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Six headshots of Loyola Chicago's College of Arts and Sciences faculty members.

Faculty Recognition

Highlighting Our Faculty

The College of Arts and Sciences houses a robust faculty with expertise across all of the college's academic departments and interdisciplinary programs. Whether it is innovative teaching in the classroom, groundbreaking research, or exemplary work in the Chicagoland community, we strive to recognize our college faculty for their professional and personal accomplishments.

Faculty member Peter Rosenblatt with a student
“We lift up the Sujack Award recipients each year as exemplars of what takes place every day at Loyola: high-level teaching and high-level scholarship working hand-in-hand to deepen knowledge and transform lives.” Peter J. Schraeder, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Faculty Highlights

Loyola Chicago's College of Arts and Sciences Professor Emerita, Kathleen M. Adams

Kathleen M. Adams

Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology

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Loyola Chicago's College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies, Jenn Finn

Jennifer Finn

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Classical Studies

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Loyola Chicago's College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor, Yas Silva

Yas Silva

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

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Faculty Accomplishments

Loyola Chicago's College of Arts and Sciences David Olson

David Olson

Appointed Board Chair of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority

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Loyola Chicago's College of Arts and Sciences Alice Weinreb & Olivia Wolf Headshots side by side.

Alice Weinreb and Olivia Wolf

Two CAS Faculty Awarded NEH Fellowships

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Loyola Chicago's College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Walter Tangarife headshot.

Walter Tangarife

Shedding Light on Dark Matter

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Sujack Awards

Edwin T. and Vivijeanne F. Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence award winners from Loyola's College of Arts and Sciences.

The Edwin T. and Vivijeanne F. Sujack Awards

The Sujack Teaching Awards were established in 1994 by Edwin T. and Vivijeanne F. Sujack in order to take special notice each year of two outstanding teachers in the College of Arts and Sciences. These awards recognize the superb teaching of undergraduate students. In addition the recognition, each faculty member’s home department receives a cash award to be used in support of activities that will enhance teaching at the department level. Recipients of the Award have in common a dynamic presence in the classroom, a willingness to try new ways of teaching and a devotion to students that goes beyond the ordinary classroom experience. These faculty members embody the Jesuit ideal of higher education in their dedication to high standards, to critical thinking, and to the principle that knowledge must be put to the benefit of humanity.

Sujack Awards 2024 Recipients

Faculty Research Excellence Award

  • Alexandru Grigorescu, Professor, Political Science
  • Don Stemen, Professor, Criminal Justice and Criminology

Master Researchers

  • Emily Cain, Associate Professor, Theology
  • Perla Gámez, Associate Professor, Psychology
  • Nan Miles Xi, Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
  • Weiming Yu, Associate Professor, Biology

Master Teachers

  • Catherine Nichols, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology
  • Jennifer Parks, Professor, Philosophy
  • Polina Pine, Senior Lecturer, Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Sherrie Weller, Senior Lecturer, English

Teaching Excellence Award

  • Haysun Kang, Associate Professor, Fine and Performing Arts
  • Michael Schumacher, Lecturer, Criminal Justice and Criminology

Sujack Ceremony Program