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Christian Ochsner awarded the Jan Švejnar and Katherine Terrell Teaching Prize at CERGE-EI for 2023/2024

17 September, 2024

It is a great pleasure to announce that Christian Ochsner won the Jan Švejnar and Katherine Terrell Teaching Prize at CERGE-EI for the 2023/2024 academic year. Congratulations!

The award is based on the average student rating of the faculty in the first and second-year graduate courses. The rating is based on the question that refers to the overall quality of the faculty member as a teacher in the given course.

The Jan Švejnar and Katherine Terrell Teaching Prize has been awarded annually since 2001. Štěpán Jurajda was the first faculty member to receive the award (for 2001/2002). The goal is to publicly recognize the best teachers of economics at CERGE-EI, to emphasize to the CERGE-EI community the importance of teaching excellence in our institution, and to communicate to CERGE-EI students that their evaluation of faculty is considered an important part of the CERGE-EI mission.

Christian Ochsner is an Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI and a Research Associate at SIAW-University of St. Gallen. He holds a doctoral degree from Dresden University of Technology. In his research, he looks at critical junctures in history and how they matter today. You can hear his research in one of our episodes of the Talking Economics podcast, available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.