Sheedy Teaching Award
The Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award is presented annually to an outstanding teacher in the College of Arts and Letters.
The Sheedy Award was founded in 1970 in honor of Rev. Charles E. Sheedy, C.S.C., who served as dean of the College from 1951–69, and acknowledges a faculty member who has sustained excellence in research and instruction over a wide range of courses. This individual must also motivate and enrich students using innovative and creative teaching methods and influence teaching and learning within the department, College, and University.
2020 Award Recipient
Professor Pamela Wojcik

Pamela Wojcik is a professor and chair of the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre and a concurrent professor in the Department of American Studies and the Gender Studies Program.
She joined the Arts & Letters faculty in 1998 and focuses her research on American film, with particular emphasis on issues of space, gender, performance, and genre. She teaches both introductory and advanced film courses on a variety of topics — including the history of the movie musical, the career and image of Frank Sinatra, and the construction of masculinity in American film.
A past president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Wojcik also won a Guggenheim fellowship in 2020 for her current book project, Unhomed: Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema. That project explores America’s ambivalent and shifting attitude toward placelessness through marginalized figures — including tramps, hitchhikers, the homeless, and contemporary youth.
She will accept the award during a virtual ceremony on Tuesday, November 17.
Previous Award Recipients
Year | Recipient | Media | Department |
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2020 | Pamela Wojcik | Video, News story | Film, Television, and Theatre |
2019 | Jason Ruiz | Video, Speech, News story | American Studies |
2018 | Ernesto Verdeja | Video, Speech, News story | Political Science |
2017 | Jessica Collett | Video, Speech, News story | Sociology |
2016 | Marisel Moreno | Video, Speech, News story | Romance Languages and Literatures |
2015 | Robert Sedlack | Video, News story | Art, Art History, and Design |
2014 | John Sitter | Video, Speech, News story | English |
2013 | Julia Douthwaite | Video, News story | Romance Languages and Literatures |
2012 | Peter Holland | Video, Speech | Film, Television, and Theatre |
2011 | Thomas F.X. Noble | Speech | History |
2010 | James Collins | Speech | Film, Television, and Theatre |
2009 | Richard Pierce | Speech | Africana Studies |
2008 | James McKenna | Speech | Anthropology |
2007 | Daniel Myers | Speech | Sociology |
2006 | Christian Moevs | Speech | Romance Languages and Literatures |
2005 | Gail Bederman (co-recipient) | Speech | History |
2005 | William Ramsey (co-recipient) | Speech | Philosophy |
2004 | William H. Leahy (co-recipient) | Speech | Economics and Policy Studies |
2004 | A. Peter Walshe (co-recipient) | Speech | Political Science |
2003 | Valerie Sayers | Speech | English |
2002 | Andrew Weigert | Student reflections: Christopher Broughton, Eugene Kang, and Sarah MacMillen | Sociology |
2001 | Stephen M. Fallon (co-recipient) | Speech | Program of Liberal Studies |
2001 | Wilson “Bill” Miscamble, C.S.C. (co-recipient) | Speech | History |
2000 | Reginald F. Bain | Speech | Film, Television, and Theatre |
1999 | Douglas Kinsey | Speech | Art, Art History, and Design |
1998 | Erskine Peters | English | |
1997 | Frederick J. Crosson | Program of Liberal Studies | |
1996 | Catherine LaCugna | Theology | |
1995 | A. James McAdams | Government and Int’l Relations | |
1994 | Rev. Robert Kerby | History | |
1993 | Jeanne Day (co-recipient) | Psychology | |
1993 | Timothy Scully (co-recipient) | Government and Int’l Relations | |
1992 | Thomas Swartz | Economics | |
1991 | William Krier | English | |
1990 | Sonia G. Gernes | English | |
1989 | Richard F. Foley | Philosophy | |
1988 | Rev. George Minamiki, S.J. | Modern & Classical Languages | |
1987 | Cornelius Delaney | Philosophy | |
1986 | James O. Bellis | Anthropology | |
1985 | M. Katherine Tillman | Program of Liberal Studies | |
1984 | Frank Bonello | Economics | |
1983 | John Roos | Government and Int’l Relations | |
1983 | Paul Rathburn | English | |
1982 | Sheilah Brennan | Philosophy | |
1981 | Thomas Werge | English | |
1980 | Donald Sniegowski | English | |
1979 | Rev. Thomas Blantz, C.S.C. | History | |
1978 | Rev. John Dunne, C.S.C. | Theology | |
1977 | Edward Cronin | Program of Liberal Studies | |
1976 | Ernest Sandeen | English | |
1975 | Matthew Fitzsimons | History | |
1974 | Michael Loux | Philosophy | |
1973 | Robert Vacca | Modern & Classical Languages | |
1972 | William Storey | Theology | |
1971 | Frank O’Malley | English | |
1970 | Joseph Evans | Philosophy |