W.D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor Peter Fritzsche was awarded the King Broadrick-Allen Award by the Campus Honors Program (CHP) in recognition of his outstanding teaching of Chancellor's Scholars and his distinguished service to the CHP mission. Fritzsche was nominated by students in the program. He has taught a variety of classes for Chancellor's Scholars on the history of the holocaust, voluntary and involuntary migration, the social, political, cultural, and medical impacts of pandemics, and a history of presidential elections.
In the award letter Laurie Johnson, the director of the Campus Honors program and a professor of Germanic languages and literatures, wrote:
"The sheer amount of effort and work that has gone into your development and implementation of these classes is inspiring on its own—but you also have demonstrated, time and again, true care for and dedication to your students ... It is an honor to have a scholar of such high caliber who is simultaneously deeply invested in undergraduate education teaching in the CHP curriculum. The topics you teach could not be more important. The way you teach them, by interactively involving the students in a lived sense of the material, is equally significant."
The award is supported by Sandra Broadrick-Allen, who established it to honor her late husband who oversaw honors education at the university before CHP was founded in 1986. Fritzsche will be honored at the CHP annual Graduation Recognition Ceremony and Reception on May 15.