# Teaching Prize ## expand\_more ## Alpha-Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching Each year, the undergraduate members of Alpha Iota, led by four Phi Beta Kappa Marshals, decide on the Phi Beta Kappa awards for teaching excellence given to three members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Literary Exercises. Only the undergraduate members of the Chapter can nominate teachers for this prize. Nomination information will be sent to chapter members in the Spring Term. ## Winners of the Alpha Iota Prize For Excellence in Teaching ### 2026 Zoë Johnson King, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of Philosophy Ross Martin, Head Preceptor in Expository Writing Andrei Shleifer, John L. Loeb Professor of Economics ### 2025 Remo Airaldi, Lecturer on Theater, Dance & Media Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government Samantha Matherne, Professor of Philosophy ### 2024 Andrew Davies, Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Gage Hills, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies ### 2023 Kelly McConville, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies in Statistics Curtis McMullen, Maria Moors Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Justin Weir, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature ### 2022 Adam C. Hesterberg, Lecturer/Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies for Computer Science Peter John Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and of Environmental Science and Engineering Andrea Wright, Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Allston Burr Resident Dean of Harvard College, Eliot House ### 2021 Ali Asani, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures Manja Klemenčič, Lecturer in Sociology Logan McCarty, Director of Science Education ### 2020 Rachelle Gaudet, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Edward J. Hall, Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy Leah Jane Whittington, Professor of English ### 2019 Kathleen Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics Elizabeth Hinton, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department History and the Department of African and African American Studies Abigail Modaff,Teaching Fellow in History ### 2018 Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Noam Elkies, Professor of Mathematics Nicholas Harkness, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Katherine Merseth, Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education ### 2017 Andrew Berry, Lecturer in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Alison Frank Johnson, Professor of History Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy ### 2016 Kiran Gajwani, Lecturer in Economics Charles Hallisey, Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Literatures Brigitte Libby, Lecturer in the Classics ### 2015 Selim Berker, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Eddie Kohler, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Microsoft Professor of Computer Science Jane Unrue, Preceptor in the Expository Writing Program ### 2014 Philip Fisher, Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English Alison Simmons, Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy Thomas Torello, Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology ### 2013 Jacob Barandes, Associate Director of Graduate Studies; Lecturer on Physics Stephen Blyth, Professor of the Practice of Statistics Amanda Claybaugh, Professor of English ### 2012 David Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering David Morin, Lecturer on Physics and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in Physics Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History ### 2011 David L. Ager, Lecturer on Sociology, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology William C. Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the Kennedy School of Government and a member of the FAS Committee on Degrees in Environmental Science and Public Policy Dudley R. Herschbach, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Emeritus ### 2010 Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Benjamin Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy Richard Tarrant, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature ### 2009 Joseph Blitzstein, Assistant Professor of Statistics Daniel Donoghue, John P. Marquand Professor of English Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture ### 2008 Sean Gallagher, Associate Professor of Music Carlos Diaz Rosillo, Teaching Fellow in Government ### 2007 David A. Evans, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Anne Harrington, Professor of the History of Science Helen Vendler, A Kingsley Porter University Professor ### 2006 Joseph D. Harris, Higgins Professor of Mathematics Caroline Hoxby, Freed Professor of Economics Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies ### 2005 Samuel P. Huntington, Albert J. Weatherhead University Professor Peter E. Gordon, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences ### 2004 Bertrand I. Halperin, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Carl Pearson, Lecturer on the History of Science Salil Vadhan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science ### 2003 Eric N. Jacobsen, Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, Harvard College Professor Stephen P. Rosen, Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs, Harvard College Professor James Wilkinson, Lecturer on History and Literature, Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning ### 2002 James Engell, Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Howard Georgi, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Peter Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard College Professor ### 2001 Mary Gaylord, Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Nancy Mitchnick, Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Studio Arts ### 2000 Melissa Barry, Assistant Professor in Philosophy Anya Bernstein, Lecturer on Social Studies Guido Guidotti, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry ### 1999 Daniel Gilbert, Professor in Psychology David Laibson, Associate Professor in Economics Michael Smith, Associate Professor in Engineering Sciences ### 1998 Glenn Adelson, Lecturer in ESPP & Preceptor in Expository Writing Nataliya Chirkov, Teaching Assistant in Slavic Kamal Khuri-Makdisi, Assistant Professor in Mathematics Rebecca Krug, Assistant Professor in English ### 1997 Colleen Cavanaugh, Professor in Biological Sciences Brian Hall, Assistant Professor in Economics Graham Huggan, Associate Professor in English Daniel Schacter, Professor in Psychology ### 1996 David Lewin, Professor in Music Everett Mendelsohn, Professor in the History of Science Daniel Perlman, Lecturer in ESPP Margo Seltzer, Assistant Professor in Computer Science ### 1995 Graeme Boone, Associate Professor in Music John Stewart, Senior Preceptor in Music Edward O. Wilson, Professor in Biological Sciences ### 1994 Mara Prentiss, Associate Professor in Physics Howard Stone, Associate Professor in Applied Math Emily Vermeule, Professor in Classics and Fine Arts ### 1993 Connie Holm, Associate Professsor in Biological Sciences David Mitten, Professor in Classics and History of Art & Architecture H.W. Perry, Associate Professor in Government ### 1992 Roger Brown, Professor in Psychology Barbara Johnson, Professor in English and Literature Cynthia Moss, Assistant Professor in Psychology ### 1991 Lucie Brock-Broido, Assistant Professor in English David Layzer, Professor in Astronomy Ruben Puentedur, Chemistry Cecilia Rouse, Economics ### 1990 Christopher Braider, Associate Professor in Literature Meichun Hsu, Assistant Professor in Computer Science Lenore Weitzman, Associate Professor in Sociology ### 1989 Richard Freemantle, Economics Jean Haley, Biology Janice Thaddeus, Lecturer on History and Literature ### 1988 Daniel Goroff, Assistant Professor in Mathematics Drew McCoy, Associate Professor in History Tazuko Monane, Professor in East Asian Lang. & Literatures ### 1987 Karel Liem, Professor in Biological Sciences Simon Schama, Professor in History ### 1986 Diana Eck, Professor in Religion and Indian Studies Jan Ziolkowski, Professor in Classics Sonia Michel, Lecturer on History and Literature ### 1985 Michael Sandel, Associate Professor of Government James Stellar, Associate Professor in Psychology ### 1984 Dorrit Cohn, Professor in Germanic Lang. & Literatures Owen Gingerich, Professor in Astronomy Stephen Kett, Music ### 1983 Lisa Anderson, Assistant Professor in Government Thomas Parker, Assistant Professor in Mathematics ### 1982 David Pickard, Associate Professor in Statistics Judith Shklar, Professor in Government Peter Stevens, Associate Professor in Biological Sciences ### 1981 Deborah Hughes Hallett, Senior Preceptor in Mathematics Leonard Nash, Professor in Chemistry --- ## Award Ceremony ![Prof. of English James Engell](/sites/g/files/omnuum4576/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/phi-beta-kappa/files/gomesengel.jpg?itok=TTHG9-01) *Prof. of English James Engell receives the PBK Teaching Prize from the Rev. Prof. Peter Gomes at Literary Exercises, June 4, 2002.*