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The Quantrell Award, full name The Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, is an undergraduate teaching award given annually by the University of Chicago to faculty nominated by students in recognition of their undergraduate teaching.

The award is given to three to six faculty members each year. A nominated faculty member must have tenure and be either lecturers or professors at the university to receive it. The award is given as a sum of cash and is announced at the yearly graduation ceremony.

History

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According to the University of Chicago, it is thought to be the oldest undergraduate teaching award in the United States.[1]

The award was created in 1938 by a donation of money to the school by Ernest Quantrell. It was officially named the Quantrell Award in 1952 after his parents.[1] Quantrell describes his reason for the endowment:

“The success of a university depends on its product, and its product consists of students trained to lead happy, proficient, useful and unselfish lives. To obtain this product, a good faculty is essential and constitutes the most important part of a university. We have had, and still have, great teachers, but we will have still greater ones.”

Eligibility

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In order to qualify, a teacher must be nominated by students, be tenured or on the tenure track, and "serve as Senior Lecturers, Lecturers, Instructional Professors, or Professors of the Practice in the Arts of any rank or title"[2].

Non-tenured faculty have fought to be eligible for the award. Faculty Forward, the union representing non-tenure-track faculty at UChicago, has included language in their contract to secure eligibility[3] and has filed grievances against the college.[4] UChicago states the award is only offered to tenured faculty as it is meant to honor faculty in regard to their excellency beyond teaching, such as research, which non-tenured faculty do not do.

When the award was originally created, the university did not differentiate between faculty via tenure. Faculty Forwards estimates about 40% of undergraduate courses are taught by non-tenured professors.[4]

Award recipients by year

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Year Names
2023
  • Leora Auslander
  • Michael Gladders
  • Robert L. Kendrick
  • Phoebe Rice
  • James Sparrow
2022
  • David Kovar
  • Victor Lima
  • Julie Orlemanski
  • Johanna Ransmeier
  • David Schmitz
2021
  • Sally Horne-Badovinac
  • Patrick Jagoda
  • Jonathan R. Lyon
  • Ada Palmer
  • Blase Ur
2020
  • David Archer
  • Susan Gal
  • Miguel Martínez
  • Eric Schwartz
2019
  • Albert Bendelac
  • Claudia Brittenham
  • Berthold Hoeckner
  • Maryanthe Malliaris
  • Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
2018
  • Stuart Gazes
  • Kimberly Hoang
  • Boaz Keysar
  • Peggy Mason
  • Nadine Moeller
2017
  • Andrew Abbott
  • Agnes Callard
  • Bana Jabri
  • Scott Snyder
2016
  • Daniel McGehee
  • Derek Neal
  • Emily Lynn Osborn
  • Malte Willer
  • Sarah Ziesler
2015
  • Matthew Briones
  • Daniel E. Holz
  • Ilaria Rebay
  • Sara Ray Stoelinga
  • Martha Ward
2014
  • Daniel Brudney
  • Gregory Dwyer
  • Anne S. Henly
  • David A. Mazziotti
  • John E. Woods
2013
  • Christine Andrews
  • Jeffrey Harvey
  • Aden Kumler
  • Kristen Schilt
2012
  • Valentina Pichugin
  • Howard Nusbaum
  • Jason Merchant
  • Megan McNulty
  • Gregory Engel
  • Cathy Cohen
2011
  • Angela Olinto
  • Mark Osadjan
  • Adam Green
  • Charles Lipson
2010
  • Stephan Palmie
  • Anne Rogers
  • Darby English
  • Wendy Olmsted
  • Ronald Cohen
2009
  • Andreas Glaeser
  • Malynne Sternstein
  • Amy Dru Stanley
  • Jonathan Hall
  • Stuart Kurtz
  • Edwin Ferguson
2008
  • Janos Simon
  • Eric Larsen
  • Michael Kremer
  • Jessica Cattelino
2007
  • Thomas Pavel
  • Ka Yee Lee
  • Rachel Fulton
  • Matthew Brady
2006
  • Russell Tuttle
  • Jocelyn Malamy
  • Heinrich Jaeger
  • Helma Dik
2005
  • Holly Swyers
  • Kenneth Warren
  • Stephen Meredith
  • Dorothy Hanck
  • László Babai
2004
  • Jim Leitzel
  • Michael Green
  • David Jablonski
  • Nadine Di Vito
  • Martin Feder
2003
  • Christina von Nolcken
  • Bernard Roizman
  • Munir Humayan
  • Susan Goldin-Meadow
  • Edward Cook
2002
  • Mario Santana
  • Douglas MacAyeal
  • Gary Herrigel
  • Benjamin Glick
  • John Comaroff
  • Jean Comaroff
2001
  • Bernard Silberman
  • Marsha Rosner
  • Mark Oreglia
  • Danielle Allen
2000
  • Laurens Mets
  • D. Gale Johnson
  • David Grier
  • Shadi Bartsch
1999
  • Moishe Postone
  • Michael LaBarbera
  • Milton Ehre
  • Susan Kidwell
  • Bertram Cohler
1998
  • Stephen Stigler
  • Laura Slatkin
  • Allen Sanderson
  • Joseph Piccirilli
  • Steven Levitt
1997
  • Philip Ulinski
  • Nathan Tarcov
  • Lawrence McEnerney
  • Gregory Hillhouse
  • Elizabeth Alexander
1996
  • Sidney Nagel
  • James Hopson
  • Hanna Holborn Gray
  • Eric Caplan
1995
  • Stephen Pruett-Jones
  • Richard Kron
  • Herbert George
  • Kathleen N. Conzen
1994
  • Michael Wade
  • George Stocking Jr.
  • Ingrid Rowland
  • James Cronin
1993
  • Stuart Sherman
  • Gerald Rosenberg
  • Edward Kolb
  • Michael Dickinson
  • Laurie Butler
1992
  • Richard Saller
  • Joseph Jaraback & Thomas Jones
  • Charles Gray
  • Fred Donner
1991
  • Ursula Storb
  • David Malament
  • Diane Herrmann
  • Martin Burke
1990
  • Peter White
  • Bernard Strauss
  • Harold Richman
  • Leo P. Kadanoff
  • Philip Kurland
1989
  • Radovan Zak
  • John Frederick
  • Lauren Berlant
  • Constantin Fasolt
1988
  • Robert Peters
  • Arunas Liulevicius
  • J. David Greenstone
  • Monte Lloyd
  • Jan Goldstein
1987
  • Joseph Williams
  • Lorna Straus
  • James Redfield
  • Karl Weintraub
  • Frank Merritt
1986
  • Jose Quintans
  • Jonathan Z. Smith
  • Gerald Honigsblum
  • David Oxtoby
1985
  • Hugh Wilson
  • Alfred Putnam
  • John Mearsheimer
  • Anna Crone
1984
  • Robert Ferguson
  • David Draper
  • Dennis Hutchinson
  • Jean Comaroff
1983
  • Malka Moscona
  • William McNeill
  • Michael Turner
  • Ted Cohen
  • Leon Kass
1982
  • Robert Richards
  • Edward Garber
  • Robert Fefferman
  • Janel Mueller
1981
  • Sam Peltzman
  • Mark Inghram
  • Chi-Ch’ao Chao
  • Ronald A. Thisted
1980
  • John Simpson
  • John Macaloon
  • Amy Kass
  • Edward Haydon
  • Robert Geroch
1979
  • Peter Wyllie
  • Marvin Zonis
  • Clifford Gurney
  • David Bevington
1978
  • Melvin Shochet
  • Herbert Friedmann
1977
  • Ralph Nicholas
  • Norman Nachtrieb
  • Hewson Swift
1976
  • Leonard Olsen
  • Richard Taub
  • Francis Kinahan
1975
  • William Veeder
  • Beatrice Garber
  • Bertram Cohler
  • Paul Moore
1974
  • Leon Stock
  • Ira Kipnis
  • Philip Gossett
  • Robert Haselkorn
1973
  • Suzanne Rudolph
  • John Hubby
  • Norman Maclean
  • Edward Anders
1972
  • Richard Mintel
  • Robert Hummel
  • Wayne Booth
  • H. Gregg Lewis
  • Richard Beals
1971
  • Peter Meyer
  • Richard Mckeon
  • Philip Hoffmann
  • Donald Levine
1970
  • Lorna Straus
  • Stuart Rice
  • Joseph Cropsey
  • Easley Blackwood
1969
  • Henry Rago
  • Emile Karafiol
  • Manfred Ruddat
  • Virgil Burnett
  • Isaac Abella
1968
  • Dudley Shapere
  • Edward Kollar
  • John Jamieson
  • Lester Little
1967
  • Gilbert White
  • David Wake
  • Michael Murrin
  • Paul Sally Jr.
1966
  • Nathan Sugarman
  • David Orlinsky
  • Elder Olson
  • Arunas Liulevicius
1965
  • Joseph Schwab
  • James Redfield
  • Nien-Chu Yang
  • Eric Cochrane Jr.
1964
  • Ralph Lerner
  • John Cawelti
  • Sylvain Bromberger
  • Frank Child
1963
  • Herman Sinaiko
  • Gerson Rosenthal
  • Richard Lashof
  • Mckim Mariott

References

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  1. ^ a b "Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching". www.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  2. ^ "Undergraduate Teaching Awards". college.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
  3. ^ "AGREEMENT BETWEEN UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO and SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL No. 73 from May 1, 2021 Through April 30, 2024". https://seiu73.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UofC-CBA-May-1-2021-April-30-2024.pdf. Accessed 2024-03-20.
  4. ^ a b Chen, Elaine. "University Rejects Faculty Forward's Grievance on Denial of Quantrell Eligibility". Chicago Maroon. Retrieved 2024-03-20.