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Award-winning faculty

The MENA Languages program has an exceptional teaching faculty who regularly receives awards and accolades for teaching. Every faculty member makes a concerted effort to offer classes that are engaging, motivating, and intellectually fulfilling, that broaden and deepen learning environments and bring current facets of the new language and culture to each class. This dedication to teaching is not only reflected in the success of our students who continue to win prestigious awards, but also in the many teaching awards our faculty earned. Here is a list of the various teaching awards won by our current faculty:

FACULTY TEACHING AWARDS
Name Award
Fadia Antabli INTERNAL:
  • WCAS Distinguished Teaching Award (2015-16)
  • ASG Faculty Honor Roll (2016-17)
Chyi Chung INTERNAL:
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Fatima Khan INTERNAL:
  • WCAS Distinguished Teaching Award (2019)
  • Pi Beta Phi Professor of the Year Award (2009)
  • ASG Faculty Honor Roll (2010-11, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2019-2020
Ragy Mikhaeel INTERNAL:
  • CLI Excellence in Language Teaching Award (2014-15)
Rana Raddawi INTERNAL:
    • ASG Faculty Honor Roll (2019-20)
    • CLI Excellence in Language Teaching Award (2025-2026)
Hanna Tzuker Seltzer

INTERNAL:

  • CLI Excellence in Language Teaching Award (2023-2024)

EXTERNAL:

  • Excellence in Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley (2012)
Oya  Topçuoğlu INTERNAL:
  • ASG Faculty Honor Roll (2018-19)