CHESS Recipients of the UNC Charlotte Award for Teaching Excellence, Teaching-Focused Faculty
The UNC Charlotte Award for Teaching Excellence for teaching-focused faculty began in 2019 and has quickly become one of the most important and prestigious traditions at the University, honoring outstanding non-tenure track teachers.
This is a selected list of recipients and finalists from the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences.
Recipients from CHESS:
2026
Honored as Finalists:
- Sayde Brais, Communication Studies
- Oscar Lansen, History
2025
Winner: Susana Cisneros, Languages, Cultures, and Translation
2023
Honored as Finalist: Hannah Peach, Psychological Science
2022
- Winner: Terry Shirley, Jr., Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences
- Honored as Finalist: Carol Higham, History
2021
Honored as Finalist: Tonya Wertz-Orbaugh, Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
2020
Honored as Finalists:
- Susana Cisneros, Languages, Cultures and Translation
- Kathleen Nicolaides, Criminal Justice and Criminology
2019
Honored as Finalists:
- Oscar Lansen, History
- Terry Shirley, Jr., Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences