Congratulations to Cory Brazile who was awarded the 2023 Van Beck Hall Graduate Student Teaching Award.
Cory Brazile has accumulated significant and diverse teaching experience during her time in the graduate program. She twice served as teaching assistant (for Western Civ II and US History from 1865 to the present), once as tutor for the Willis Academic Center for student-athletes, once as grader for History of Sports, and four times as instructor (for History of Sport, 20th Century African American Women’s History, and US History from 1865 to the present). She is a seasoned university teacher and has earned the respect and affection of both students and faculty. Her students emphasize in their student evolauations that they feel Cory really cares about them, as people, as students, and as thinkers. In a comment that is representative, one student wrote that “I could tell she cared about her students and wanted to see us succeed.” Another one added that “I liked the feedback given on response essays, lots of professors just assign a grade with no comments. The feedback lets me know that what I'm writing actually matters and that you truly did read the paper.”
In the words of the award committee: "In all she does as a teacher, Cory centers student needs and perspectives, whether they need a gentle shove to do better, or a sympathetic smile to be less anxious about failure, and it is that flexibility and empathy, combined with a canny pedagogical instinct and faultless professionalism that makes Cory Brazile such a worthy recipient of the Van Beck Hall teaching award."
