Kristin Doran and Maria Letizia Bellocchio have been selected as the College of Humanities 2021 faculty award winners.
Doran, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is the Distinguished Undergraduate Advising/Mentoring Award recipient.
Bellocchio, Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian, is the Distinguished Teaching Award recipient.
Doran is director of the department’s Basic Language Program, which includes about 3,000 undergraduate students per semester, but her dedication is not confined to the classroom, wrote Professors Kátia da Costa Bezerra and Yadira C. Berigan in nominating Doran for the award.
“Kristy’s presence in the department has been profoundly transformative in every single aspect. Her commitment to serving our students and the university/department’s mission has profoundly impacted all of us. Students often express their gratitude and admiration for Kristy, describing her as an amazing, caring, generous, passionate, and an energetic advisor,” they wrote. “Kristy is a kind and understanding individual who knows how to handle high-tension situations. She is a role model for the instructors she supervises and for all of us.”
Since joining the faculty in 2016, Bellocchio has redesigned several courses to multiple online formats to give students flexibility and also organized events for students, restructured and updated the curriculum for others, and designed a new course on Italian Business. She has also organized numerous events for students to augment their classroom education.
“Prof. Bellocchio has more than demonstrated her commitment and sustained efforts so that our students will have a high-quality education in Italian,” wrote Professors Fabian Alfie and Aileen Feng in nominating her for the award. “She has exemplified outstanding teaching since joining the Italian Program and has contributed greatly to the program’s bilingual teaching mission.”