Named Professorships and Faculty Teaching Awards
College-wide Professorships
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