The 2018 MacVicar Faculty fellows are (clockwise from top left): Shankar Raman, David Autor, Merritt Roe Smith, and Christopher Capozzola.
(Courtesy of MIT Registrar’s Office.)
By Sarah Hansen, OCW Educator Project Manager
For the past 26 years, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program has honored several MIT professors each year who have made outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, educational innovation, and mentoring.
This year’s awardees are Professors David Autor (economics), Christopher Capozzola (history), Shankar Raman (literature), and Merritt Roe Smith (history).
OCW is honored to share courses from all of this year’s Fellows.
David Autor
14.03 Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy
14.11 Putting Social Sciences to the Test: Field Experiments in Economics
Christopher Capozzola
21M.630 Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies
21H.223 War & American Society
21H.221 The Places of Migration in United States History
21H.225J Gender and the Law in U.S. History
21H.224 Law and Society in US History
Shankar Raman
21L.451 Introduction to Literary Theory
21L.704 Studies in Poetry: From the Sonneteers to the Metaphysicals
21L.703 English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare
21L.017 The Art of the Probable: Literature and Probability
Merritt Roe Smith
STS.462 Social and Political Implications of Technology
21H.116J The Civil War and Reconstruction
STS.001 Technology in American History
STS.025J Making the Modern World: The Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
STS.427 The Civil War and the Emergence of Modern America, 1861-1890
Through the OCW Educator initiative, we have also collected Instructor Insights from Professor David Autor about how he teaches 14.03 Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy. His roundabout path to teaching labor economics is both fascinating and encouraging to those of us on a winding path toward finding our passions!
- Learning to Think Like an Economist
- Offering Multiple Tools for Mastery
- Common Misconceptions about Economics
- A Roundabout Path to Labor Economics
Interested in more Instructor Insights from past MacVicar Fellows? Visit our OCW Educator portal to search for Insights from MIT Teaching Award Recipients. Delve into the minds of Lorna Gibson, Catherine Drennan, Arthur Bahr, Dennis Freeman, and many other MIT professors advancing teaching and learning in their fields.
