honors and awards

Alisa Freedman, professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been named a 2026 Williams Fellow by the UO Office of the Provost. This prestigious award recognizes innovative teachers who have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to undergraduate education by challenging their students academically, creating an engaged and inclusive learning environment, striving to improve the learning process, and fostering collaboration within or beyond their departments. 

Editor's note: Tykeson Teaching Award winner Lynn Fujiwara is a CSWS Advisory Board member, faculty affiliate, and co-convenor of the Women of Color Project. The Tykeson Teaching Award is an annual prize given to one outstanding faculty member in each division of the College of Arts and Sciences who goes above and beyond in the classroom. Story from Around the O.

Providing individual feedback to each student ended up being the best way for Lynn Fujiwara, associate professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, to learn how to connect with students.

Congratulations to CSWS faculty affiliates who received 2023-24 awards and opportunities from the Office of the Provost!

Williams Instructional Grants were awarded to Assistant Professor Abigail Fine, Musicology, for “Writing Musically,” and to Assistant Professor Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive, Architecture, for “Hostile Design in Eugene.”

An award for Distinguished Teaching Professor went to Senior Instructor II Julie Voelker-Morris, Career Services Director for the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management.