14th Annual Faculty Honors Ceremony

2024 Award Recipients and Honorees

Trachtenberg Prizes

Manuel Cuellar, Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures, CCAS
Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence

James 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 Bonin, Mathematics, CCAS

Shelley Brundage, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, CCAS

Susan 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 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 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 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 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 Withers, Theatre and Dance, CCAS

Anthony Yezer, Economics, CCAS
 

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Roger Lang, Electrical and Computer Engineering, SEAS

 

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

Elizabeth Chacko, Geography and International Affairs, CCAS and ESIA

Frank Lee, Physics, CCAS

Philip 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

Sean 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