Associate Professor of Art History, Fabiola Lopez Duran and PhD student, Lynne Lee were recognized at the 2026 Center for Teaching Excellence Award Ceremony. Every year the CTE recognizes graduate students and faculty for their outstanding teaching during the academic year.
This year, Professor Fabiola Lopez Duran received the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. According to the CTE, "The George R. Brown Teaching Awards honors outstanding faculty as determined by the votes of alumni. All current faculty members are eligible except immediate past winners and lifetime honorary recipients. Alumni are asked to rank in order their top five faculty and only their top five faculty. The Committee on Teaching reviews the data and determines nine superior winners and one excellence winner". Professor Duran's is the Associate Director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies and her research and teaching focuses on the history and theory of modern and contemporary European and Latin American art and architecture.
With this being her last year as a PhD Candidate, we are so proud to share that Lynne Lee received the Graduate Teaching Award for Independent Instruction for her impactful undergraduate teaching. With her completed dissertation, "Black Art in White Narratives: The Medical Origins of Afro-Brazilian Art History", Lynne plans on remaining at Rice as a teaching fellow in the Program in Writing and Communication.