COAH Website Feature December 2015
Dr. Jeff Zamostny won the UWG competition for the Georgia Regents' Teaching Excellence
Award (Individual Teaching Category). Dr. Zamostny will also be UWG's nominee in the
statewide competition in this category.
Jeffrey Zamostny holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Social Theory
from the University of Kentucky. He joined the faculty of the University of West Georgia in
January of 2012 as Assistant Professor of Spanish. His research examines discourses on
modernity and sexuality in the mass culture of early twentieth-century Spain. He teaches
courses on Spanish and Gender Studies at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum, and
has organized several interdisciplinary panels on gender and sexuality for UWG's Innovations in
Pedagogy Conference. Since arriving at UWG he has been engaged in numerous high-impact
educational activities, having led study abroad programs, directed student research, and taught
in learning communities. In 2014 Dr. Zamostny received the Foreign Language Association of
Georgia's Teacher of Promise award, which recognizes faculty in the early stages of their career
who show pedagogical excellence and effectively promote the student engagement with
foreign languages and cultures at the post-secondary level.
From right to left, Dr. Zamostny with UWG students Levi Bly, Mariela Ortega, and Briana Crawford at the
Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica in May of 2014. The students took Zamostny's course on Costa Rican
Modernism in the Latin American Context.