The Stanley Kelley Award for Excellence in Teaching has been given every year since 1998 to a member of the politics faculty to recognize outstanding teaching. Kelley, who joined the Politics faculty in 1957 and taught at the University for nearly 40 years, was known as a skilled and dedicated teacher who received the President’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1995. 

Recipients of the Stanley Kelley Award

Year Recipient
2024 Mark Beissinger
2023 James Raymond Vreeland
2022 Melissa Lane
2021 Marc Ratkovic
2020 Atul Kohli
2019 Omar Wasow
2018 Rory Truex
2017

Keith Whittington

2016 Kristopher Ramsay
2015

Tali Mendelberg

2014 Paul Frymer
2013 Kosuke Imai
2012

Rahul Sagar

2011

Andrew Moravcsik

2010 Stephen Macedo
2009 Joshua Clinton
2008

Joanne Gowa

2007 Jason Lyall
2006 Charles Beitz
2005 Paul Sigmund
2004

Jameson Doig

2003 Gary Bass
2002

George Kateb

2001 Karen Stenner
2000 Robert George
1999 Gerald Garvey
1998 Nancy Bermeo