Lauren Cramer recognized with Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award

Lauren Cramer, an assistant professor at the Cinema Studies Institute in the Faculty of Arts & Science has received a Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award.

Known by students for her “transformative” teaching style, Cramer’s research focuses on the aesthetics of Blackness and pop culture with published writing that explores everything from Jay-Z videos to Meghan Markle’s wedding.

“Teaching is truly the centre of my scholarly praxis. The advances I make in my research are all, in some way, a result of the time spent in the classroom,” Cramer says.

“Here, where students are looking to me to make sense of the material and explain the purpose of advanced study in our precarious time, I’m constantly pushed to become a better reader and writer. So, at the same time I’m honoured to receive this teaching award, I’d like to express my gratitude to U of T’s students for being such wonderful interlocutors.”

Cramer is one of six of the University of Toronto’s innovative educators recognized with the award, named for U of T’s former vice-president and provost Cheryl Regehr, a professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and a longtime champion of teaching excellence and innovation at the university. 

Learn more about this year’s recipients.