Twenty-one Arts and Sciences professors were honored with 2025 Dean of Faculty Awards for their exceptional achievements in teaching, mentoring, research, and service to Dartmouth at a reception hosted by the Office of the Dean of Faculty on Nov. 12.
“These awards celebrate the heart of what makes Dartmouth exceptional—faculty who are deeply committed to their students, their scholarship, and this community,” says Interim Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean John Carey. “From innovative teaching and transformative mentorship to pioneering research and devoted service, their contributions strengthen our entire campus. I’m honored to recognize their achievements.”
The following awards were presented.
Ralph J. and Sheila Q. Maffei Faculty Fellowship Awards
Awarded to newly tenured and promoted faculty who have demonstrated excellence in their teaching and scholarship
Mia Costa, Associate Professor of Government
Costa researches political representation, identity, and public opinion in American politics. Her work highlights the role of identity and communication in democratic responsiveness and polarization, and her book, How Politicians Polarize, examines how elected officials shape public attitudes. She has published in top political science journals and teaches in the Program in Quantitative Social Science.
Rachel Feldman, Associate Professor of Religion
Feldman is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in Judaism, messianic movements, transnational religion, Israel/Palestine, and gender studies. Her book Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age won the AJS Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award and the American Academy of Religion’s 2025 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion. Her research has been supported by the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Udi Greenberg, Professor of History
Greenberg studies modern European intellectual history, with a focus on religion, politics, and decolonization. He is the author of The Weimar Century and The End of the Schism, and co-editor of Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity. His work appears in both academic journals and public outlets, offering insights into the global legacies of European thought and empire.
Golnar Nikpour, Associate Professor of History
Nikpour is a scholar of modern Iranian political and intellectual history, with a particular interest in the history of law, incarceration, revolution, and rights. Her book The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran explores the evolution of Iran’s criminal legal system. She serves on editorial boards including Radical History Review and B|ta’arof, a journal of Iranian arts and writing.
James Wright Sustaining Faculty Excellence Awards
Awarded to newly tenured and promoted faculty who have made significant contributions as teacher scholars
Desirée Garcia, Professor of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies
Garcia studies musical film, race, and migration in American culture. Her work blends film studies, ethnic studies, and performance, offering new insights into how music and movement shape identity and cultural memory. Her books include The Dressing Room, The Movie Musical, and The Migration of Musical Film, and she has produced documentaries for PBS’s American Experience.
Patrick Glauthier, Associate Professor of Classics
Glauthier focuses on Latin literature of the late Republic and early Empire, with interests in ancient science, the sublime, and Roman fiction. His book The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome explores how Roman authors used literary techniques to convey awe and wonder. His teaching spans Latin language and literature, ancient medicine, and the cultural history of science in antiquity.
Katherine Nautiyal, Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Nautiyal is a behavioral neuroscientist whose research focuses on the role of serotonin in a variety of neural mechanisms and animal behaviors. She leads the Nautiyal Lab, where she and her students study how serotonin modulates the neural circuits underlying impulsive and aggressive behavior. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the Neukom Institute.
Jorge Quintana Navarrete, Associate Professor of Spanish
Quintana Navarrete explores 19th- and 20th-century Mexican literature and culture through the lenses of utopian studies, environmental humanities, and science and technology studies. His book Biocosmism examines the utopian imagination in postrevolutionary Mexico. A Mellon New Directions Fellow, his current project investigates the intersections of geology, indigeneity, and nation building in 19th-century Mexico.
John Manley Huntington Award for Newly Tenured Faculty
Awarded to a recently tenured faculty member who has an outstanding record of teaching and research
Richard Beaudoin, Associate Professor of Music
Beaudoin is an acclaimed composer and music theorist, whose compositions have been performed internationally. His book Sounds as They Are investigates the expressive rhythm of sounds made by the performer’s body, their instrument, and the recording medium itself. In 2024, he received Dartmouth’s Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Robert Hill, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Hill is a leader in the field of myelin biology and has developed new methods for characterizing the structures and mechanisms associated with the growth, organization, and death of myelin. His research has implications for understanding neurodevelopmental disorders and diseases such as multiple sclerosis. He helped create Dartmouth’s Integrative Neuroscience Program, received a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award, and leads the Hill Lab.
John Manley Huntington Award for Newly Promoted Faculty
Awarded to a faculty member recently promoted to full professor who has outstanding teaching and research records
Erich Osterberg, Professor of Earth Sciences
Osterberg investigates how Earth’s climate system and glaciers responded to natural climate changes in the past, and how they respond to human-caused climate change today. His research spans Greenland, Antarctica, and the U.S., focusing on extreme weather, jet stream dynamics, and climate change resilience. He collaborates with local partners to advance strategies for climate change resilience.
The Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching
Awarded to a faculty member for outstanding teaching
Zaneta Thayer, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Thayer is a biological anthropologist whose research explores how early life environments shape human biology and health. Her work focuses on racialized health inequities, developmental plasticity, and maternal well-being. She integrates evolutionary theory with public health to examine the embodied effects of structural inequality, and her research has been published in leading journals across anthropology, medicine, and biology.
The Dean of the Faculty Teaching Award
Awarded to a non-tenure-line faculty in recognition of outstanding contributions to Dartmouth and career distinction
Wendy Epps, Senior Lecturer of Chemistry
Epps specializes in bio-organic chemistry, with research on fluorescent peptides that detect neuronal proteins. She brings a strong commitment to undergraduate education and mentorship, drawing on her postdoctoral work at Boston University. Her teaching emphasizes hands-on learning and interdisciplinary connections, helping students explore the role of chemistry in neuroscience, medicine, and beyond.
Francine A’ness, Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies, and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies
A’ness specializes in intercultural communication, Latin American and Latino theater, and international education. Her work explores theater for social change and embodied pedagogy. She teaches in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, and serves as associate director for Global Teaching and Learning at the Guarini Institute, where she supports study abroad pedagogy and faculty development.
The Robert A. Fish 1918 Memorial Prize
Awarded to a newly retired faculty member to commemorate a career of contributions to undergraduate teaching at Dartmouth
Michael Mastanduno, Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor Emeritus of Government
Mastanduno is a scholar of international relations, U.S. foreign policy, and global political economy. His work explores U.S. hegemony, unipolarity, and relations with China and Japan. He has authored and edited numerous influential books and served in policy roles, including with the U.S. Trade Representative. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Elizabeth Howland Hand–Otis Norton Pierce Award
Awarded to a member of the faculty who, in the opinion of the trustees, is an outstanding teacher of undergraduates
Francis Magilligan, Professor Emeritus of Geography
Magilligan studies fluvial geomorphology and the hydrological impacts of environmental change. His research spans dam removal, flood recovery, and river restoration, with fieldwork from Vermont to Peru. A Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Melvin G. Marcus Distinguished Career Award, he is also recognized for his mentorship and contributions to environmental policy.
The Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement
Awarded to a newly tenured faculty member with outstanding scholarship
Soroush Vosoughi, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Vosoughi researches at the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning, and cognitive modeling. He works across disciplines, applying generative AI methods to problems in social science and biomedicine. He leads the Minds, Machine, and Society group and collaborates across disciplines to apply AI to health, bioinformatics, and social systems. His research has earned awards from Google, Amazon, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
The Frank J. Guarini Award for Extraordinary Contribution to Off-Campus Program
Awarded to a faculty member who has made significant efforts to advance the mission of Dartmouth's international and domestic off-campus study programs for undergraduates
Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Professor of Engineering
Bonfert-Taylor researches complex analysis, geometric function theory, and engineering education. Her work focuses on student-centered learning and broadening participation in STEM. She has developed award-winning online courses and co-leads initiatives supporting underrepresented students. A fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics, she is also recognized for her leadership in diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering education.
Petra McGillen, Associate Professor of German Studies
McGillen researches the material history of creativity and media in 18th- and 19th-century Germany. Her book The Fontane Workshop explores literary production in the industrial print age. Her current project investigates the origins of fake news in modern journalism. She teaches courses on media history, print culture, and German literature.
The Dean of the Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentoring and Advising
Awarded to a faculty member in recognition of outstanding contributions to Dartmouth and career distinction
Andrew Campbell, Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Science
Campbell researches mobile sensing and mental health, focusing on how AI and behavioral data from smartphones and wearables can support personalized interventions. He co-directs Dartmouth’s HealthX Lab and is part of the NSF-funded ARIA AI institute. His StudentLife study earned the ACM UbiComp 10-Year Impact Award and the SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award.
Dean of the Faculty Award for Exceptional Service
Honors exceptional service that is distinguished by achievements of unique significance to Dartmouth by an Arts and Sciences faculty member
Alan Gustman, Loren M. Berry Professor Emeritus of Economics
Gustman is a leading economist of aging, retirement, and Social Security. A co-investigator of the Health and Retirement Study, he has shaped national understanding of pension systems and labor force participation. His research, widely cited in policy and academic circles, combines rigorous econometric analysis with a deep commitment to public policy relevance.