Danielle Kurin
Danielle Kurin - Awards and Honors for Teaching Excellence
Danielle Kurin started her teaching career in 2005 at Vanderbilt University, where she served as a teaching assistant in anthropology. She later held continuous teaching roles that included teaching associate, visiting professor, instructor of record, Fulbright visiting professor, and assistant professor at Peruvian universities. Danielle Kurin has also served as an assistant professor of bioarchaeology at the university of California, Santa Barbara since 2014.
At the University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. Kurin received the Tri-Delta Teacher Appreciation award. This award is driven by student recognition of exceptional instruction and mentorship. It aligns closely with student evaluations describing her as an approachable educator who integrates real-world applications into anthropology and bioarchaeology coursework.
Earlier in her career, Dr. Kurin earned the outstanding graduate teaching assistant award and the award for excellence in graduate assistant teaching from Vanderbilt University. These honors reflect her early dedication to inclusive pedagogy and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology courses. Her teaching during this period combined hands-on methodological training with critical writing and research development, laying the foundation for her later teaching model.
Danielle Kurin’s contributions to education have also been formally recognized beyond US institutions. In Peru for example, she was awarded the President’s Medal for teaching and service by the Universidad Nacional JM Arguedas, acknowledging her dual role as an educator and community-engaged scholar. Additional honors include the Frederica De Laguna Award for Meritorious Academic Work in Anthropology.
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