Dr. Stanley “Chip” Blake, associate professor of History received one of the top teaching awards given to professors teaching in the humanities at The Ohio State University at the start of his History of Brazil class today at Ohio State Lima.
Dr. Nathan Rosenstein, professor of history and the interim chair of the department, traveled to the Ohio State Lima campus to present Blake with the 2015 Paul W. Brown Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching in the Departments of English and History.
Winners of the Paul W. Brown Award have displayed a sustained record of outstanding teaching in a range of undergraduate courses, with an emphasis placed on outstanding performance in the classroom. Nominations come from students, colleagues and alumni.
It is clear in his nomination materials that Blake is well suited to working closely with students and helping them develop the skills to critically evaluate the world around them. In his nomination letter, his colleagues noted, “Because so many of his students are taking these courses for GE credit and often have little knowledge of the world outside of the United States, Professor Blake works hard to make the subject matter both intellectually compelling and relevant to students’ lives.”
Blake joined the department of history in 2004 as an assistant professor. He has taught previously at the University of Chicago, the University of New England, Bowdoin College, and Colby College. He received his PhD in history from the State University of New York in 2001 and specializes in modern Brazilian and Latin American history. Blake’s research interests include race and national identity in Latin America, Latin American social and political history, and the history of medicine and public health in the Americas. Blake teaches courses on world history, colonial and modern Latin America, the history of Brazil, the history of Mexico, US-Latin American relations, and the social history of medicine.
As part of the award, Blake will receive a $1,200 stipend.
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