This award recognizes an experienced tenured or tenure track faculty member, distinguished as a teacher in the broadest sense of the word, and recognized not only for performance in the classroom but also for exemplifying the ideals of a liberal arts education.

To be considered for the award, faculty members must have held the rank of associate or full professor for at least a year. Recipients are announced at the Faculty Meeting in May.

The 2024 winner of the Jon Reinhardt Award for Distinguished Teaching

Dr. Deborah Best
William L. Poteat Professor and Emerita Research Professor of Psychology


The Jon Reinhardt Award for Distinguished Teaching Winners

Academic YearWinnerDepartment
2023-2024Deborah BestPsychology
2022-2023Mary FoskettStudy of Religions
2021-2022David HagyMusic
2020-2021Billy HamiltonGerman and Russian
2019-2020Terry BlumenthalPsychology
2018-2019Peter Siavelis Politics and International Affairs
2017-2018Mary DeShazer Professor Emeritus of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English
2016-2017Gloria Muday Biology
2015-2016Linda Howe Romance Languages
2014-2015Anne Boyle English
2013-2014Simone Caron History
2012-2013Louis Goldstein Music
2011-2012Robert UleryRetired, Classics
2010-2011Helga Welsh Political Science
2009-2010Barry MaineEnglish
2008-2009James T. Powell Classical Languages
2007-2008Stewart A. Carter Music
2006-2007Page H. Laughlin Art
2005-2006Edwin G. Wilson English
2004-2005Sarah Watts History
2003-2004Peter D. Weigl Biology
2002-2003Katy J. Harriger Political Science
2001-2002Herman E. Eure Biology
2000-2001Doyle R. Fosso English
1999-2000Kathleen M. Glenn Romance Languages
1998-1999Charles M. Allen Biology
1997-1998Marcellus Waddill Mathematics
1996-1997James P. Barefield History
1995-1996Ralph S. Fraser German
1994-1995Robert W. Brehme Physics
1993-1994Elmer K. Hayashi Mathematics
1992-1993Fred L. Horton Jr.Religion
1991-1992Ralph C. Wood Jr. Religion
1990-1991Carl V. Harris Classical Languages
1989-1990Anne Tillett Romance Languages
1988-1989David L. Smiley History
1987-1988Jeanne Owen Calloway School
1986-1987Bynum G. Shaw English