{"id":20973,"date":"2026-10-07T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/?p=20973"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:52:45","slug":"early-career-instructor-excellence-in-teaching-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/2026\/10\/07\/early-career-instructor-excellence-in-teaching-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael de Mello awarded Early Career Instructor Excellence Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);grid-template-columns:auto 16%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-garnet-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rafael de Mello, Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics<\/strong>, has been awarded the Early Career Instructor Excellence in Teaching Award by ELIAS the Education and Learning in International Affairs Section of the International Studies Association (ISA), the leading International Studies association worldwide. Congratulations, Rafael!<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/files\/2026\/10\/Rafael-de-Mello.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/files\/2026\/10\/Rafael-de-Mello.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20974 size-full\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael de Mello, Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, has been awarded the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":" ","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20981,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions\/20981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}