She’s won numerous teaching awards, including the Texas Exes Award for Teaching Excellence, the UT School of Social Work’s Lora Lee Peterson Teaching Award, and the UT System Regents’ Award for Excellence in Teaching. Holleran Steiker is a Steering Committee member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers and the inaugural chair of the Signature Course Advisory Committee. She earned her bachelor’s of arts in honors English from Duke University, her master’s of social work from the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. in social work from Arizona University.