AATSEEL Awards for Teaching, Service, and Scholarship

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AATSEEL Awards for Teaching, Service, and Scholarship (Deadline November 30, 2023) or AATSEEL Book Award



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Award Recipients 1991 - Present

Year Excellence in Teaching (Secondary) Excellence in Teaching (Post-Secondary) Distinguished Service to AATSEEL Outstanding Contribution to the Profession Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship
1991 John Sheehan Barbara Monahan Zita Dabars J. Thomas Shaw Victor Terras & Catherine Chvany
1992 Henry Ziegler Robert Baker Leon Twarog Charles Gribble Dean Worth
1993 George Morris Irwin Weil Lauren Leighton Irene Thompson Robert Jackson
1994 Will Poole Leonard Polakiewicz Christine Tomei Charles Townsend Rado Lencek
1995 Peter Merrill Christopher Wertz George Gutsche Dan Davidson Marina Ledkovsky
1996 Jane Shuffelton Frank Miller Ray Parrott George Fowler Felix Oinas
1997 Guenther Teschauer Robert Beard John Schillinger Catherine Chvany Vladimir Markov
1998 Marian Walters Alexandra Baker Barry Scherr Richard Brecht Hugh McLean
1999 Joyce Morgan Arlene Forman Don Jarvis Ray Parrott Simon Karlinsky
2000 Kathleen Dillon Anna Lisa Crone Steve Baehr (posthumous) David Birnbaum Robert Belknap
2001 Judith Wobst Thomas Garza None Alex Rudd Caryl Emerson
2002 Arthur Lisciandro Emilia P. Hramova None Munir Sendich Robert Maguire
2003 Martin Doyle Olga Kagan Jerry Ervin Irwin Weil David Bethea
2004 Elizabeth Sandstrom Masako Ueda Fidler George Fowler Irene Masing-Delic Alexander Schenker
2005 Ruth Edelman Maria Carlson Karen Evans-Romaine Maria Lekic William Mills Todd III
2006 James Sweigert Richard Robin Kathleen Dillon Kenneth Lantz Victor Erlich
2007 Paavo Husen Irina Reyfman Gerald Janecek Beth Holmgren Katerina Clark
2008 Natasha Ushakova Jane Adelman Taubman Marta Deyrup Benjamin Rifkin Gary Saul Morson
2009 Elena Farkas George Pahomov William Comer Helena Goscilo Victor Friedman
2010 Valentin Cukierman Gary R. Jahn John Bartle Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy Irina Paperno
2011 Elizabeth Lee Roby Martin Votruba Robert Channon Gerald Janecek Michael Heim
2012 Elena Lokounia & Elaine Kukin David Birnbaum Sibelan Forrester Wayles Browne Stephanie Sandler
2013 Valerie Ekberg-Brown Monika Greenleaf Susan Janecek Irina Prokhorova Mikhail Iampolski [Yampolsky]
2014 Julie Draskoczy-Zigoris Bojan Belić and Priscilla Meyer Patricia Zody William Todd Mills III Mark Lipovetsky
2015 Paul Rischard Alla Kourova Nancy Condee Caryl Emerson Michael Katz
2016 Shannon Johnson Ona Renner-Fahey Dianna Murphy Nyusya Milman-Miller Michał Paweł Markowski
2017 Michele Whaley Susanne Fusso and Mara Sukholutskaya Susan Kresin Jane Hacking Yuri Leving
2018 Kateryna Ratushnyuk Judy Kalb and Annalisa Czeczulin Lynne DeBenedette Serguei Oushakine Alexander Zholkovsky
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2019 Oksana Cox Alla Nedashkivska and Bella Ginzbursky-Blum Irene Masing-Delic and Helen Halva Eric Naiman Evgeny Dobrenko
2020 The team at Pritzker College Prep, Chicago -- Phil Stosberg, Lauren Nelson, and Rebecca Kaegi Brunilda Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz and Julia Vaingurt Kevin Platt and Jon Stone Karen Evans-Romaine Irina Reyfman
2021 Michael White Anna Voskresensky Diana Dukhanova and Yuliya Volkhonovych Anne Lounsbery Helena Goscilo
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2022 Devin Browne Olga Klimova Lee Roby Irina Dubinina Marcus Levitt
2022 Willis Harte Galya Diment Elizabeth Durst and Rachel Stauffer Michael Naydan Lenore Grenoble