16th Annual Faculty Honors Ceremony

 Trachtenberg Prizes 

Jin Hyung Kim, International Business, GWSB
Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence

Shaista Ehsan Khilji, Human and Organizational Learning, and International Affairs, GSEHD and ESIA
Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Service

Amanda Castel, Epidemiology and Pediatrics, GWSPH and SMHS
Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Scholarship (Research)

Morton A. Bender Teaching Awards  

Nils Olsen, Organizational Sciences and Communication, CCAS

Scott Quinlan, Epidemiology, GWSPH

Andrew Wiss, Health Policy and Management, GWSPH

​​​Kathryne Young, Law, LAW

Philip Amsterdam Graduate Student Teaching Awards  

Kai Blevins, Anthropology, CCAS

Kathryn Nicholson, Economics, CCAS

Pedro Rodriguez-Martinez, Economics, CCAS

Taylor-Jo Russo, Psychological and Brain Sciences, CCAS

Office of the Vice Provost for Research Faculty Awards  

Elias Balaras, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SEAS
OVPR Distinguished Career Award

Michael Barnett, International Affairs & Political Science, ESIA & CCAS
OVPR Distinguished Career Award

Daisy Le, Nursing, SON
OVPR Early Career Award

Alicia Solow-Niederman, Law
OVPR Early Career Award

Cynthia Dowd, Chemistry, CCAS
OVPR Research Mentorship Award

GW Inventor of the Year Award  

Timothy McCaffrey, Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine and Medicine, SMHS

Early Career GW Inventor of the Year Award 

Xitong Liu, Civil and Environmental Engineering, SEAS

Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Teaching Awards  

Alexa Alice Joubin, English, East Asian Languages & Literature, and Theater & Dance, CCAS 
Joseph P. Dymond WID Distinguished Teaching Award  

Shirley Ann Graham, International Affairs, ESIA 
WID Best Assignment Design Award

Azia Richardson-Williams, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, CCAS 
WID Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award 
 

​​​Gold Anniversary Faculty Awards 

These active-status faculty have completed 50 years of continuous, full-time service.

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Joseph Cordes, Economics, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration, and International Affairs, CCAS and ESIA

Cynthia McClintock, Political Science and International Affairs, CCAS and ESIA

School of Medicine and Health Sciences  

Glenn Geelhoed, International Medicine

Silver Anniversary Faculty Awards 

These active-status faculty have completed 25 years of continuous, full-time service. 
 

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences 
 

Sean Aday, Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs, CCAS and ESIA

Christopher Cahill, Chemistry and International Affairs, CCAS and ESIA

Eric Cline, Classical & Near East Languages & Civilizations and Anthropology

Kimberly Gross, Media and Public Affairs and Political Science

Chad Heap, American Studies

Chen Zeng, Physics

Angela Zimmerman, History and International Affairs, CCAS and ESIA

Martin Zysmilich, Chemistry

Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Michael Corry, Educational Leadership

Elisabeth Rice, Special Education and Disability Studies

School of Business

Sok-Hyon Kang, Accountancy

Shivraj Kanungo, Decision Sciences and Information Systems & Tech Management

Christopher Kayes, Management

Robert Savickas, Finance

Jennifer Spencer, International Business and International Affairs, GWSB and ESIA

Robin Tarpley, Accountancy

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Joseph Barbera, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and International Affairs, SEAS and ESIA

Rahul Simha, Computer Science and Education Leadership, SEAS and GSHED

School of Medicine and Health Sciences  

John Hawdon, Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine

Timothy McCaffrey, Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine, and Medicine

School of Public Health

Sean Cleary, Epidemiology

New Emeriti Faculty 
 

These members of the faculty were approved by the Board of Trustees and inducted into the Society of the Emeriti from May 2025 - March 2026. This society was established to maintain close ties between retired faculty members and the university. 

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

William Adams, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration

Peg Barratt, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Lisa Benton-Short, Geography

Janis Goodman, Studio Arts

George Howe, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Hugo Junghenn, Mathematics

Paul Poppen, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Evelyn Schreiber, English

Ormond Seavey, English

Daniel Ullman, Mathematics

Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Sharon Dannels, Educational Leadership

Ellen Goldman, Human and Organizational Learning

Monica Megivern, Counseling and Human Development

Iris Rotberg, Educational Leadership

James Williams, Educational Leadership

GW Law 

Joshua Schwartz, Law

School of Business

Ernest Forman, Decision Sciences

Donna Hoffman, Marketing

Thomas Novak, Marketing

Pradeep Rau, Marketing

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Joseph Barbera, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Murray Loew, Biomedical Engineering

Mona Zaghloul, Electrical & Computer Engineering

School of Medicine and Health Sciences  

David Belyea, Ophthalmology

Leo Chalupa, Pharmacology and Physiology

Jay Greenberg, Pediatrics

Pamela Hinds, Pediatrics

Mohamad Jaafer, Ophthalmology and Pediatrics

Susan LeLacheur, Physician Assistant Studies

Joyce Maring, Health, Human Function, and Rehabilitation Sciences

Bruce Markle, Radiology and Pediatrics

Jeffrey Moak, Pediatrics

Kurt Newman, Surgery and Pediatrics

Eglal Shalaby-Rana, Radiology and Pediatrics

Eric Wargotz, Pathology

William Weglicki, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

Gil Wernovsky, Pediatrics

John Zinner, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health