Dr. Pacchioni is the recipient of a Faculty Excellence Award in Scholarship, Teaching and Service. The faculty committee that reviewed this year’s nominees recognized Dr. Pacchioni for having “established a truly impressive record as teacher-scholar with a strong spirit of service to Chapman and its students.”

In particular, the committee unanimously expressed praise for Dr. Pacchioni’s “stellar record of publication as a scholar of Fellini and Italian cinema”, for his “passion for teaching” in both Italian language and culture courses and interdisciplinary courses, and for bringing “phenomenal growth” to the Italian Studies program through “leadership and hard work.”