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

YearRecipient
2025Deborah Yashar
2024Mark Beissinger
2023James Raymond Vreeland
2022Melissa Lane
2021Marc Ratkovic
2020Atul Kohli
2019Omar Wasow
2018Rory Truex
2017Keith Whittington
2016Kristopher Ramsay
2015Tali Mendelberg
2014Paul Frymer
2013Kosuke Imai
2012Rahul Sagar
2011Andrew Moravcsik
2010Stephen Macedo
2009Joshua Clinton
2008Joanne Gowa
2007Jason Lyall
2006Charles Beitz
2005Paul Sigmund
2004Jameson Doig
2003Gary Bass
2002George Kateb
2001Karen Stenner
2000Robert George
1999Gerald Garvey
1998Nancy Bermeo