Historian David Pace honored with distinguished teaching award
American Historical Association bestows its highest honor
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- David Pace, associate professor of history at Indiana University Bloomington, received the Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award at the American Historical Association's 119th meeting in Seattle.
The highest honor given for post-secondary teaching, the Asher Award recognizes outstanding teaching and advocacy for teaching using techniques that have made a lasting and substantial difference to students of history. Founded in 1884, the AHA serves as the umbrella organization for historians working in every period and geographical area and is the largest historical society in the United States with 15,000 members.
A member of the IUB History Department since 1971, Pace specializes in modern French intellectual and cultural history and the pedagogy of history. He is a fellow of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the Mack Center for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He won the Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award in Recognition of Distinguished Teaching (1994) and the P.A. Mack Award for Distinguished Service to Teaching (2002). His use of technology in the classroom has been recognized through an Ameritech Fellowship (2001-02) and a Teaching and Learning Technology Grant (2005).
Pace has lectured on teaching in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and he has published numerous books and articles in the scholarship of teaching and learning, most recently Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking, which he co-edited with Joan Middendorf, and "The Amateur in the Operating Room: History and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," which appeared in The American Historical Review in the fall of 2004. Since 1998 he has been co-director of the Indiana University Freshman Learning Project.
