Jessica Melton Perry Award for Distinguished Teaching in Disciplinary and Professional Writing

This award recognizes teaching that has contributed to the development of student writing within academic and professional fields across the university (other than English). Nominees can be tenure-track or non-tenure track regular faculty currently employed in any school or college at Case Western Reserve. This award is designed to recognize instructors who have helped their students publish academic/scholarly work, instructors/mentors of graduate/professional students, and/or instructors of UGER Disciplinary Writing courses and Senior Capstones (where discipline-specific writing is taught). For more information, please email writing@case.edu.

Award Recipients

2024 
  • Elina Gertsman, PhD
    Distinguished University Professor, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Art History, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Suet Kam Lam, MS, MPH, M.D.
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
2022 
  • Jennifer Carter, PhD
    Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Case School of Engineering
2021 
  • Ralph Harvey, PhD
    Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences
2020 
  • Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM, SJD
    Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Jurisprudence, School of Law
2019 
  • Frank Ernst, PhD
    Leonard Case Jr. Professor of Engineering & Chair of Materials Science & Engineer, College of Engineering
  • Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD
    Theodore J. Castele Professor of History, College of Arts and Sciences
2018 
  • Wanda Strychalski, PhD 
    Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences
2017 
  • Vanessa Hildebrand, PhD 
    Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
2016 
  • Georgia Cowart, PhD
    Professor of Music, College of Arts and Sciences
2015 
  • Ricardo Apostol, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Classics, College of Arts and Sciences
2014 
  • Helen Salz, PhD
    Professor of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine
2013 
  • Eileen Anderson-Fye, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
2012 
  • Jeffrey Capadona, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering
2010 
  • Renee M. Sentilles, PhD
    Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences
2009 
  • Elizabeth G. Damato, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC
    Associate Professor, Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing