Porntip Israsena Twishime Receives Distinguished Teaching Award

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Porntip Israsena Twishime, communication PhD candidate, has received the UMass Amherst Center for Teaching and Learning's Distinguished Teaching Award.

The only student-nominated teaching award on campus, the Distinguished Teaching Award is bestowed annually on two faculty members and two graduate student instructors in order to honor exemplary teaching at UMass Amherst. In addition to a monetary prize, winners have their names inscribed on the DTA memorial wall in the Integrative Learning Center.

Porntip (Ploy) Israsena Twishime is a storyteller, educator, and doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at UMass. She is also a recipient of the 2022-2023 MIT Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She researches stories and storytelling as a mode of communication and a methodology for communication studies. Her creative research practice considers the relationships between empire, race, gender, class, and sexuality in Asian America.  Her work is available in zines, online art spaces, and academic journals such as International Review of Qualitative Research and on her website, porntipisrasena.com.