Information as of April 2006
• Year of first award: 1959
• No awards were given 1965-1970
• Year with most recipients: 1971, with 11
• Years with fewest: 1973 and 2005 with 1
• Percent of total faculty who have received the Distinguished Teaching Award: 4.75%.
(Considering the total number of faculty who have taught at Berkeley since 1959, and the total number of have received the Distinguished Teaching Award.) This piece of data generated in 2004.
• As of spring 2006, percent of Distinguished Teaching Awards as measured against current faculty: 10.9%
(219 total awards. 2026 current instructional faculty headcount from the Office of the President, data 2005)
• Rank of recipients from 1980 to 2006:
| 84 Full professors | 65% | |
| 22 Associate professors | 17% | |
| 12 Assistant Professors | 9% | |
| 8 lecturers | 5% | |
| 4 “other”–one adjunct, one acting, one supervisor of PE, one Senior Lecturer SOE | 3% |
• The Assistant Professors. The last time an Assistant Professor received the DTA was 1992. Of the twelve total awarded up through 2006, nine are here or retired, and three left.
Timothy Crichfield 1980, Haas—left for business
Joseph Pratt, 1981, Haas—now full professor at University of Houston
Laura Tyson, 1982, Haas—later became Dean, etc.
John Ousterhout, 1985, EECS was here for a number of years—left for business
Frances Van Loo, 1985, Haas, has now retired from Haas after a distinguished career
Keith Gilless, 1988, ESPM, is now a Full Professor and one of the Deans
Sue Schweik, 1989, English, now Associate and founder of Disability Studies Program
Ray Seed, 1989, Civil Engineering—now Full professor
Michael Omi, 1990, Ethnic Studies, now Full Professor and Chair of the department
Dennis Lieu, 1992, ME, now Full Professor
David Wagner, 2006, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Ananya Roy, 2006, City and Regional Planning
• The Lecturers. All those awarded since 1980 are still here, and of the total ever awarded only one has left.
Steve Tollefson, 1984, Subject A (now College Writing)
Kathleen Moran, 1994, UGIS, Letters and Science
Brian Harvey, 1995, EECS
Jane Hammons (Jones), 1998, College Writing
Seda Chavdarian, 2001 French
Usha Jain, 2002, SSEAS
Ani Adhikari, 2006, Statistics
The only other lecturer to receive the award was Nell Altizer from Subject A in 1974. She later became a Full Professor at the University of Hawaii.
• Other titles since 1980:
Marjorie Shultz, 1983, Acting Professor,Law—now emeritus
Sunni Bloland, 1990, Supervisor of P.E., Dance, retired
Sara Beckman, 2001, Haas (but she’s Senior Lec SOE)—still here
Martha Olney, 2003, Econ, Adjunct Professor—still here
• As of 2006, total awarded since 1959:
219 faculty
50 departments*
*a problem in determining the number of departments is the substantial number of changes in composition of departments, as well as name changes, over the years.
• Departments with the highest number of DTAs (as of 2005) since 1959:
| English: | 22 | |
| EECS: | 12 | |
| Law: | 11 | |
| Physics: | 11 | |
| Integrative Biology: | 11 | |
| Business: | 9 | |
| Mechanical Engineering: | 9 | |
| Psychology: | 9 |
• Currently constituted departments that have not had a Distinguished Teacher (This data may be somewhat suspect, since, again, composition of departments changes. There are of course many groups and majors that are not departments.)
Agriculture and Resource Economics
Art Practice
Bioengineering
Demography
Earth and Planetary Science (Geology and Geophysics)
Gender and Women’s Studies
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Information Management
International and Area Studies
Italian
Landscape Architecture
Nuclear Engineering
Nutritional Sciences
Optometry
Scandinavian
Spanish and Portuguese
• Invitations to the annual Banquet go to 130 past recipients. This includes those still teaching full time, emeriti who are still teaching, and some emeriti who no longer teach, but participate in campus activities.
• H. Bolton Seed, 1976 and Raymond B. Seed, 1989, both of Civil Engineering, are the only relatives to have won the award (father and son).
• Chronological list of recipients and rank at time of the award since 1980:
2006
Ani Adhikari, Lecturer, Statistics
Ananya Roy, Assitant, City and Regional Planning
David Wagner, Assistant, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
2005
Kevis Goodman, Associate, English
2004
F. Michael Christ, Full, Mathematics
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Full, Philosophy
H. Mack Horton, Full, East Asian Languages
Bob Jacobsen, Associate, Physics
Linda Williams, Full, Film/Rhetoric
2003
Glynda Hull, Full, Education
Martha Olney, Adjunct, Economics
Jeff Reimer, Full, Chemical Engineering
2002
Tyrone Hayes, Associate, Integrative Biology
Usha R. Jain, Lecturer, South and Southeast Asian Studies
Jeffrey Knapp, Associate, English
Leslie Kurke, Full, Classics
Stephen C. Welter, Full, ESPM
2001
Sara Beckman, Senior Lecturer, Haas
Carolyn Bertozzi, Associate, Chemistry
Seda Chavdarian, Lecturer, French
Ronald Gronsky, Full, Materials Science and Engineering
2000
Claire J. Kramsch, Full, German
Nilabh Shastri, Associate, Molecular and Cell Biology
Eleanor Swift, Full, Law
1999
Anil K. Chopra, Full, Civil Engineering
Richard A. Muller, Full, Physics
Oliver M. O’Reilly, Associate, Mechanical Engineering
John R. Searle, Full, Philosophy
1998
Jesse H. Choper, Full, Law
Anne Haas Dyson, Full, Education
Donald M. Friedman, Full, English
Patricia Jane (Jones) Hammons, Lecturer, College Writing
Richard K. Lyons, Associate, Haas
1997
Elizabeth Abel, Associate, English
Chenming Hu, Full, EECS
Pedro A. Noguera, Associate, Education
Deborah Nolan, Associate, Statistics
Jasper Rine, Full, Molecular and Cell Biology
1996
Lewis J. Feldman, Full, Plant Biology
Robert J. Full, Full, Integrative Biology
Robert Middlekauff, Full, History
Kameshwar Poolla, Full, Mechanical Engineering
Rhona S. Weinstein, Full, Psychology
1995
Gary L. Firestone, Full, Molecular and Cell Biology
Brian Harvey, Lecturer, EECS
Rachel F. Moran, Full, Law
Andrew Packard, Full, Chemical Engineering
Vincent H. Resh, Full, ESPM
1994
Alan Dundes, Full, Anthropology
Kathleen Moran, Lecturer, L&S, Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies
Clayton J. Radke, Full, Civil Engineering
Christina D. Romer, Full, Economics
1993
Julian Boyd, Associate, English
William Fletcher, Full, Boalt
Harry Greene, Full, Integrative Biology
Geoffrey Keppel, Full, Psychology
1992
Randy Katz, Full, EECS
Dennis Lieu, Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
David M. Modest, Associate, Business
Richard J. Saykally, Full, Chemistry
Arnold Schultz, Full, Conservation and Resource Studies
1991
Barbara T. Christian, Full, African American Studies
Alex V. Filippenko, Associate, Astronomy
Joe McBride, Full, Forestry
James L. Patton, Full, Integrative Biology
Angelica Stacy, Associate, Chemistry
Michael Watts, Full, Geography
1990
Frances Sunni Bloland, Supervisor, Physical Education
Melvin A. Eisenberg, Full, Law
Ole Hald, Full, Math
Arnold Leiman, Full, Psychology
Michael Omi, Assistant, Asian American Studies
1989
Earl F. Cheit, Full, Business
Anthony Newcomb, Full, Music
Susan Schweik, Assistant, English
Raymond B. Seed, Assistant, Civil Engineering
1988
J. Keith Gilless, Assistant, ESPM
J. W. Morris, Full, Materials Science and Engineering
Eyvind Wichmann, Full, Physics
Michael Williams, Full, Chemical Engineering
Terry Wilson, Associate, Native American Studies
1987
Robert Berring, Full, Law
Erich Gruen, Full, History
Christina Maslach, Associate, Psychology
Marc Treib, Full, Architecture
David K. C. Wood, Full, Dramatic Art
1986
Janet Adelman, Full, English
Svetlana Alpers, Full, History of Art
Mark Griffth, Full, Classics
Donald Hanson, Full, Chemical Engineering
J. D. Jackson, Full, Physics
Richard M. Karp, Full, EECS
Alexander Pines, Full, Chemistry
1985
James Cahill, Full, History of Art
Arthur Quinn, Full, Rhetoric
Frederick Crews, Full, English
David Littlejohn, Full, Journalism
John Ousterhout, Assistant, EECS
Frances Van Loo, Assistant, Haas
1984
James Gordley, Full, Law
Arnold Meltsner, Full, Public Policy
Frank Pitelka, Full, Zoology
Norman Rabkin, Full, English
Stephen Tollefson, Lecturer, Subject A (now College Writing Programs)
1983
Philip Cowan, Full, Psychology
John Clarke, Full, Physics
Caleb Foote, Full, Law
Stephen Greenblatt, Full, English
Kenneth Jowitt, Full, Political Science
Steven Selvin, Associate, Public Health
Marjorie Shultz, Acting Professor, Law
1982
Stephen Booth, Full, English
Howell Daly, Full, Entomology
James Deetz, Full, Anthropology
David Kirp, Full, Public Policy
David Patterson, Associate, Computer Science
Hanna Pitkin, Full, Political Science
Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Assistant, Economics
1981
John Gaustad, Full, Astronomy
James Matisoff, Full, Linguistics
Joseph Pratt, Assistant, Haas
William Reeves, Full, Public Health
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Associate, EECS
Ronald Takaki, Full, Ethnic Studies
1980
Timothy Crichfield, Assistant, Haas
Sumner Davis, Full, Physics
Lee Friedman, Associate, Public Policy
Anne Middleton, Associate, English
Richard Sutch, Full, Economics