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Christopher Oldstone-Moore
Outstanding Lecturer Award and Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence: Outstanding Lecturer
Recognition Year:
2016
Christopher Oldstone-Moore’s teaching, scholarship, and service have provided exceptional contributions to his department, college, and university. His teaching is exemplary in both breadth and depth, and he is committed to classroom strategies that keep students engaged and active. He has developed online courses and helped reconfigure HST 1200 to focus on primary documents and student discussion. He incorporates student writing into his courses, generating assignments that provoke critical thinking, and he offers advanced courses in several essential areas. Students respond well to his appealing and ever-changing teaching style, and he has won several teaching awards.
Dr. Oldstone-Moore is also a prolific scholar. His recent book, Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair, has resulted in extensive media exposure and national recognition. Beards is his second book, and he has also published articles in significant historical journals. Dr. Oldstone-Moore serves on departmental committees, directed the history graduate program, and was recently a CELIA fellow, participating in an interdisciplinary project commemorating the centennial of World War I. The program he produced on popular music during the war was a highlight of the year.
