It is my great pleasure to announce the recipient of the 2017-2018 Siegel Teaching Prize: Clare Kim. This award was established in 2006 by STS, with generous support from the Siegel Family, to recognize HASTS graduate students who excel in their work as teaching assistants. This year’s Siegel Teaching Prize honors Clare for her stellar performance as TA on Professor Craig Wilder’s class, 21H.S01, "MIT and Slavery” in Spring 2018. The prize committee, John Durant and Robin Scheffler, prepared the following prize citation:
"Clare was the founding TA for the new “MIT & Slavery” project (she TA’d the course twice, in Fall 2017 and spring 2018). This was an exceptional course in many ways, not least because it was organized at the behest of President Reif and, in the words of Professor Wilder, “it began without a set syllabus or even a week-to-week outline.” Clare rose to the challenge admirably, becoming a co-designer of the curriculum and the week-to-week program. As one student wrote, "Clare was more than just a TA in the course - her input was integral to its design and execution. The readings she assigned each week helped frame our discussions and give us historiographical context. She asked us tough questions and forced us to think deeply about our answers. It is hard to describe how important recitations (and Clare's input during the main weekly meeting with the professors) were to the course; I have no doubt that even with star professor Craig Wilder and the fantastic archivist Nora Murphy, the class would not have been remotely as successful as it was without Clare." According to Professor Wilder, Clare was "the perfect partner to have in this transformative initiative.” Certainly, the students on the class agreed with this assessment, awarding Clare perfect 7.0 ratings across the board. For all of these reasons, and because her work on Professor Wilder’s course was a capstone to a highly successful TA career at MIT, we have no hesitation in awarding Clare Kim the 2018 Siegel Teaching Prize." Please join me in congratulating Clare for this much-deserved honor. I am also grateful to John and Robin for serving on the prize committee. Jen Jennifer S. Light Department Head, Program in Science, Technology and Society Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology Professor of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave., E51-173 Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 452-2390 http://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/jennifer-s-light/
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