Vibha Kapuria-Foreman, Aju Fenn

  

Gerald Schlessman Professorship

Professor Jessica Hoel and Professor Kristina Acri

Past recipients:  Aju Fenn, Guanyi Yang, Vibha Kapuria-Foreman, Jessica Hoel, Dan Johnson, Jim Parco, Judy Laux

  

Department of History

William R. Hochman Endowed Chair

Professor John Williams

Past recipients:  Tip Ragan, Bryan Rommel-Ruiz, Carol Neel, Anne Hyde, Peter Blasenheim

 

Department of Music

Christine S. Johnson Professorship

Professor Liliana Carizzo

Past recipients: Iddo Aharony, Dan Brink, Ofer Ben-Amots, Susan Grace, Victoria Levine, Richard Agee

 

Department of Political Science                      

McHugh Distinguished Chair-American Institutions/Leadership

Professor Doug Edlin

Past recipient: Tom Cronin     

 

Department of Psychology

Winkler-Herman Professorship

Professor Kristi Erdal

Past recipients: Bob Jacobs, Tricia Waters, John Horner, Tomi-Ann Roberts

 

 

Dean of the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award

2025 Awardees

Allison Lawman
Brandon Shimoda
Chantal Figueroa
Christina Rader
Dhanesh Krishnarao
Kristina Acri
Lora Louise Broady
Luis David Garcia Puente
Page Regan
Sanjaya Thakur

2024 Awardees

Amanda Minervini
Ángela Castro
Chelsea Walter
Corinne Scheiner
Danielle Ellsworth
Guanyi Yang
Jessica Kisunzu
Rushaan Kumar
Scott Krzych

2023 Awardees

Dan Miska
Eli Fahrenkrug
Joe Derdzinski
Natalie Gosnell
Nickie Coomer
Richard Fernando Buxton
Sofia Fenner

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