May 25, 2016
Kiran was named among three honorees for the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prizes.
From Harvard Magazine:
"WOLCOTT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY Alison Simmons presented three honorees with the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prizes. Nominated by the society’s undergraduate members and selected by its undergraduate marshals, they were:
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Kiran Gajwani, a lecturer and adviser in the economics department “renowned for her senior research seminar,” and described by her students as “free-thinking and knowledgeable.”
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senior lecturer on Buddhist literatures Charles Hallisey, who, in the words of the citation, “combines philosophical rigor with warmth and intimacy to help students find profound wisdom in truly unexpected places.”
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Brigitte Libby, an assistant dean of Harvard College, who “makes the ancient Roman world come alive for her students through space-time travel.” (The honorand was absent, reported Simmons, “for the happiest of reasons”: Libby had given birth to her daughter over the weekend.)