Awards and Honors for 2021-2022
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Awardees 2021-2022
| Name | Title | Department |
| Seth Cluett | Lecturer in Music, Computer Music and Sound Studies | Music |
| Lila Davachi | Professor of Psychology | Psychology |
| Jeremy Dodd | Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Physics | Physics |
| Susan Elmes | Andrew Barth Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Economics | Economics |
| Dorothea Lasky | Associate Professor | School of the Arts/Writing |
| Graciela Montaldo | Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures | Latin American and Iberian Cultures |
| Amy Starecheski | Lecturer in the Discipline of Sociology | Sociology |
| Alan Stewart | Professor of English and Comparative Literature | English & Comparative Literature |
Awards and Honors for 2020-2021
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Awardees 2020-2021
| Name | Title | Department |
| Frank Guridy | Associate Professor of History and of African American and African Diaspora Studies | History |
| Ivana Hughes | Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry | Frontiers of Science/Chemistry |
| Susan Mendelsohn | Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature | ENCL/UWP |
| Brinkley Messick | Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies; Director, Middle East Institute | Anthropology/MESAAS |
| Deborah Paredez | Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Writing in the Faculty of the Arts | School of the Arts/Writing |
| Xavier Roy | Associate Professor | Chemistry |
| Chris Washburne | Professor of Music | Music |
| Tian Zheng | Professor | Statistics |
Awards and Honors for 2019-2020
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Awardees 2019-2020
| Name | Title | Department |
| Maria Abascal | Assistant Professor | Sociology |
| Vanessa Agard-Jones | Assistant Professor | Anthropology |
| Niall Bolger | Professor | Psychology |
| Denise Cruz | Professor | English & Comparative Literature |
| Madeline Dobie | Professor | French |
| Duncan Menge | Associate Professor | Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology |
| Rhiannon Stephens | Associate Professor | History |
| Madeline Zelin | Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies | EALAC |
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Awardees 2018-2019
| Name | Title | Department |
| Taoufik Ben-Amor | Gordon Gray Jr Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies | MESAAS |
| Matthew Hart | Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature | English & Comp Lit |
| Kimuli Kasara | Associate Professor of Political Science | Political Science |
| Benjamin Marcus | Professor of Writing | Writing Program, School of the Arts |
| Serena Ng | Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics | Economics |
| Pier Mattia Tommasino | Assistant Professor of Italian | Italian |
| Gray Tuttle | Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies | East Asian Languages & Cultures |
| Maria Uriarte | Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology | Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology |
Awards and Honors for 2017-2018
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Awardees 2017-2018
| Name | Title | Department |
| Courtney Bender | Professor of Religion | Religion |
| Eleanor B. Johnson | Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature | English & Comparative Literature |
| Branden Joseph | Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art | Art History & Archaeology |
| Molly F. Przeworski | Professor of Biological Sciences and Systems Biology | Biological Sciences |
| Shelley A. Saltzman | Senior Lecturer in Discipline | American Language Program |
| Neslihan Senocak | Associate Professor of History | History |
| Josef Sorett | Associate Professor of Religion and African-American Studies | Religion |
| Marc Van de Mieroop | Professor of History | History |
Awards and Honors for 2016-2017
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Awardees 2016-2017
| Name | Title | Department |
| Elisheva Carlebach | Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society | History |
| James Curley | Assistant Professor of Psychology | Psychology |
| Valentina B. Izmirlieva | Professor of Slavic Languages; Chair of Slavic Languages | Slavic Languages |
| Matthew McKelway | Takeo and Itsuko Atsumi Professor of Japanese Art History; Chair, Art Humanities | Art History & Archaeology |
| Samuel K. Roberts | Associate Professor of History and of Sociomedical Sciences | History/Sociomedical Sciences |
| Rachel A. Rosen | Assistant Professor of Physics | Physics |
| Dustin Rubenstein | Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology | Ecology Evolution Environ Bio |
| Oliver Simons | Associate Professor of Germanic Languages | Germanic Languages |
Year | Honorees | Arts and Sciences Department(s) | |
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2015-2016 | Marcel Agűeros | Astronomy | |
| Gil Anidjar | Religion | |
| Susan Boynton | Music | |
| Terence D’Altroy | Anthropology | |
| Timothy Donnelly | School of the Arts/Writing | |
| Michael Golston | English & Comparative Literature | |
| Barbel Honisch | Earth & Environmental Sciences | |
| Dana Pe’er | Biological Sciences | |
2014-2015 | Brian Cole | Physics | |
| Patricia Dailey | English and Comparative Literature | |
| Souleymane Bachir Diagne | French and Romance Philology | |
| Bradford Garton | Music | |
| Stathis Gourgouris | Classics | |
| Rebecca Kobrin | History | |
| Liza Knapp | Slavic Languages | |
| Feng Li | East Asian Languages and Cultures | |
| Molly Murray | English and Comparative Literature | |
| Carol Rovane | Philosophy |
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| Dorothea von Mücke | Germanic Languages | |
2013-2014 | Elizabeth Blackmar | History | |
| Virginia Page Fortna | Political Science | |
| Erik Gray | English and Comparative Literature | |
| Peter Kelemen | Earth and Environmental Sciences | |
| Ioannis Mylonopoulos | Art History and Archaeology | |
| Christine Philliou | History | |
| Valerie Purdie-Vaughns | Psychology | |
| Joanna Stalnaker | French and Romance Philology | |
| Brent Stockwell | Biology | |
| Rafael Yuste | Biolgoy | |
2012-2013 | Frances A. Champagne | Psychology | |
| Jean Cohen | Political Science | |
| Giuseppe Gerbino | Music | |
| Don J. Melnick | Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology | |
| Rosalind C. Morris | Anthropology | |
| Gerard Parkin | Chemistry | |
| Caterina Pizzigoni | History | |
| Ovidiu Savin | Mathematics | |
| Melissa Schwartzberg | Political Science | |
| Joseph Slaughter | English and Comparative Literature | |
2011-2012 | Fredrick C. Harris | Political Science | |
| Laura J. Kaufman | Chemistry | |
| Holger A. Klein | Art History and Archaeology | |
| Mark Mazower | History | |
| Frances Negron-Muntaner | Slavic Languages | |
| Cathy Popkin | Slavic Languages | |
| Emmanuelle Saada | French and Romance Philology | |
| Robert Y. Shapiro | Political Science | |
| Daphna Shohamy | Psychology | |
2010-2011 | Rachel Adams | English and Comparative Literature | |
| Stuart Firestein | Biological Sciences | |
| Mahmood Mamdani | Anthropology | |
| Stephen Murray | Art History and Archaeology | |
| Paul Olsen | Earth and Environmental Sciences | |
| Susan Pedersen | History | |
| Achille Varzi | Philosophy | |
| Katharina Volk | Classics | |
2009-2010 | Stefan Andriopoulos | Germanic Languages | |
| Harmen Bussemaker | Biological Sciences | |
| Julie Crawford | English and Comparative Literature | |
| Steve Goldstein | Earth and Environmental Sciences | |
| Lydia Goehr | Philosophy | |
| Ruben Gonzalez | Chemistry | |
| David Scott | Anthropology | |
2008-2009 | Francesco de Angelis | Art History and Archaeology | |
| Christopher Brown | History | |
| Brent Edwards | English and Comparative Literature | |
| Darcy Kelley | Biological Sciences | |
| Philip Kitcher | Philosophy | |
| Kevin Ochsner | Psychology | |
| Nadia Urbinati | Political Science | |
2007-2008 | Lila Abu-Lughod | Anthropology | |
| Zainab Bahrani | Art History and Archaeology | |
| Nicholas Dames | English and Comparative Literature | |
| Peter deMenocal | Earth and Environmental Sciences | |
| Sharon Marcus | English and Comparative Literature | |
| Amber Miller | Physics | |
| Shahid Naeem | Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology | |
| Colin Nuckolls | Chemistry | |
| Pablo Piccato | History | |
| Sudhir Venkatesh | Sociology | |
| Katja Vogt | Philosophy | |
2006-2007 | Virginia W. Cornish | Chemistry | |
| Geraldine Downey | Psychology | |
| Robert E. Harrist, Jr. | Art History and Archaeology | |
| Rashid Khalidi | History | |
| Philip Kim | Physics | |
| Samuel A. Moyn | History | |
| Robert G. O’Meally | English and Comparative Literature | |
| Elizabeth A. Povinelli | Anthropology | |
| Xavier Sala-i-Martin | Economics | |
| Wei Shang | East Asian Languages and Cultures | |
2005-2006 | Janet M. Conrad | Physics | |
| Jonathan K. Crary | Art History and Archaeology | |
| Jenny M. Davidson | English and Comparative Literature | |
| Gil Eyal | Sociology | |
| Pierre Force | French and Romance Philology | |
| Farah Jasmine Griffin | English and Comparative Literature | |
| Matthew L. Jones | History | |
| James L. Leighton | Chemistry | |
| Eric Jean-Paul Urban | Mathematics | |
| Gareth David Williams | Classics |