Each spring, the College presents selected faculty with awards to honor their commitment to exceptional teaching and research. Here are 2025’s honorees.
The Adjunct Faculty Research Award assists adjunct faculty members, whose work is critical to the College and its students, in reaching their full creative potential by subsidizing scholarly work in their individual fields.
- Kyle deCamp, Adjunct Lecturer, Theatre, here where the bridge floats
Ann Whitney Olin Professorships recognize tenured faculty whose teaching and professional development place them at the center of the life of the College. The professorships are awarded on the basis of scholarship, teaching, and other contributions to the academic community and rotate among the faculty and throughout the various disciplines.
- Severin Fowles, Professor, Anthropology
- Jennifer Mansfield, Professor, Biological Sciences
The Emily Gregory Award honors an outstanding faculty member for excellence in teaching and for their devotion and service to the students. Faculty are nominated by students and selected by the Student/Faculty Committee of the Activities Council, in conjunction with the Alumnae Association and the Office of College Activities.
- Thea Abu El-Haj, Professor, Education
The Fund for Innovation in Teaching Award supports academic activities that sponsor innovation in pedagogy. The goal of the award is to enhance student learning by extending existing field-based boundaries and challenging standard pedagogical methods.
- Almudena Marín Cobos, Lecturer, Spanish & Latin American Cultures, “Climate Humanities in the Spanish Language Classroom”
- Jozefina Chetko, Term Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Art History, “Wording Otherwise: Speculative Fictions and Game Engine Ecologies”
The Fund for Innovation in Teaching: DEI Award enables and assists in the design of courses and projects that address how differences in power and possibilities align with social categories and identities, and how these differences distinguish individuals and groups in ways that privilege some and constrain others.
- Monica L. Miller, Professor, Africana Studies, “Black Fashion and Dress Cultures”
The Gildersleeve Award contributes to the intellectual life of the College by bringing distinguished visiting scholars, preferably women from abroad, to the Barnard campus.
- Joan Snitzer, Senior Lecturer, Art History, to invite Julie Mehretu beginning in the fall
The Gladys Brooks Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award was established in 1989 by the Gladys Brooks Foundation and is bestowed annually to recognize considerable individual achievements of tenure-track/tenure-eligible assistant professors.
- Ralph Ghoche, Assistant Professor, Architecture
- Francey Russell, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Established in 2021, the Linda A. Bell Award for Collaborative Creativity and Excellence in Teaching recognizes the special contributions of collective projects to the intellectual life and pedagogical culture of the College. Unlike other awards, which distinguish individuals, the Linda A. Bell Award recognizes teams of between two and five colleagues whose impact on teaching and learning at the College has been exemplary and whose efforts have been guided by a strongly collaborative spirit. Teams may include both faculty and staff, though all team members should be directly involved in teaching at the time of the award. Interdisciplinary collaborations across departments, programs, and centers are particularly valued.
- The Writing Program Team:
- Pamela Cobrin, Senior Lecturer, English
- Alexandra Watson, Senior Lecturer, First-Year Writing
- Isabelle Eshraghi, Senior Program Coordinator, English
- Maisha Alam, Science Fellow Coordinator, English
The Presidential Research Awards support scholarship that expands knowledge, probes new ground, and has the potential for major impact; builds upon a faculty member's record of productivity and creativity; and culminates in scholarly publication with the potential for broader dissemination that promotes the College’s connection to New York City, the nation, and the world.
- Timothy B. Vasko, Assistant Professor, Human Rights and Religion
- Paige West, Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology
The Teaching Excellence Awards recognize a full-time faculty member who has made a difference in the teaching climate of the College.
- Camilla M. Sturm, Term Assistant Professor, Anthropology
- Penelope Meyers Usher, Lecturer, First-Year Writing