Faculty Members Receive Promotions
May 15, 2019
Communications Staff
Eleven faculty members have been promoted to the rank of professor or associate professor. We asked each about their most memorable experience and what they enjoy about being a professor.
2017-2018 Excellence in Teaching Award Winners
May 14, 2019
Communications Staff
Six faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music received Excellence in Teaching Awards for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Q&A with Phyllis Gorfain, Emerita Professor of English and Ohio Arts Council Award Recipient
February 20, 2019
Communications Staff
Emerita Professor Phyllis Gorfain, founder and artistic director of Oberlin Drama at Grafton, received the 2019 Governor’s Award for Arts Administration from the Ohio Arts Council.
Emeritus Professor Jim Helm Dies
October 31, 2018
Communications Staff
The emeritus professor of classics passed away on Monday, October 29, 2018.
Emerita Professor Adrienne Lash Jones Dies
September 4, 2018
Communications Staff
The emerita professor of African American studies passed away on Tuesday, August 28, 2018. She was 83 years old.
2015-2016 Excellence in Teaching Award Winners
March 8, 2017
Communications Staff
Six faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music received an Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Ann Cooper Albright Book Translation
October 25, 2016
Communications Staff
Professor of Dance Ann Cooper Albright holds a copy of her first book, Choreographing Difference, which has just been translated into Greek by Nissos Press. Here, she attends a press event...
Jamey Haddad and "Under One Sun"
September 8, 2016
Communications Staff
Professor of Advanced Improvisation and Percussion Jamey Haddad performed with “Under One Sun,” an eclectic group of jazz musicians representing five different countries and five...
David Orr to Receive Green Energy Ohio Lifetime Achievement Award
March 29, 2016
Communications Staff
Green Energy Ohio will present David Orr with a lifetime achievement award recognizing his contributions to promoting green energy policy.
2014-2015 Excellence in Teaching Awards Winners
February 19, 2016
Communications Staff
Six faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music received the Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2014-2015 academic year. The recipients were Associate Professor of Mathematics Jack Calcut; Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber; Professor of Piano James Howsmon; Director of the Division of Conducting and Ensembles, Associate Professor of Conducting, and Director of the Oberlin Orchestra Raphael Jiménez; Professor of Comparative American Studies Gina Pérez; and Associate Professor of Jazz Studies Daniel Wall.
