The Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes full-time regular faculty members of University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments in teaching. Award winners must have held faculty status at UAB for a minimum of three years and may receive the award only once in any three-year period.

The CAS President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Committee selected the 2021 award recipients from each of the following disciplines:

• Arts and Humanities: Art and Art History, Music, Theatre, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, and Philosophy
• Natural Sciences and Mathematics: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Physics, and Mathematics
• Social and Behavioral Sciences: African American Studies, Anthropology, Communication Studies, Criminal Justice, Political Science and Public Administration, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology

The 2021 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching winners include:

Brynn Welch, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy

Shahid Mukhtar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in the Department of Biology

Peter Jones, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration

Also, in the near future, one of these winners will be awarded the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.