This award recognizes an experienced 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, or its equivalent, for at least a year. Recipients are announced at the Faculty Meeting in May.
The 2023 winner of the Jon Reinhardt Award for Distinguished Teaching

Dr. Mary Foskett
Wake Forest Kahle Professor, John Thomas Albritton Fellow, and Chair of the Department for the Study of Religions
The Jon Reinhardt Award for Distinguished Teaching Winners
Academic Year | Winner | Department |
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2022-2023 | Mary Foskett | Study of Religions |
2021-2022 | David Hagy | Music |
2020-2021 | Billy Hamilton | German and Russian |
2019-2020 | Terry Blumenthal | Psychology |
2018-2019 | Peter Siavelis | Politics and International Affairs |
2017-2018 | Mary DeShazer | Professor Emeritus of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English |
2016-2017 | Gloria Muday | Biology |
2015-2016 | Linda Howe | Romance Languages |
2014-2015 | Anne Boyle | English |
2013-2014 | Simone Caron | History |
2012-2013 | Louis Goldstein | Music |
2011-2012 | Robert Ulery | Retired, Classics |
2010-2011 | Helga Welsh | Political Science |
2009-2010 | Barry Maine | English |
2008-2009 | James T. Powell | Classical Languages |
2007-2008 | Stewart A. Carter | Music |
2006-2007 | Page H. Laughlin | Art |
2005-2006 | Edwin G. Wilson | English |
2004-2005 | Sarah Watts | History |
2003-2004 | Peter D. Weigl | Biology |
2002-2003 | Katy J. Harriger | Political Science |
2001-2002 | Herman E. Eure | Biology |
2000-2001 | Doyle R. Fosso | English |
1999-2000 | Kathleen M. Glenn | Romance Languages |
1998-1999 | Charles M. Allen | Biology |
1997-1998 | Marcellus Waddill | Mathematics |
1996-1997 | James P. Barefield | History |
1995-1996 | Ralph S. Fraser | German |
1994-1995 | Robert W. Brehme | Physics |
1993-1994 | Elmer K. Hayashi | Mathematics |
1992-1993 | Fred L. Horton Jr. | Religion |
1991-1992 | Ralph C. Wood Jr. | Religion |
1990-1991 | Carl V. Harris | Classical Languages |
1989-1990 | Anne Tillett | Romance Languages |
1988-1989 | David L. Smiley | History |
1987-1988 | Jeanne Owen | Calloway School |
1986-1987 | Bynum G. Shaw | English |