The Wig Distinguished Professor award for excellence in teaching is the highest honor bestowed on Pomona faculty and recognizes exceptional teaching, concern for students and service to the College and the community.
The recipients of the Wig Award are elected by the junior and senior classes and then confirmed by a committee of trustees, faculty and students. The awards are announced at Commencement each year. They were established by Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Wig in 1955.
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2003
Name |
Department |
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Elizabeth Crighton |
Politics |
Donna Di Grazia |
Music |
Ronald Cluett |
Classics, History |
Phyllis Jackson |
Art History |
Daniel O'Leary |
Chemistry |
2002
Name |
Department |
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Daniel Birkholz |
English |
William Banks |
Psychology |
Cecilia Conrad |
Economics |
Jerry Irish |
Religious Studies |
David Menefee-Libey |
Politics |
Katherine Hagedorn |
Music |
2001
Name |
Department |
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Pierre Englebert |
Politics |
Kathleen Fitzpatrick |
Media Studies |
Richard Hazlett |
Geology |
Nicole Weekes |
Neuroscience |
Jonathan Wright |
Biology |
Samuel Yamashita |
History |
2000
Name |
Department |
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Michael Kuehlwein |
Economics |
Paul Saint-Amour |
English |
Cynthia Selassie |
Chemistry |
Lenny Seligman |
Biology |
Margaret Waller |
Romance Languages and Literatures |
1999
Name |
Department |
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Martha Andresen |
English |
Eleanor Brown |
Economics |
Paul Hurley |
Philosophy |
John Seery |
Politics |
Shahriar Shahriari |
Mathematics |
1998
Name |
Department |
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Jon Bailey |
Music |
Alvin Beilby |
Chemistry |
Sharon Goto |
Psychology, Asian American Studies |
Zayn Kassam |
Religious Studies |
Adolfo Rumbos |
Mathematics |
Gary Smith |
Economics |
Kenneth Wolf |
History, Classics |
1997
Name |
Department |
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Fred Grieman |
Chemistry |
Jerry Irish |
Religious Studies |
David Menefee-Libey |
Politics |
Daniel O'Leary |
Chemistry |
Monique Saigal |
Modern Languages & Literatures |
Miguel Tinker Salas |
History, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies |
1996
Name |
Department |
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Deborah Burke |
Linguistics and Cognitive Science |
Elizabeth Crighton |
Politics |
Richard Hazlett |
Geology, Environmental Analysis |
Harry Mullikin |
Mathematics |
Bruce Telzer |
Biology |
William Whedbee |
Religious Studies |
1995
Name |
Department |
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Edward W. Copeland |
English |
Michael Kuehlwein |
Economics |
Eric Miller |
Modern Languages and Literatures |
Christopher Rohlman |
Chemistry |
Teresa Strecker |
Biology |
Samuel Yamashita |
History |
Michelle Wierson |
Psychology |
1994
Name |
Department |
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Martha Andresen |
English |
Eleanor Brown |
Economics |
Stephen Erickson |
Philosophy |
Sidney Lemelle |
History, Africana Studies |
Rachel Levin |
Biology, Neuroscience |
John Seery |
Politics |
1993
Name |
Department |
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David Elliott |
International Relations, Government |
James McKenna |
Anthropology |
Jill Schneiderman |
Geology |
Cynthia Selassie |
Chemistry |
Shahriar Shahriari |
Mathematics |
Frederick Sontag |
Philosophy |
Kenneth Wolf |
History, Classics |
1992
Name |
Department |
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David Becker |
Biology |
Paul Hurley |
Philosophy |
David Menefee-Libey |
Government |
Gary Smith |
Economics |
Brian Stonehill |
English, Media Studies |
1991
Name |
Department |
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Paulette Bierzychudek |
Biology |
Raymond Buriel |
Psychology, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies |
Robert Herman |
Sociology |
Thomas Moore |
Physics |
Hans C. Palmer |
Economics |
Margaret Waller |
Romance Languages & Literatures |
1990
Name |
Department |
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Deborah Burke |
Linguistics and Cognitive Science |
Elizabeth Crighton |
Politics |
Michael Kuehlwein |
Economics |
Harry Mullikin |
Mathematics |
William Whedbee |
Religion |
Samuel Yamashita |
History |
1989
Name |
Department |
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Martha Andresen |
English |
Jon Bailey |
Music |
Eleanor Brown |
Economics |
Stephen Erickson |
Philosophy |
Sidney Lemelle |
History, Africana Studies |
Lee McDonald |
Government |
1988
Name |
Department |
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Edward Copeland |
English |
Richard Harrison |
History |
Richard Lewis |
Psychology |
James McKennna |
Anthropology |
Kenneth Wolf |
History, Classics |
1987
Name |
Department |
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Karen Hult |
Government |
Steven Koblik |
History |
Cristanne Miller |
English |
Brian Stonehill |
English |
1986
Name |
Department |
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Hans-Dieter Brueckner |
Modern Languages and Literatures |
Liliane Fucaloro |
Modern Languages and Literatures |
Burdette Poland |
History |
Samuel Yamashita |
History |
1985
Name |
Department |
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Martha Andresen |
English |
Elizabeth Crighton |
Politics |
Stephen Erickson |
Philosophy |
1984
Name |
Department |
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Deborah Burke |
Linguistics and Cognitive Science |
Richard Harrison |
History |
James McKennna |
Anthropology |
Nivia Montenegro |
Romance Languages and Literatures |
1983
Name |
Department |
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Robert Chambers |
Astronomy, Physics |
Fred Krinsky |
Government |
Cristanne Miller |
English |
Herbert B. Smith |
History |
1982
Name |
Department |
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Burdette Poland |
History |
R. Nelson Smith |
Chemistry |
Brian Stonehill |
English |
1981
Name |
Department |
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Harry J. Carroll |
Classics |
David Elliott |
International Relations, Government |
Daniel Mazmanian |
Government |
Yost Amrein |
Biology |
1980
Name |
Department |
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Deborah Burke |
Linguistics and Cognitive Science |
Richard Harrison |
History |
James McKennna |
Anthropology |
Harry Mullikin |
Mathematics |
1979
Name |
Department |
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Martha Andresen |
English |
Franklin Tugwell |
Government |
Elizabeth Crighton |
Politics |
Vincent Learnihan |
History |
Wayne Steinmetz |
Chemistry |
1978
Name |
Department |
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William P. Banks |
Psychology |
James Likens |
Economics |
Donald McIntyre |
Geology |
Hans C. Palmer |
Economics |
William Whedbee |
Religion |
Elmer Tolsted |
Mathematics |
1977
Name |
Department |
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Jay Atlas |
Linguistics, Philosophy |
Harry J. Carroll |
Classics |
Corwin Hansch |
Chemistry |
Steven Koblik |
History |
Burdette Poland |
History |
1976
Name |
Department |
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James Armantage |
Religion |
Leo Flynn |
Government |
Fred Krinsky |
Government |
Harry Mullikin |
Mathematics |
Frederick Sontag |
Philosophy |
1975
Name |
Department |
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Martha Andresen |
English |
Karl Kohn |
Music |
Jean Walton |
Women's Studies, Mathematics |
1974
Name |
Department |
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Lyman Benson |
Botany |
Harry J. Carroll |
Classics |
Virginia Crosby |
Romance Languages |
Charles Holmes |
English |
Frederick Mulhauser |
English |
Burdette Poland |
History |
Donald H. Zenger |
Geology |
1973
Name |
Department |
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Yost Amrein |
Zoology |
Leonard Pronko |
Theatre, Romance Languages |
William Russell |
Music |
Hans C. Palmer |
Economics |
Richard Fass |
Chemistry |
1972
Name |
Department |
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Neal Cornell |
Chemistry |
Harry Mullikin |
Mathematics |
Darcy O'Brien |
English |
William Whedbee |
Religion |
1971
Name |
Department |
---|
William Faust |
Psychology |
Steven Koblik |
History |
R. Stanton Hales |
Mathematics |
Franklin Tugwell |
Government |
1970
Name |
Department |
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Frederick Sontag |
Philosophy |
John Gleason |
History |
Neal Cornell |
Chemistry |
Noel Chrisman |
Anthropology |
1969
No awards given in 1969
1968
Name |
Department |
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Karl Kohn |
Music |
Lee C. McDonald |
Government |
Vincent Learnihan |
History |
Vladimir Ulitin |
Russian |
Stephen Erickson |
Philosophy |
Hans C. Palmer |
Economics |
1967
Name |
Department |
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Robert Voelkel |
Religion |
Yost Amrein |
Zoology |
Harry J. Carroll |
Classics |
Morton Beckner |
Philosophy |
Paul B. Yale |
Mathematics |
Hans-Dieter Brueckner |
Modern European Languages and Literatures |
Robert Chambers |
Astronomy |
1966
Name |
Department |
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Margaret Davies |
History |
Edwin Phillips |
Botany |
Robert Ferm |
Religion |
Jack C. Miller |
Physics |
Michael Armacost |
International Relations, Government |
1965
Name |
Department |
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Carl Bauman |
Modern European Languages and Literatures |
R. Nelson Smith |
Chemistry |
Burdette Poland |
History |
Leonard Pronko |
Theatre, Modern European Languages and Literatures |
Richard Barnes |
English |
Richard MacMillen |
Zoology |
1964
Name |
Department |
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William F. Russell |
Music |
Edward Weismiller |
English |
John Vieg |
Government |
1963
Name |
Department |
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Ch'en Shou-Yi |
Chinese Culture |
Lyman Benson |
Botany |
Henry Cord Meyer |
History |
1962
Name |
Department |
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Burton Henke |
Physics |
Donald McIntyre |
Geology |
Gerhard Rostvold |
Economics |
1961
Name |
Department |
---|
W.T. Jones |
Philosophy |
Corwin Hansch |
Chemistry |
Chester Jaeger |
Chemistry |
1960
Name |
Department |
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Frederick Bracher |
English |
Charles Fowler |
Physics |
Frederick Mulhauser |
English |
1959
Name |
Department |
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Floyd Bond |
Economics |
Raymond Iredell |
Philosophy |
R. Nelson Smith |
Chemistry |
Ernest Strathmann |
English |
1958
Name |
Department |
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Roger Hazelton |
Religion |
1957
Name |
Department |
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Floyd Bond |
Economics |
Ernest Strathmann |
English |
1956
Name |
Department |
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Floyd Bond |
Economics |
Ernest Strathmann |
English |
1955
Name |
Department |
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Floyd Bond |
Economics |
Ernest Strathmann |
English |