To: The Wellesley College Campus Community
From: Office of the President
Re: The 2024 Pinanski Prize
Date: April 1, 2024
The Anna and Samuel Pinanski Teaching Prize is awarded annually to members of the Wellesley College faculty to honor excellent teaching across the curriculum. Faculty, staff, and students may submit nominations that offer specific, illustrative examples of excellent teaching. An individual may make multiple nominations for different faculty, and previous nominations may be resubmitted.
The faculty members who are awarded the Pinanski Prize will be announced at commencement. Citations describing each recipient’s strengths will be shared with the community and will serve as public symbols of the College’s regard for their high-quality teaching. Citations draw on, in part, language from the nominations.
In the past, the prizes were awarded with reference to the three academic areas of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Recognizing that a number of faculty now have interdisciplinary appointments, reference to these three areas no longer strictly guide committee recommendations.
The Pinanski Prize Committee, composed of the prior year’s prize winners and three seniors appointed by the College Government appointed representatives process, works with Dawn Montagna, associate dean of students and chair of the committee, to prepare prize recommendations for President Paula Johnson. This year, faculty members on the committee are Dan Zitnick, lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies; Adam Matthews, senior lecturer in Biological Sciences; and Ama Baafra Abeberese, associate professor of economics. Student members are Zhamilya Bilyalova, Leyla Kutluca, and Lianne Quaynor.
Nominations may be submitted electronically through MyWellesley. After logging in to MyWellesley, select the Administrivia tab. The Pinanski Teaching Prize Nomination link is accessible under the “For Everyone” section.
The nomination process closes at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 19.
Former Pinanski Prize recipients are ineligible for a subsequent award. The list of current ineligible faculty includes:
Rachid Aadnani
Ama Baafra Abeberese
Robin Akert
Mary Allen (E)
Christopher Arumainayagam
Angela Bahns
Amy Banzaert
Connie Bauman (E)
Rebecca Bedell
Rebecca Belisle
Barb Beltz (E)
Patricia Berman
Frank Bidart (E)
Dan Brabander
Martin Brody (E)
Kathleen Brogan
Emily Buchholtz (E)
William Cain
John Cameron (E)
Kimberly Cassibry
Stanley Chang
William Coleman (E)
Ann Congleton (E)
Mary Coyne (E)
Elena Creef
Lee Cuba (E)
Selwyn Cudjoe
Beth DeSombre
Alex Diesl
Nicholas Doe
Don Elmore
Paul Fisher
Charles Fisk (E)
Nolan Flynn
Richard French (E)
Alice Friedman (E)
Charlene Galarneau (E)
Corinne Gartner
Nancy Genero (E)
Tracy Gleason
Stacie Goddard
Brenna Greer
Koichi Hagimoto
David Haines (E)
Bunny Harvey (E)
Michael Hearn (E)
Thomas Hodge
Soo Hong
Nora Hussey (E)
Joseph Joyce
Lidwien Kapteijns
Margaret Keane
Phil Kohl (E)
Nancy Kolodny (E)
Andrea Levitt (E)
David Lindauer (E)
Kathryn Lynch
Paul MacDonald
Stephen Marini
Irene Mata
Adam Matthews
Tracy McAskill
Phyllis McGibbon
Julia Miwa
Marianne Moore (E)
Robert Paarlberg (E)
Marta Rainer
Carlos Ramos
Michele Respaut (E)
Daniela Rivera
Lisa Rodensky
Larry Rosenwald (E)
Casey Rothschild
Margery Sabin (E)
Andrew Schultz
Orit Shaer
Andrew Shennan
Alan Shuchat (E)
Randy Shull (E)
Frederic Shultz (E)
Marilyn Sides
Susan Skeath
Glenn Stark
Raymond Starr
Yui Suzuki
Margaret Thompson (E)
Ann Trenk
Franklyn Turbak
Ann Velenchik
Carla Verschoor
Maurizio Viano (E)
Wesley Watters
Akila Weerapana
Wini Wood (E)
Daniel Zitnick
