Photo by Paul Efland.
Great teaching is grounded in scholarship that transcends mere classroom performance.
The truly outstanding teacher constantly reshapes and reinterprets the content of a course. That combination of scholarship with teaching makes Theodore Shifrin one of UGA's outstanding teachers. A native of Berkeley, Ca., Shifrin received the bachelor's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the master's and doctoral degrees at the University of California at Berkeley, finishing in 1979. After serving as an instructor at MIT for two years, he came to UGA as an assistant professor in 1981. Shifrin was promoted to associate professor in 1986 and to professor in 1995.