Peter Andrew Dourmashkin (Cambridge, MA) is a Senior Lecturer at MIT that has taught in the Physics Department, and at a variety of specialized programs at MIT including the Experimental Study Group, Integrated Studies Program, Seminar XL and Project Interphase both of which are sponsored by the Office of Minority Education. He has been awarded the Irwin Sizer Award for Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education and the Buechner Faculty Teaching Prize. In addition to his work developing physics courses at MIT, he assisted Professor Eric Mazur (Harvard University) in writing a first-year introductory physics textbook published in 2014.