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Emory Williams Awards recognize outstanding undergraduate teaching
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The Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award is presented to faculty members from each of Emory’s four undergraduate schools during Commencement every year.

The award was established by Emory Williams, a 1932 Emory College alumnus and longtime trustee, to recognize a record of excellence in undergraduate teaching. 

Emory College of Arts and Sciences selects three award recipients, drawn from the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Each of the other undergraduate schools — Goizueta Business School, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and Oxford College — selects one award recipient. 

The 2024 honorees are: 

  • Richard Berlin, associate professor in the practice of organization and management, Goizueta Business School
  • Christopher Eagle, associate teaching professor in the Center for the Study of Human Health, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
  • Sarah Fankhauser, associate professor of biology, Oxford College
  • Gillian Hue, assistant teaching professor, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology program and senior faculty fellow, Center for Ethics, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
  • Brajesh Samarth, teaching professor, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
  • LisaMarie Wands, associate clinical professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

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