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Eisenhart Award for Excellence of Teaching

Gallery of Honorees

This award is made solely on the criteria of effective teaching and recognizes a full-time faculty member who, by means of unusually effective teaching, has contributed significantly as a performer, composer, or teacher to the education of students.


2022-2023 Matthew Curlee and Christel Thielmann


2021-2022 Paul O’Dette


2020-2021 James VanDemark


2019-2020 Mark Scatterday


2018-2019 Renée Jolles


2017-2018 Anne Lindblom Harrow


2016-2017 Barry Snyder


2015-2016 Douglas Humpherys


2014-2015 Steven Daigle


2013-2014 Jonathan Baldo


2012-2013 Chien-Kwan Lin


2011-2012 Carol Webber


2010-2011 Natalya Antonova


2009-2010 Kenneth Grant


2008-2009 Reinhild Steingröver


2007-2008 Nicholas Goluses


2006-2007 Alan Harris


2005-2006 Roger Freitas


2004-2005 David Higgs


2003-2004 John Graham


2002-2003 John Maloy


2001-2002 Vincent Lenti


2000-2001 Bonita Boyd


1999-2000 Nelita True


1998-1999 Masako Toribara


1997-1998 Sydney Hodkinson


1996-1997 John Beck


1995-1996 Donna Brink Fox


1994-1995 Catherine Tait


1993-1994 Jean Barr


1992-1993 Steven Doane


1991-1992 Steven Laitz


1990-1991 Gretchen Wheelock


1989-1990 Patrick Macey


1988-1989 Samuel Adler


1987-1988 Ruth Gross


1986-1987 Donald Hunsberger


1985-1986 Russell Saunders


1984-1985 Richard Killmer


1983-1984 Rayburn Wright


1982-1983 K. David Van Hoesen


1981-1982 Jerald Graue


1980-1981 Jan DeGaetani


1979-1980 Robert Spillman


1978-1979 Maria Luisa Faini


1977-1978 D. Stanley Hasty


1976-1977 Gilbert Kilpack


1975-1976 Francis Tursi


1974-1975 David Craighead


1974-1975 Dorothy Payne