Congratulations to Dr. Ljiljana Duraskovic, who has earned a 2024 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award!

Teaching Professor Ljiljana Duraskovic, Ph.D., serves as an Assistant Dean in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences; Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Advisor to the Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian Studies minor; and East European and Near Eastern Program Coordinator for the intensive Summer Language Institute.

The Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes teaching excellence by members of the University of Pittsburgh’s faculty.  Teaching excellence includes how a member of the faculty generates intellectual excitement in students and how they motivate students to acquire the knowledge essential to personal and professional achievement. Distinguished teaching implies sustained commitment, effectiveness in helping students achieve meaningful goals, and overall teaching excellence.