The Berkeley campus' most prestigious award for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Award is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in teaching. Such teaching rises above good teaching: it incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a life-long impact. While acknowledging the fact that the Berkeley faculty comprises many outstanding teachers, the Committee on Teaching is extremely selective in determining the recipients of this award: only 227 faculty have received the award since its inception in 1959.

The 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients:

Nezar AlSayyad
Professor, Architecture, Planning, and Urban Design
Chair, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Associate Dean, College of Environmental Design

Karl Ashoka Britto
Associate Professor, French and Comparative Literature

Stefano DellaVigna
Assistant Professor, Economics

Kaja Silverman
Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film Studies

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