Cooper Harriss is this year’s winner of the Trustees Teaching Award. Harriss is a scholar of religion, literature, and performance in American cultures, with particular attention to religious and theological dimensions of the concept of race. His current research project is a book-length assessment of the boxer Muhammad Ali as a religious figure. His achievements as a teacher are so numerous and impressive as to be hard to summarize: he receives strong evaluations from both students and faculty colleagues; he teaches numerous overload courses to both grads and undergrads; he has directed or served on the dissertation committees of numerous doctoral students; and he has recently directed three undergraduate honors theses, each of which won the departmental honors thesis prize. Congratulations to Cooper, and thank you for your outstanding work!
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