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Graduate Program

Graduate Student Teaching Award

The Department of History prides itself on its devotion to undergraduate education and fine teaching. The Graduate Teaching Award is presented annually to a PhD student whose teaching has been outstanding. Applicants must have completed their PhD overview examination and have extensive teaching experience, including an independently taught course. The awardee is chosen by a committee of award-winning history faculty and receives recognition at a department ceremony along with a monetary award.

2001 Award Recipient: Vanessa Sterling

Vanessa Sterling is writing a doctoral thesis titled "The Force of Common Blood: The Korean Community and Ethnic Politics in Northeast China, 1880–1992."

2000 Award Recipient: Mary Redd Magnotta

Mary Redd Magnotta is writing a doctoral thesis titled "The Influence of Tacitean Discourse in Early Stuart Historiography."

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For more information about the graduate program please contact:

Alejandro de la Fuente
Graduate Director
fuente2@pitt.edu

or

Molly Estes
Graduate Secretary
wid2@pitt.edu