The Jessica Melton Perry Award for Distinguished Teaching in Disciplinary & Professional Writing award recognizes teaching that has contributed to the development of student writing within academic and professional fields across the university (other than English). Nominees can be tenure-track or non-tenure track regular faculty currently employed in any school or college at Case Western Reserve. This award is designed to recognize instructors who have helped their students publish academic/scholarly work, instructors/mentors of graduate/professional students, and/or instructors of UGER Disciplinary Writing courses and Senior Capstones (where discipline-specific writing is taught). For more information, please email [email protected].
Award Recipients
2025
- Karen Beckwith, PhD
Flora Stone Mather Professor in the Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
2024
- Elina Gertsman, PhD
Distinguished University Professor, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Art History, College of Arts and Sciences - Suet Kam Lam, MS, MPH, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
2022
- Jennifer Carter, PhD
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Case School of Engineering
2021
- Ralph Harvey, PhD
Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences
2020
- Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM, SJD
Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Jurisprudence, School of Law
2019
- Frank Ernst, PhD
Leonard Case Jr. Professor of Engineering & Chair of Materials Science & Engineer, College of Engineering - Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD
Theodore J. Castele Professor of History, College of Arts and Sciences
2018
- Wanda Strychalski, PhD
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences
2017
- Vanessa Hildebrand, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
2016
- Georgia Cowart, PhD
Professor of Music, College of Arts and Sciences
2015
- Ricardo Apostol, PhD
Assistant Professor of Classics, College of Arts and Sciences
2014
- Helen Salz, PhD
Professor of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine
2013
- Eileen Anderson-Fye, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
2012
- Jeffrey Capadona, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering
2010
- Renee M. Sentilles, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences
2009
- Elizabeth G. Damato, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC
Associate Professor, Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing