Leavitt and Hallstein Awarded for Outstanding Work
Last Friday, CGS announced the recipients of this year’s annual faculty awards: Neal Leavitt and Lynn Hallstein.
Leavitt was honored with the Dr. Ismail Sensel Award, which funded by the Estate of Dr. Ismael Sensel and is traditionally given to a faculty member who has had a particularly outstanding year in terms of publication and teaching.
Leavitt published a book last year, The Foreign Policy of John Rawls and Amartya Sen, that applies the philosophies of Rawls and Sen to current pressing global issues involving human rights, health care, and nuclear proliferation. A recent review declares that the book offers “valuable insights into how the ideas of Rawls and Sen might make the foreign policy of democratic regimes ‘a little better.’” In addition to his book publication, Leavitt had another highly successful year as a professor, earning outstanding teaching evaluations and a Metcalf nomination from a former student. His students appreciate the clarity of his lectures, his ability to connect philosophy to contemporary issues, and the productive atmosphere he creates in the classroom.
Hallstein received the Peyton Richter Award, funded by alumnus Gary Kraut in honor of a long-serving CGS Humanities professor, Peyton Richter. Each year, the award goes to a professor who has demonstrated outstanding interdisciplinary teaching.
Hallstein’s students not only like her, they also learn from her. Students give praise Hallstein teaching them how to think more critically than they ever have before, and for strengthening their writing skills: “I have become not only a better writer, but also a better thinker. My vocabulary has improved in daily conversations and I find myself making connections between more and more things . . .” In addition to her success in the classroom, Hallstein has three books published and is working on her fourth, Bikini Ready Moms: Contemporary Motherhood, Celebrity Mom Profiles, and the Maternal Body.