2008 Woodie Awards
Clinefelter wins highest faculty honor
Stephanie South
Issue date: 5/10/08 Section: News
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The annual award recognizes a faculty member with a distinguished career in teaching, professional experience and service.
"This is the award for faculty," Clinefelter said. "I know there are dozens of other faculty that are just as deserving as I am, which makes it even more flattering.
Clinefelter has been at UNC for 13 years and said she has come to love the campus because of the emphasis it places on the craft of teaching.
Clinefelter has been involved at UNC since her second year here. She has served on Faculty Senate as the secretary, vice-chair and chair. She is currently the faculty trustee on UNC's governing body, the Board of Trustees.
Clinefelter specializes in European history and has already published a book about Nazi Germany, "Artists for the Reich: Culture and Race from Weimar to Nazi Germany."
She has recently been awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The $6,000 award will fund Clinefelter's research in Lexington, Va. and Washington, D.C. for what will eventually be a second book.
The grant is very competitive and less than 80 grants were awarded across the country.
Rebekah Jones, a senior history and German major, said Clinefelter is a good teacher because she is concerned with more than class content. She cares about her students' experiences with history.
"She integrates the interests and questions of students into class material," Jones said.
Jones said she recommends Clinefelter and her courses to all students who want to be engaged in the classroom and experience a teacher who is truly dedicated to learning.
"Honestly, I cannot praise her enough," Jones said. "She is largely responsible for my positive experience at UNC, and I cannot think of anyone more deserving than this high honor."
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