Previous Award Recipients
Teaching Awards Ceremony
Every year the Center for Teaching Excellence, Office of Graduate Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences host a combined ceremony to recognize dedicated UNM educators.
Award winners are chosen for their commitment to excellent teaching, community engagement and their innovative pedagogy.
We invite colleagues, family, friends to attend the ceremony.
2022-2023 Teaching Excellence Award Recipients:
2023—2025 Presidential Teaching Fellow
Maria Lane
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Outstanding Teacher of the Year
Megan Jacobs
Honors College
New Teacher of the Year
Miriam Gay-Antaki
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Lecturer of the Year
Cherry Singhal
Department of Marketing, Information, & Decision Sciences
Karen Odell
Taos Branch Campus
Online Teacher of the Year
Tiffany Bourelle
Department of English
Branch Campus Tenure-Track Teacher of the Year
Dr. Aretha Matt
Gallup Branch Campus
Susan Deese-Roberts Outstanding Teaching Assistants of the Year
Daniel Kowalczyk
Department of Mathematics Statistics
Fátima Dutra
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Jorge Hernández
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Klara Hedling
Department of Philosophy
Zachary Ramsey
Department of Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy
Previous Award Recipients
- Laura Haniford (Presidential)
Ilia Rodriguez Nazario (Outstanding)
Meggan Gould (Outstanding)
Jingjing Wang (New Teacher)
Llewelynn "Welly" Fletcher (New Teacher)
Mr. Peng Yu (Lecturer)
Dr. Summer Hayek (Lecturer
Dr. Marina Popova (Online)
Dr. Jerry Godbout (Branch Tenure)
Korina Apodaca Cordova (Outstanding TA)
Austin Bell (Outstanding TA)
Jessie Bonafede (Outstanding TA)
Sean Fullerton (Outstanding TA)
Keisuke Kimura (Outstanding TA)
- Rosa Vallejos-Yópan (Presidential)
- Felisha Rohan-Minjares (Outstanding)
- Caroline Scruggs (Outstanding)
- Fletcher Christensen (New Teacher)
Sarah Townsend (New Teacher) - Frances Vitali (Lecturer)
- Breanna Griego-Schmitt (Affiliated Faculty)
- Tracy Lassiter (Branch Tenure)
- Cecille Perales (Branch Lecturer)
- Huey Yi Chang (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
Jordan O. James (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
Stefan Koekemoer (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
Andrea Quijada (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
Anja Sanchez (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
Amy Schofield (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Manuel Montoya (Presidential)
- Eva Rodriguez Gonzalez (Outstanding)
- Christine Zuni Cruz (Outstanding)
- Maryam Ahranjani (New Teacher)
- Heather Sweetser (Lecturer)
- Alaa Quarishi (Affiliated Faculty)
- Marissa Greenberg (Online Teacher)
- Josefina Bittar Prieto (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Motomi Kajitani (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Jonathan Keller (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Erin Gould (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Emma Mincks (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Amy Gore (Teaching Assistant)
- Bethany Davila (Outstanding)
- Camille Dwyer (Teaching Assistant)
- Cristyn Elder (Outstanding)
- Darin Brown (Teaching Assistant)
- David Paez (Teaching Assistant)
- Debra Nieto (Teaching Assistant)
- Julianne Newark (New Lecturer)
- Marygold Walsh-Dilley (New Teacher)
- Noah Painter (New Teacher)
- Shirley Heying (Online Teacher)
- Tamar Ginossar (Presidential)
- Asal Naseri (New Lecturer)
- Benjamin Burnett (Teaching Assistant)
- Christopher Butler (Presidential)
- Finnie Coleman (Outstanding)
- Heather Canavan (Outstanding)
- Jami Nunez (New Teacher)
- Jason Moore (New Teacher)
- Kate Cartwright (New Teacher)
- Kellin Rumsey (Teaching Assistant)
- Kelly C. Da Silva (Teachin Assistant)
- Mary Hershberger (Teaching Assistant)
- Peter Lisignoli (New Lecturer)
- Regina Puccetti (New Lecturer)
- Sarah Worland (Teaching Assistant)
- Abdelbaset Haridy (Teaching Assistant)
- Brian Goldstein (New Teacher)
- Bruno Gagnon (Outstanding)
- Christopher Butler (Teacher)
- Colin Olson (Lecturer)
- Cristyn Elder (New Teacher)
- David Schneider (Lecturer)
- J. Hugo Garcia Macias (Teaching Assistant)
- Jesse Aleman (Presidential)
- Jocelyn Gonzales (Rios) (Teaching Assistant)
- Maria Velez (Teacher)
- Phillip Schoenberg (Teaching Assistant)
- Ryan Goodman (Lecturer)
- Zoe Speidel (Teaching Assistant)
- Brian Goldstein (New Teacher)
- Allen E. Butt (Lecturer)
- Amy L. Brandzel (Teacher)
- Ana June (Teacher Assistant)
- Andrew S. Taylor (Teacher Assistant)
- Bernadine Hernández (New Teacher)
- Emma Gale Trentman (New Teacher)
- Kathryn McKnight (Teacher)
- Kelly Van Andel (Outstanding)
- Laura L. Burton (Lecturer)
- Lloyd L. Lee (Presidential)
- Malik Barrett (Teacher Assistant)
- Mel Strong (Lecturer)
- Monica Mancillas (Teacher Assistant)
- Rachel F. Gift (Teacher Assistant)
