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Decker Wins Humanities Teaching Award
Posted: August 22, 2005


The University of Houston Department of History proudly announces that Professor Hannah S. Decker has won the 2005 Teaching Excellence Award in the Humanities given by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.  Selection for the award is based on nomination; letters of recommendation from alumni, students, and other faculty members; students'teaching evaluations; statement of the candidate's own teaching philosophy; and supporting materials (syllabi, exams, etc.)

Professor Decker teaches graduate seminars on Nazi Germany and nineteenth century European politics, society, and culture and undergraduate classes on nineteenth and twentieth century German history, the life and times of  Sigmund Freud and the history of psychoanalysis, and Western Civilization sixteenth-twentieth centuries.  She has chaired Ph.D. dissertation and M.A. thesis committees.  She also conducts one-on-one special problems courses in a wide variety of European history topics.  She has a particular interest in teaching the history of ideas and the relationship between science and culture.

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