College-Wide Recognitions

Despite our comparatively small number of faculty members and Majors, our department has received several College-wide distinctions over the years, which are summarized below in reverse chronological order.

Presidential Excellence Award Winners

Established and maintained by grants from the Baruch College Fund, the Presidential Excellence Awards are given to faculty members to stimulate and reward outstanding achievement and to enhance the College as a center of excellence. The Awards are made by the President, acting on the recommendation of the Awards Committee. The recipient receives an honorarium and a certificate, and the names of all recipients are inscribed on a plaque, which is prominently displayed.

Distinguished Teaching

The Distinguished Teaching Award Full-time Faculty (first awarded in 1979) and The Distinguished Teaching Award Adjunct Faculty (first awarded in 2000) recognize full-time faculty and adjunct faculty whose outstanding pedagogical ability, commitment to teaching, and innovation and effectiveness in teaching are making a positive impact on the quality of instruction and student life at the College.

FACULTY	AWARD	YEAR
Hagop Sarkissian	Full-Time	2022
Henry Shevlin	Adjunct	2017
David Pereplyotchik	Adjunct	2012
Douglas Lackey	Full-Time	2002

Distinguished Scholarship

The Distinguished Scholarship Award (first awarded in 1978) encompasses two categories: Written Scholarship recognizes full-time faculty who have published a book, monograph, article, or series of articles of scholarly distinction in the past three years; Creative Work recognizes faculty who have had a distinguished achievement in the fine or performing arts during the past three years.

Faculty	Year
Eric Mandelbaum	2017
Douglas Lackey	1984

Weissman Excellence Award Winners

The Dean’s Office at the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences is recognizing faculty achievement through a new program starting in 2021-2022: the WSAS Faculty Excellence Awards. These awards mark strength in particular areas that lie at the heart of WSAS’s identity and mission: teaching our students, intellectual and artistic achievement, institutional leadership and service, and the act of mentoring students and/or peers to support their academic and professional advancement.

Excellence Awards -Fulltime Faculty

Faculty	Award	Year
Elizabeth Edenberg	Institutional Leadership	2024
Elizabeth Edenberg	Teaching	2023
Jonathan Gilmore	Scholarship	2023

Excellence Awards -Part-time Faculty

Faculty	Award	Year
Eliana Luxemburg-Peck	Teaching	2024

Abraham J. Briloff Prize in Ethics

The prizes are funded by a gift from alumnus Charles R. Dreifus (’66, MBA ’73) in honor of Abraham J. Briloff, Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Professor of Accountancy Emeritus.

Abraham J. Briloff taught bookkeeping and stenography in high school beginning in the late 1930s, then moved on to teach accounting at Baruch College. By the late 1960s he had become a critic of unethical practice in the accounting profession. He remained affiliated with Baruch through the rest of his life. The Briloff Prize is an award in the spirit of Professor Briloff’s interest in normative ethics.

The prizes are awarded annually to a faculty member who has written an important topical article, essay or book on ethics and to a student or students who have written an outstanding research paper or essay, also as it relates to current events.

Faculty Prize

Winner	Essay Title	Year
Elizabeth Edenberg	“The Problem with Disagreement on Social Media: Moral not Epistemic”	2020
Paul Butterfield	“Focusing on the Gap: A Better Approach to the Morality of Humor”	2019
Hagop Sarkissian	“When you think it’s bad, it’s worse than you think: Psychological bias and the ethics of negative character assessments”	2015
Douglas Lackey	“Four Types of Mass Murderer: Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, and Truman”	2012
Douglas Lackey	“The Bombing Campaign: the USAAF”	2011
Douglas Lackey	“The Good Soldier vs. the Good Cop: Counterterrorism as Police Work.”	2005

Undergraduate Prize

Winner	Essay Title	Year
Loida Stelli Tavera	“Folk Morality and Belief in God”	2022
Shreshth Jain-Hutchison	“Parallel Braids: An examination of Gay Identities”	2021
Cameron Feigenbaum	“The Utilitarian Approach to Self-Driving Cars”	2020

Whiting Teaching Award

From 2002-2013 Baruch College received $150,000 per year from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation to support the research and scholarly writing of excellent teachers among our junior, tenure-track faculty in the Humanities. These funds provided respite from teaching for one year or one semester so that the faculty member could focus on her/his research. The basis for the award was excellence in teaching. For the purpose of these wonderful fellowships, the College defined Humanities broadly.

Recipients were selected by a committee appointed by the Provost. The committee members, which included previous recipients of the Colleges teaching awards, observed a class session taught by each candidate.

After their fellowship period, recipients of Whiting Fellowships submitted reports on research and scholarly work carried out during the award period and publicly presented the results of their research.

Award Winners

Faculty	Year
Hagop Sarkissian	2012-2013
Sandeep Sreekumar	2010-2011
Thomas Teufel	2008-2009

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PHI Core Curriculum (‘Pathways’) Courses

Fall 2026 Upper Level Courses

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New Concentration Areas: i) World Philosophical Traditions and ii) Ethics & the Public Life

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