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 The award was established in 1938 through an anonymous endowment from University of Chicago trustee Ernest Quantrell. The award is presented to between three and six recipients each year, who are nominated by the students. It is believed by the university to be the oldest prize for undergraduate teaching in the United States. It comes with a stipend, which was originally $1,000.
In 1947, Louise Roberts became the first woman to receive the Quantrell Award.
In 1952, Quantrell agreed to make his contribution known and named the prize after his parents.
As of 2019, the university required recipients to be full-time, tenure track faculty or senior lecturers.
Recipients Notable recipients of the award have been (please note the list below is incomplete as it does not include every recipient who won the award in some of the years):
2026: Nick Feamster, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson 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 , Gregory L. Hillhouse 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 (biochemist, not ornithologist of same name) 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
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