Ryan Deuel Named Outstanding New Teacher at Clarkson University
Clarkson University Assistant Professor of Honors Ryan P. Deuel has been awarded the Outstanding New Teacher Award for 2026.
Established by the University Committee on Improvement in Teaching in 1991, the award recognizes an outstanding teacher within his or her first four years at Clarkson University. Criteria for selection include excellence in the classroom, capacity to motivate and challenge students and creativity in teaching methods and curriculum development.
“Deuel demonstrates his ongoing commitment to Honors pedagogy and the student experience, even as he provides extensive student support and broader administrative and service experience that contribute to strong Clarkson-Potsdam community relations and to the success of Clarkson University as a whole,” Kate Krueger, Director of Honors and Professor Literature, said in her nomination letter. “He is genuinely invested in uplifting students to achieve their potential and to developing high-impact learning experiences for students.”
Deuel first began teaching at Clarkson in 2021 as an adjunct instructor for Clarkson’s Department of Communication, Media and Design. In 2023, he was hired as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Honor and became a fulltime Assistant Professor of Honors in 2025. Deuel also serves as a faculty affiliate for Clarkson’s Institute for STEM Education and the Institute for a Sustainable Environment.
Deuel is a practitioner-turned-scholar, combining more than a decade of previous higher education administrative experience with his doctoral research. He is a critical scholar of international higher education whose work employs poststructural theory and discourse analysis to examine how international organizations mobilize global student flows through trade-in-services frameworks. His research has been published in the academic journals Higher Education Policy, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and Globalisation, Societies and Education.
His forthcoming publication in the National Collegiate Honors Council’s (NCHC) journal Honors in Practice, titled “See for yourselves: Developing critical AI literacy among honors students through classroom article mapping activity,” examines how university honors students engage with generative AI concepts, applications, and its ethical implications while also critically examining AI outputs and empowering students to recognize their own analytical skills and reading competencies.
Deuel earned his doctorate degree in Integrated Studies in Education in 2022 from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Deuel has also presented his research at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Sociological Association (ASA), the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), and the Canadian Society for the Studies in Education (CSSE). He currently serves as a peer reviewer various academic journals, including the Journal of International Students and the Journal of Global Higher Education, among others.
