
Jonathan Gienapp is the “Michael Jordan of the Stanford History Department.”
— Johann Smith ’24 M.A. ’25
A dedicated teacher and mentor, Jonathan Gienapp has been widely recognized for such efforts both inside and outside the classroom.
At Stanford, he has been awarded the university’s highest teaching award, the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, in addition to the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize and the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in the School of Humanities and Sciences in the area of First Years of Teaching.
Beyond Stanford, he has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association.
