The Distinguished Teaching Award is a prestigious award bestowed upon up to five members of the Academic Senate, three non-Senate faculty members, and three graduate students at UC San Diego each year. The Distinguished Teaching Award was created because UC San Diego faculty recognize the important role excellent teaching plays at the University. This Award is a tangible expression of UC San Diego's commitment to excellence in teaching and to ensuring that this commitment is maintained. The Committee on Distinguished Teaching seeks to select those who exhibit creativity, innovative teaching methods, the ability to motivate students to actively seek out knowledge, and an extraordinary level of teaching commitment.

 

2023-2024 

Jennifer Gaudette

2022-2023

Leo Falabella

2019-2020 

Isabel Gotti
Zoe Nemerever

2018-2019 

Lauren Ferry

This award recognizes outstanding graduate students who have recently completed their dissertation. The dissertation is evaluated on its impact, originality, presentation, and quality of methodology and data.

DG Kim's dissertation, "Race in International Politics: China's Rise and the Weaponization of Identity in the Asia-Pacific" examines the relationship between anti-Asian resentment and foreign policy attitudes toward China. This is a highly competitive award: a single awardee is selected per School. Congratulations D.G.!

The Marsha Chandler Fellowship is awarded each year to second-year Political Science graduate students in recognition of their academic excellence in their first and second years of the program. 

Recent Recipients

Linnea Graham  

Mengyuan Hao

Olivia Ortega

Jonathan Carlos

Junyoung Han

Marcelo Wilchinski

 

 

Each year, the Department of Political Science selects TA Excellence Award recipients based on TA evaluations.

Graduate student TAs who have taught a section at least once during the academic year may self-nominate. Interested applicants tally all evaluations; the Faculty TA Liaison makes the final decision. Upper-division courses and lower-division sections in other departments do not count. The call for applications will be sent out via email in the summer directly following each academic year. 

2024-2025

Leonardo Bueno
Duong Pham
Furkan Benliogullari

2023-2024 

Yan Liu
Catarina Roman

2022-2023 

Sergio Guedes-Reis
Shelbi Swanson

2021-2022 

Anthony Anderson
Eric Thai

2020-2021 

Rachel Skillman

2018-2019 

Matthew Draper
Dang Do
Isabel Gotti
Alexandra Lange

2017-2018 

Lauren Ferry
Zoe Nemerever
Kristy Pathakis
Inbok Rhee

2016-2017 

Taylor Carlson
Julia Clark
John Kuk
Lauren Ferry
Kelly Matush
Abigail Vaughn

Past TA Excellence Award recipients

Scott Bailey
Leigh Bradberry
Allen Bolar
Garrett Bredell
Richard Carney
Rumman Chowdhury
Nathan Combes
Saul Cunow 
Hugh Dauffenbach
Mark Farrales
David Fisk
Kathleen Gallagher
Isabel Gotti
Scott Guenther
Michael Hawes
Jessica Hills
Paula Jacobson
Danielle Jung
Delynn Kaufman
Michael Kelly
Jason Kuo
David Lindsey
James Long
Daniel Maliniak
Blake McMahon
Heidi McNamara
Brandon Merrell
Nathan Monroe
Ellen Moule
Angela O'Mahony
Kristen Parks 
Justin Phillips
Andrew Poe
Stephanie Rickard
Skyler Roth
Alex Ruiz
David Selby
Sam Seljan
Jaime Settle 
Ike Sharpless 
Christopher Shortell
Mona Vakilifathi
Abigail Vaughn
Alan Ward
Rosco Williamson
Wendy Wong