Congratulations to Abbas Milani, one of five recipients of Stanford's Walter J. Gores Award, the university’s highest award for excellence in teaching. It recognizes faculty, teaching staff, and students who have made special contributions to teaching, including lecturing, tutoring, advising, and discussion leading.
Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies in H&S and a professor (by courtesy) in the Stanford Global Studies Division. He is also a founding co-director of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Milani is recognized for his curiosity and openness as a teacher, bringing broad cultural knowledge, enthusiasm, depth, and clarity to every class. He raises new perspectives that add to students’ conversations and learning while teaching without hubris. He also empowers students to lead discussions and to grow as scholars.
"Dr. Milani is a virtuoso; a teacher in the truest sense of the word, a scholar of sincerity," wrote a nominator. "Above all, he is a person of deep integrity and tremendous humility, anchored in his convictions and mooring so many of us, his students, to a path of greater clarity in troubled times."