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Lawrence University Cites Two Faculty Members for Outstanding Teaching

          APPLETON, WIS. -- Lawrence University faculty members Franklin
Doeringer and Rebecca Epstein Matveyev were honored for their teaching
contributions Sunday at the college's 150th commencement.
     Doeringer, the Nathan M. Pusey Professor of East Asian Studies and
Professor of History, received Lawrence's Excellence in Teaching Award,
while Matveyev, assistant professor of Russian, was presented the
Outstanding Young Teacher Award.
     A specialist in the history of China, Japan and Korea, Doeringer joined
the faculty in 1972 and earned the college's Outstanding Young Teacher Award
four years later.  A member of the Association for Asian Studies, the
American Historical Association and the International Society for Chinese
Philosophy, Doeringer has written numerous articles on traditional Chinese
thought and is the author of two books, "The Peoples of East Asia" and the
1997 two-volume textbook, "Discovering the Global Past." 
     In presenting the award, Lawrence President Richard Warch hailed
Doeringer's contributions as the only member of the history department with
non-Western expertise.
     "You were solicited to fill enormous tracts of both time and space
beyond your own specialty," said Warch.  "All of East Asia, including Japan,
has been yours, as has been all of its history, from ancient to modern.  For
several generations of Lawrence students, you have covered that ground with
the grace and equanimity of an Emperor Yao or Shun."
     Doeringer graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a
bachelor's degree in history and Oriental studies and earned his doctorate
in East Asian languages and cultures at Columbia. 
      A scholar of 19th-century Russian literature who has written on
Dostoevski, Pushkin and Tolstoy, Matveyev joined the Lawrence faculty in
1996.  She has been active in pursuing ways to improve the way foreign
languages are taught, including the introduction of a communicative approach
to language instruction.  
     Last year she presented paper at a conference at Moscow State
University on the use of song lyrics to help develop the listening
comprehension skills of Russian language students.  She also delivered the
paper, "What Our Students Can Really Do:  Reality vs. the Standards in the
Less Commonly Taught Languages" at a meeting of the Wisconsin Association of
Foreign Language Teachers.   
     "You have worked assiduously to introduce students to the language,
literature and culture of a country central to the past and future of the
western and eastern worlds," said Warch in presenting Matveyev her award.
"Exposing your students to the many different manifestations of language
-- in literature, song, film and everyday expressions -- you make Russian
come alive in your classroom."
     A member of the American Council of Teachers of Russian and the Modern
Language Association, Matveyev earned a bachelor's degree in English and
Russian from Rice University and her doctorate in Russian literature from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison.