Quantrell Award
 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
| Quantrell Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching |
| Sponsored by | Ernest Quantrell |
| Presented by | University of Chicago |
| Established | 1938 |
The Quantrell Award, or the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching is a prize awarded by the University of Chicago for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
History
[edit]The award was established in 1938 through an anonymous endowment from University of Chicago trustee Ernest Quantrell.[1] The award is presented to between three and six recipients each year, who are nominated by the students.[2] It is believed by the university to be the oldest prize for undergraduate teaching in the United States.[3] It comes with a stipend, which was originally $1,000.[4][5]
In 1947, Louise Roberts became the first woman to receive the Quantrell Award.[6]
In 1952, Quantrell agreed to make his contribution known and named the prize after his parents.[1]
As of 2019, the university required recipients to be full-time, tenure track faculty or senior lecturers.[7]
Recipients
[edit]Notable recipients of the award have been:[1]
- 2025: Eleonory Gilburd, Lenore Grenoble
- 2023: Leora Auslander, Robert L. Kendrick
- 2022: David Schmitz
- 2021: Jonathan R. Lyon, Ada Palmer
- 2020: David Archer, Susan Gal
- 2019: Berthold Hoeckner, Maryanthe Malliaris
- 2018: Boaz Keysar
- 2017: Andrew Abbott, Agnes Callard, Bana Jabri
- 2014: John E. Woods
- 2013: Jeffrey A. Harvey
- 2012: Howard Nusbaum, Jason Merchant, Cathy Cohen
- 2011: Angela Olinto, Charles Lipson
- 2009: Amy Dru Stanley, Jonathan M. Hall
- 2008: Eric Larsen, Michael Kremer
- 2007: Thomas Pavel
- 2006: Russell Tuttle
- 2005: Kenneth W. Warren, László Babai
- 2004: David Jablonski
- 2003: Bernard Roizman, Susan Goldin-Meadow
- 2002: Mario Santana, John Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
- 2001: Danielle Allen
- 2000: D. Gale Johnson, David G. Grier, Shadi Bartsch
- 1999: Moishe Postone, Susan Kidwell, Bertram Cohler
- 1998: Stephen Stigler, Steven Levitt
- 1997: Lawrence McEnerney, Elizabeth Alexander
- 1996: Sidney Nagel, James Hopson, Hanna Holborn Gray
- 1995: Richard Kron
- 1994: Michael J. Wade, Ingrid Rowland, James Cronin
- 1993: Gerald Rosenberg, Edward Kolb, Laurie Butler
- 1992: Richard Saller, Fred Donner
- 1991: David Malament
- 1990: Peter White, Harold Richman, Leo P. Kadanoff, Philip Kurland
- 1989: Lauren Berlant, Constantin Fasolt
- 1988: Jan Goldstein
- 1987: James Redfield, Karl Weintraub
- 1986: Jonathan Z. Smith, David W. Oxtoby
- 1985: John Mearsheimer, Anna Crone
- 1984: Dennis Hutchinson, Jean Comaroff
- 1983: William H. McNeill, Ted Cohen, Leon Kass
- 1982: Robert J. Richards, Edward Garber, Janel Mueller
- 1981: Sam Peltzman, Mark Inghram
- 1980: John Alexander Simpson, Amy Kass, Robert Geroch
- 1979: Marvin Zonis, David Bevington
- 1978: Herbert Friedmann
- 1976: Richard Taub
- 1975: William Veeder, Bertram Cohler
- 1974: Philip Gossett
- 1973: John Hubby, Norman Maclean, Edward Anders
- 1972: Wayne Booth, H. Gregg Lewis, Richard Beals
- 1971: Peter Meyer, Richard McKeon, Donald N. Levine
- 1970: Stuart Rice, Joseph Cropsey, Easley Blackwood Jr.
- 1969: Henry Rago, Virgil Burnett, Isaac Abella
- 1968: Dudley Shapere
- 1967: Gilbert F. White, David Wake
- 1966: Elder Olson
- 1965: James M. Redfield
- 1964: Ralph Lerner, John Cawelti
- 1963: Richard Lashof, McKim Marriott
- 1962: Edward Wasiolek
- 1961: Irving Kaplansky
- 1960: Karl Weintraub
- 1959: Lawrence Bogorad
- 1958: Stuart Tave, Maynard Krueger
- 1957: Reuel Denney
- 1956: Rosalie Wax
- 1954: Beatrice Mintz
- 1952: Alfred Putnam
- 1949: Warner Wick, Richard M. Weaver,
- 1948: Milton Singer
- 1947: Louise Roberts (first woman to receive the prize) Benson Ginsburg
- 1946: Robert Keohane
- 1944: Everett Olson
- 1942: Russell Thomas, David Daiches
- 1941: Norman Maclean
- 1940: James Cate
- 1939: Ralph Buchsbaum
- 1938: Joseph Schwab
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching". UChicago.
- ^ "University Rejects Faculty Forward's Grievance on Denial of Quantrell Eligibility". Chicago Maroon.
- ^ "UChicago announces 2025 winners of Quantrell and Ph.D. teaching awards". UChicago.
- ^ Richard M. Weaver, 1910-1963: A Life of the Mind. p. 166.
- ^ "Letters, Oct. 26, 1959". Time.
- ^ "The University of Chicago Magazine, issue 97". The University of Chicago Magazine. p. 77.
- ^ "Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Should Be Eligible for the Quantrell Prize". Chicago Maroon.