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 1952–68, 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.

2021 Award Recipient
Professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Kathleen Sprows Cummings is the Rev. John A. O’Brien Collegiate Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Notre Dame, where she also serves as the William W. and Anna Jean Cushwa Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. She holds concurrent appointments in Gender Studies and the Department of Theology, and she is also a faculty affiliate in the Center for Italian Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.
Her teaching and research interests center on the history of Catholicism in the United States, the study of American women, and the relationship between religion and American society.
She accepted the award during a ceremony on Tuesday, Dec. 7 at 3:30 p.m. in the Morris Inn's Smith Ballroom.
Previous Award Recipients
Year | Recipient | Media | Department |
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2021 | Kathleen Sprows Cummings | Video, Speech, News story | American Studies and History |
2020 | Pamela Wojcik | Video, Speech, 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 | Art, Art History, and Design |
2014 | John Sitter | Video, Speech | English |
2013 | Julia Douthwaite | Video | 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 |