The Bok Center congratulates the winners of the teaching awards given annually by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Teaching Awards
Derek C. Bok Award
The Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates is given each year by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to five teaching fellows who have been nominated by their departments. The award includes a $1,000 prize from a gift given by David G. Nathan '51, M.D. '55 (Robert A. Stranahan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School) and his wife Jean Louise Friedman Nathan.
For more information or to nominate a teaching fellow, contact your department chair.
Click to view names of recent awardees
2022
Chelsea Boccagno (Psychology)
Alexandra Dennet (History of Art and Architecture)
Joshua Linkous (History)
Sarah Mohamed (Government)
Udodiri Okwandu (History of Science)
Josh Wang (Mathematics)
2021
Kirsten Burke (History of Art and Architecture)
Hardeep Dhillon (History)
Abigail Mariam (Social Policy)
Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez (Government)
Jacob Suissa (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)
2020
Alyssa Botelho (History of Science)
Eliza Holmes (English)
Patrick Lopatto (Mathematics)
Mariela Petkova (Biophysics)
Cresa Pugh (Social Policy)
2019
Angie Bautista-Chavez (Government)
Garth Coombs (Psychology)
Miguel Quintana Navarrete (Sociology)
David Thorstad (Philosophy)
Mariel Young (Human Evolutionary Biology)
2018
Aaron Benavidez (Sociology)
Chi-Yun Hsu (Mathematics)
Christopher Spaide (English)
Shanna Weitz (Government)
Andrew Yegian (Human Evolutionary Biology)
2017
Amymarie Bartholomew (Chemistry & Chemical Biology)
Michela Kerrissey (Health Policy)
Patricia Marechal (Philosophy)
Jamie McSpadden (History)
Thomas Plumb-Reyes (Applied Physics)
2016
Andrew Baker (History)
Hyungsuk Tak (Statistics)
Katie Kohn (Film and Visual Studies)
Theodore Leenman (Sociology)
Kaitlyn Vrendenburgh (Philosophy)
2015
Taylor Cowdery (English)
Ion Mihailescu (History of Science)
Ananth Shankar (Mathematics)
Alicia Darnell (Molecular & Cellular Biology)
Ronni Sadovsky (Philosophy)
2014
Shane Bobrycki (History)
Peter McMurray (Music)
Emily Jacobs-Palmer (Organismic & Evolutionary Biology)
Christine Zgrabik (Engineering & Applied Sciences)
Trevor Stark (History of Art & Architecture)
2013
Trevor Baca (Music)
Erika Loic (History of Art and Architecture)
Ainsley Morse (Slavic)
Kevin Rader (Biostatistics)
Jacob Sanders (Chemistry and Chemical Biology)
2012
Cosette Creamer (Government)
Valeria Espinosa (Statistics)
Joseph McMullen (Celtic)
Anand Patel (Mathematics)
Elizabeth Sefton (OEB)
2011
Katherine Baldiga (Economics)
Rowan Dorin (History)
Jennifer Hou (Physics)
Jack Huizenga (Mathematics)
Viktoriia Liublinska (Statistics)
2010
Christine Barrett (English)
Bhart-Anjan Bhullar (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)
Christopher Lewis (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Kari Lock (Statistics)
Meg Rithmire (Government)
2009
David Camden (Classics)
Yves Chretien (Statistics)
Irene Janis (Psychology)
Andras Tilcsik (Organizational Behavior)
Haoqi Zhang (SEAS)
2008
Coren Apicella (Anthropology)
Paul Baines (Statistics)
Joel Hartman (Astronomy)
Carla Martin (African and African American Studies)
Tamara Pavasovic (Sociology)
2007
Rachel Eaton (Psychology)
Paul Edlefsen (Statistics)
Jennifer Ferriss (Classics)
Kelly Heffner (SEAS)
Brandon Tilley (English)