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Quantrell Award

Teaching award by the University of Chicago

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The Quantrell Award, or the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching is a prize awarded by the University of Chicago for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

01History

The award was established in 1938 through an anonymous endowment from University of Chicago trustee Ernest Quantrell. The award is presented to between three and six recipients each year, who are nominated by the students. It is believed by the university to be the oldest prize for undergraduate teaching in the United States. It comes with a stipend, which was originally $1,000.

In 1947, Louise Roberts became the first woman to receive the Quantrell Award.

In 1952, Quantrell agreed to make his contribution known and named the prize after his parents.

As of 2019, the university required recipients to be full-time, tenure track faculty or senior lecturers.

02Recipients

Notable recipients of the award have been (please note the list below is incomplete as it does not include every recipient who won the award in some of the years):

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