The Graduate School is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2026 Centennial Dean's Awards, recognizing excellence in mentoring, teaching, and inclusive initiatives in the School's centennial year.
View the recipients' profiles below, including their thoughts on mentoring and teaching, and accolades shared by their faculty, student, and staff colleagues.
Excellence in Teaching
The Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes Ph.D. students who best exemplify the characteristics of effective college teaching as they prepare for lives of service, leadership, and teaching.
2026 Recipients
Excellence in Mentoring
The Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Mentoring recognizes the considerable efforts and accomplishments of faculty and graduate students who consistently serve as effective mentors. Designed to allow the university community to identify faculty and graduate students who embody both the letter and spirit of mentoring, these awards are important examples of the university’s continuing efforts to cultivate a culture of mentoring.
2026 Faculty Recipients
2026 Student Recipients
Inclusive Excellence in Graduate Education
The Graduate School created the Dean’s Award for Inclusive Excellence in Graduate Education to acknowledge extraordinary achievements by departments and programs that help create an environment of inclusive excellence in graduate education.
Bridge-to-the-Ph.D. Fellowship Program
The Department of Classical Studies is honored for their Bridge-to-the-Ph.D. Fellowship Program, which is designed to lower barriers of access to graduate study for talented students who would benefit from an additional year of language training before matriculating into the Classical Studies Ph.D. program. Bridge Fellows are selected by the faculty of Classical Studies to spend a fully-funded (tuition and Ph.D.-level stipend) year in the department working intensively on the type of language training required for success in graduate work in the field.
The executive team of the program, comprising Classical Studies Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor Josh Sosin, Ph.D., and Associate Professor and Fellowship Advisor Lauren D. Ginsberg, Ph.D., will be honored with the award, which includes a $5,000 contribution into the program's discretionary fund, in April 2026.