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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.

2017 Award Recipient

Associate Professor Jessica Collett

Department of Sociology

A social psychologist, Collett studies small group processes, identity, and the relationship between the two. She uses diverse methodological approaches, employing social psychological concepts and theories in the study of family, religion, work, and education. Collett is a co-author of a leading textbook in her field, Social Psychology, and her research has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Science Research, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, among others.

She is currently examining graduate student professionalization, the sociological sources and implications of imposter syndrome, and the effects of changing conceptions of fatherhood.

Collect holds a concurrent appointment in the Gender Studies Program. She is also a faculty fellow in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and a faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, the Environmental Change Initiative, the GLOBES graduate training program in environment and society, and the poverty studies interdisciplinary minor.

Collett was honored at a faculty reception on December 5, 2017, in the McKenna Hall Auditorium at the Notre Dame Conference Center. 

Previous Award Recipients