ARHU Faculty Win 2025 Provost's Excellence Awards for Professional Track Faculty
May 02, 2025
They are honored for their exceptional teaching and service.
By ARHU Staff
Four faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) have been named recipients of the 2025 Provost's Excellence Awards for Professional Track Faculty (PTK).
Established in 2015, the PTK Excellence Awards recognize professional track faculty for consistently outstanding contributions in teaching, research and service. Each award includes a $1,000 stipend and campuswide recognition from the Office of the Provost.
ARHU’s 2025 Awardees:
Gregory Bucher
Principal Lecturer, Department of Classics – Excellence in Teaching
Bucher is recognized for his exceptional teaching and dedication to student success. His enthusiastic and engaging style, rigorous curriculum and passion for the subject have earned him exceptional course evaluations and recognition as a model of teaching excellence. Bucher’s teaching reflects his research interests in Roman historiography and art history.
Robert Chiles
Senior Lecturer, Department of History – Excellence in Teaching
Chiles is celebrated for his dynamic teaching and ability to bring history to life for students. He has taught more than 8,000 students in courses ranging from U.S. political history to immigration and ethnicity, earning acclaim for his analytical rigor and creativity in course design. Chiles’s teaching reflects his holistic scholarly focus on American society and politics from the Gilded Age to World War II. He received the 2023 Donna B. Hamilton Award for Teaching Excellence.
Sarah Dammeyer
Senior Lecturer, Department of English – Excellence in Service
Dammeyer is honored for her outstanding service as a faculty fellow for the Professional Writing Program, a role in which she supports and mentors instructors, advances curriculum and pedagogy, fosters faculty community and development, and leads collaborative initiatives to enhance teaching, research and retention. Notably, she co-developed the Disability Resource and Technology Hub in the Department of English last year, which supports instructors of writing-intensive courses and promotes effective strategies for student learning.
Regina Haag
Associate Clinical Professor and Undergraduate Advisor, German Studies – Excellence in Service
Haag is recognized for her exemplary service to students, colleagues and the broader university community. She played a key role in designing the Engineering and German Program, a flexible dual-degree track that has driven enrollment growth and strengthened interdisciplinary collaboration between the A. James Clark School of Engineering and the Department of German Studies. Haag is recognized for her dedicated mentorship and innovative instruction.