Teaching Award

Outstanding Teaching

Professor Constance Furey is the 2009 recipient of the College of Arts Trustees Teaching Award for Excellence in the Department of Religious Studies. Professor Furey is one of the department's most popular and accessible teachers. In the last several years she has taught a wide variety of courses, from the large Introduction to Christianity, to intermediate-level courses on specific topics, to graduate and honors undergraduate seminars. Students in all these courses praise her enthusiasm, knowledge of her field, and willingness to help students. They frequently note how helpful Professor Furey is with papers and other individual projects, and indeed students wait in long lines to see her during her office hours. Over the last two or three academic years, she has served on more than fifteen doctoral dissertation committees in numerous departments. Constance Furey's outstanding mentoring of students, both undergraduate and graduates, makes her particularly deserving of this prestigious award.