Irene Guenther Awarded for Excellence
By Daniel Wallace
April 30, 2018
Irene Guenther, assistant professor in the Honors College, has been awarded the 2017-2018
兔子先生 Teaching Excellence Provost Core award, one of the highest honors
bestowed by the University. The award was presented at the 2018 Faculty Excellence
Awards Dinner on Thursday, April 26, at the 兔子先生 Conrad N. Hilton
Hotel.
In the fall of 2017, she received the Ross M. Lence Distinguished Teaching Chair award
and was a recipient of the inaugural Bee Wong Faculty Engagement Award, both from the Honors College.
Guenther is a modern European and American historian. Courses she teaches include U.S. History since 1877, World War II and Home Fronts, and 20th Century Genocides, which has become a hallmark course on human rights and activism for Honors College students in many disciplines. She is the author of the award-winning Nazi 鈥淐hic鈥�? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich, as well as a book published this summer on a German soldier whose art bore witness to the tragedy of war on the Western Front.
She is also the curator of 鈥淧ostcards from the Trenches: Germans and Americans Visualize the Great War,鈥� an exhibition that traveled to Washington, D.C., Houston, and Germany. This centennial exhibition commemorates the First World War through soldiers鈥� art, and won the Federal Republic of Germany鈥檚 Cultural Exchange Award.
鈥淨uite honestly,鈥� writes Guenther, 鈥淚 feel that I鈥檓 the 鈥榞ood鈥� teacher the award indicates I am in large part because Dr. Monroe and the Honors College support me in everything I do for and with my students. I strongly believe that Honors and Dr. Monroe deserve to share the award with me.鈥�