April 27, 2023
Abigail De Kosnik, faculty affiliate of Asian American Research Center, is one of five UC Berkeley instructors chosen to receive the campus's 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award. Kosnik is associate professor in the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies and is being recognized for her kind, riveting, and invitingly challenging teaching style. Mel Chen, associate professor of gender and women’s studies, added that students speak of Kosnik “not with the expected hierarchical reverence, but rather a beautiful sense of gratitude and collegiality, which was clearly a response to the mode of address she had cultivated with them.”