15th Annual Faculty Honors Ceremony
Thu, 24 April, 2025
4:00pm - 5:00pm
2024 Award Recipients and Honorees
Trachtenberg Prizes
Manuel R. Cuellar, Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures, CCAS
Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence
James M. Tielsch, Global Health, GWSPH
Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Service
Christopher L. Cahill, Chemistry and International Affairs, CCAS and ESIA
Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Scholarship (Research)
Morton A. Bender Teaching Awards
Joseph Edmond Bonin, Mathematics, CCAS
Shelley B. Brundage, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, CCAS
Susan Kay Brown Norland, Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures, CCAS
Eric Saidel, Philosophy, CCAS
Philip Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Josh Mannix, Health Policy and Management, GWSPH
Rachel Nelson, Anthropology, CCAS
GJ Sevillano, American Studies, CCAS
Office of the Vice Provost for Research Faculty Awards
Eric H. Cline, Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Anthropology, CCAS
OVPR Distinguished Career Award
Chryssa Kouveliotou, Physics, CCAS
OVPR Distinguished Career Award
Ling Hao, Chemistry, CCAS
OVPR Early Career Award
Harvey Peters, Counseling and Human Development, GSEHD
OVPR Early Career Award
Sylvain Guiriec, Physics, CCAS
OVPR Research Mentorship Award Winner
Nathan Brown, Political Science and International Affairs, CCAS and ESIA
OVPR Research Mentorship Award Finalist
Saniya LeBlanc, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SEAS
OVPR Research Mentorship Award Finalist
Melissa Napolitano, Prevention and Community Health, GWSPH
OVPR Research Mentorship Award Finalist
Inventor of the Year Award
Rong Li, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, SMHS
Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Teaching Awards
Johan A. Ferreira, Marketing, GWSB
Joseph P. Dymond WID Distinguished Teaching Award
Toni Marsh, Paralegal Studies and Political Science, CPS and CCAS
WID Best Assignment Design Award
Mary C. Jobe, Psychological and Brain Sciences, 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
Alison Brooks, Anthropology and International Affairs, CCAS and ESIA
Joseph Lewis Gastwirth, Statistics, CCAS
Hugo D. Junghenn, Mathematics, CCAS
Turker Ozdogan, Fine Arts, CCAS
Paul Poppen, Psychological and Brain Sciences, CCAS
Lilien Robinson, Art History, CCAS
Maida R. Withers, Theatre and Dance, CCAS
Anthony Marvin Yezer, Economics, CCAS
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Roger Henry Lang, Electrical and Computer Engineering, SEAS
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
John M. Lachin, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Statistics, SMHS
Silver Anniversary Faculty Awards
These active-status faculty have completed 25 years of continuous full-time service.
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences
Christopher Britt, Romance, German, and Slavic Languages and Literatures, CCAS
Mary Buckley, Theatre and Dance
Elizabeth Chacko, Geography and International Affairs, CCAS and ESIA
Frank Lee, Physics, CCAS
Philip J. Moore, Psychological and Brain Sciences, CCAS
Patricia Phalen, Media and Public Affairs, CCAS
Phyllis Ryder, University Writing Program, CCAS
Galina Shatalina, Romance, German, and Slavic Languages and Literatures, CCAS
Elliott School of International Affairs
Graciela Kaminsky, Economics and International Affairs, ESIA and CCAS
Walter Reich, International Affairs, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, ESIA and SMHS
Graduate School of Education and Human Development
Colin Green, Curriculum and Pedagogy, GSEHD
Curtis Pyke, Curriculum and Pedagogy, GSEHD
James Williams, International Education, and International Affairs, GSEHD and ESIA
GW Law School
Karen Brown, Law
Sean D. Murphy, Law
Steven Schooner, Law
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 2023 - February 2024. This society was established to maintain close ties between retired faculty members and the university.
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences
Dana Burgess, Theatre and Dance
Diane Cline, Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and History (Posthumous)
Chris Deering, Political Science
Cynthia Deitch, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Paul Duff, Religion
Catherine Forster, Biological Sciences
Shoko Hamano, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Stuart Licht, Chemistry
Daniel Moshenberg, English
Richard Robin, Romance, German, Slavic Languages and Literature
Courtney Smith, Biological Sciences
Richard Tollo, Biological Sciences
Susan Wiley, Political Science and Legislative Affairs
Elliott School of International Affairs
Charles Glaser, Political Science and International Affairs
Graduate School of Education and Human Development
Andrea Casey, Human and Organizational Learning
Rebecca Dedmond, Counseling and Human Development
Patricia Tate, Curriculum and Pedagogy
GW Law School
Suzanne Jackson, Law
Laird Kirkpatrick, Law
Catherine Ross, Law
Ralph Steinhardt, Law
Milken Institute School of Public Health
Jeffrey Levi, Health Policy and Management
GW School of Business
Mark Klock, Finance
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Stephen Hsu, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Kim Roddis, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Murray Snyder, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Ellen Hamburger, Pediatrics
Eugenie Heitmiller, Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics
Stanley Knoll, Surgery
Burt Littman, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Charles Macri, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Lisa Martin, Medicine
Sally Moody, Anatomy and Cell Biology
Michael Phillips, Urology
David Powers, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sylvia Silver, Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, Pathology, Preventive, and Community Health, and Medicine
Gary Simon, Medicine
Anthony Venbrux, Radiology and Surgery
Linda Werling, Pharmacology and Physiology and Neurological Surgery
Bernhard Wiedermann, Pediatrics