The CLAS Teaching Awards Committee works with the associate deans and departmental executive officers to broaden the pool of candidates and the quality of nominations for various teaching awards. For information on faculty members who have recently won teaching awards, please visit our Faculty Honors website.

2025-2026 members

NameRank/titleDepartmentTerm end date
Munachim AmahGraduate StudentJournalism and Mass CommunicationSpring 2026
Fred BoehmkeProfessorPolitical ScienceSpring 2026
Mallory KjeldgaardUndergraduate Student

Public Health

Spanish

Spring 2026
Cornelia Lang

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

Professor

Physics and Astronomyex officio
Irene LottiniAssociate Professor of InstructionLanguages, Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures Spring 2026
Christopher-Rasheem McMillanAssociate Professor

Dance

Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies

Spring 2026
Colleen MitchellAssociate ProfessorMathematicsSpring 2026
Kate TierneyAssociate Professor of InstructionEarth, Environment, and Sustainability Spring 2027
Corinne WattsGraduate StudentAnthropologySpring 2026

Staff

Jennifer Bertrand (jennifer-bertrand@uiowa.edu) staffs the CLAS Teaching Awards Committee.