Allan Lichtman - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Lichtman has received numerous awards at American University during his career. Most notably, he was named Outstanding Scholar/Teacher for 1992-93, the highest faculty award at that school. Other honors include:

• Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar, California Institute of Technology, 1980–81
• Top Speaker Award, National Convention of the International Platform Association, 1983, 1984, 1987
• Selected by the Teaching Company as one of America's "Super Star Teachers"

Also, in the early 1980s while living in California as a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, Lichtman had a 17-show stint on the game show Tic Tac Dough. He won $100,000 during his time on the show.