Graduate, undergraduate students awarded with numerous scholarships, grants, fellowships

University graduate students and students in the College once again have been awarded a variety of prestigious academic grants, scholarships and fellowships.

Graduate students receiving awards are listed below.

American Academy of Rome––Rome Prize

Gabriel David Pihas

American Bar Association

Ajay Mehrotra

Ethan Michelson

American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship

Brian Schwegler

Lynn Tesser

American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowships

Jocelyn Marrow

Thomas Asher

American Institute for Yemeni Studies Fellowship

Kareem Kysia

American Jewish Archives Fellowship

Daniel Greene

American National Can Predissertation Fellowships

Mayanthi Fernando

Emmanuel Saadia

Bentley Library, University of Michigan Travel Grant

Ajay Mehrotra

Blakemore Foundation Grants for Advanced Study of Asian Languages

Anya Bernstein

Stephen Halsey

Robert Stolz

Center for Arabic Study Abroad Program in Cairo Fellowship

Ian Straughn

Center for Latin American Studies Summer Research Grant

Elizabeth Myer

Council on European Studies Predissertation Fellowship

Jessica Greenberg

Bourse Chateaubriand Fellowship

Catharine Krizancic

DACOR Bacon House Foundation Fellowship

Rachel Ziemba

Deloitte & Touche Foundation Fellowship

Xia Chen

Department of Defense Graduate Fellowships

Kendall Nettles

Department of State/IIE Fulbright

Jovita Baber

Julie Christ

Catherine Cole

Kate Lingley

Jason McGraw

Robert Stolz

Sian Thomas

Angela Volan

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Grants German Academic Exchange Service

Annika Fisher

Anna Holian

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdjienst Grants Annual Grants

Anna Holian

John Urang

Andrew Bivens

Annika Fisher

Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Exchange Program

Beth Buggenhagen

Dissertation Writing Fellowships

Japanese Studies

Sandra Collins

Katsuya Hirano

Miho Madarme

Derek Wolff

Chinese Studies

Bonnie Cheng

Lijun Chen

Tong Lam

Fubing Su

Jungmin Seo

Dumbarton Oaks Jr. Fellowship

Ceclily Hilsdale

Dwight Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowships Program

Breena Holland

Environmental Protection Agency Fellowship

Brian Sidlauskas

Florence Gould Predissertation Fellowship

Benjamin Nickels

Foreign Language Enhancement Program Fellowships

Anamaria Ayala

Ilker Binbas

Nicole Castor

Edward Cohn

Jessen Kelly

Spencer Leonard

Michael Ralph

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships

Academic Year

Aaron Ansell

Christopher Ball

Rena Barakat

Kristin Bloomer

Brian Brazeal

Elizabeth Bucar

Anthony Cerulli

Grace Chae

Susan Chlebove

Edward Cohn

Elizabeth Cooper

Whitney Cox

Elena Dodge

Paul Fischer

Alyssa Gabbay

Sarah Hammerschlag

Gabrielle Isaacs

Bertie Kibreah

Suzy Kim

David Kaiser

Omar Kutty

Brian LaPierre

Steve Mannos

Sean Mitchell

Viren Murthy

Pedram Partovi

Farkhondeh Shayesteh

Tien-Ann Shih

Andrew Sloin

Kara Stanek

Katherine Strange

Summer

Sareeta Amrute

Mary Andronis

Aaron Ansell

Gretchen Bakke

Toni Babourine

Kristin Bloomer

Elizabeth Bucar

Justine Buck

Anthony Cerulli

Edward Cohn

Naomi Davidson

Elena Dodge

Tolga Esmer

Andrew Graan

Sarah Hammerschlag

Gabrielle Isaacs

David Kaiser

Anh Ly

Jeffrey Martin

William Martin

Tanya Maus

Sean Mitchell

Benjamin Nickels

John Osburg

Anne Pycha

Scott Richard

Jonathan Ripley

Tien Shih

Sunit Singh

Benjamin Smith

Jessica Vantine

Francois Furet Travel Grants

Yarimar Bonilla

Elizabeth Heath

James Mathien

Allison Morehead

Michael Ralph

The Franke Institute for the Humanities Fellowship

Aaron Wells Kitch

Jean Yen-Chun Ma

Rochona Majumdar

Riccardo Marchi

Franz Fellowship, American School in Athens

Georgi Parpuov

Fulbright Germanistic Society of American Quadrille Fellowship

Sean Forner

German Marshall Fund of the United States for Predissertation Research

Jessica Greenberg

The William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowships

Alexander Dehgan

Kelly Hayes

Michael Kessler

Ryan Scranton

John Socha

Andres Villarreal

Theodore Yoo

William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Award

Patrick Hajovsky

Miller Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley

Ben McCall

Howard Hughes Fellowships

Ryan Hagglund

Todd Sangster

Joshua Shapiro

Humboldt Foundation Budeskanzler Fellowship for Research Abroad

Sean Forner

Illinois Consortium for Equal Opportunity Program

Illya Davis

Harvind Rikhiraj

Institut díEtudes politiques de Paris Exchange Program

Dana Simmons

Institute for Advanced Study of Religion at Yale Fellowships

Kelly Chong

Mary Chwedyk Konieczny

Institute for the Study of World Politics Dissertation Fellowship

Deborah Boucoyannis

Lynn Tesser

International Research & Exchanges Board

Andrew Gilbert

Japan Foundation Fellowship

Maki Fukuoka

Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies Scholarship

Mikael Wolfe

Lurcy Fellowship to France

Ellen Andrew

Markovitz Dissertation Fellowship

Gustav Peebles

McCormick Tribune Foundation

Jose Guajardo

Jessica Sommerville

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation-Year Fellowships

Anthropology

Landon GreeneBenjamin Zimmer

Classical Languages & Literature

Edith Foster

English Language & Literature

Scarlett Higgins

Matthew Hofer

History

Tong Lam

Stefan Winter

Human Development

Shaifali Sandhya

Linguistics

Svetlana Soglasnova

Political Science

Chad Cyrenne

Social Thought

Ryan Hanley

Sociology

Fabio Rojas

Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Achievement Fellowships

Drew Davies

Jay Elliott

Keiko Yoshimura

Robert Germany

Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia Doctoral Fellowship

Ajay Mehrotra

Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley Fellowship

Ben McCall

National Aeronautics & Space Administration Graduate Student Researchers Program

Samuel La Roque

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships

Jennifer Brace

Katherine Doherty

James Emerson

Zara Fettig

Courtney Handman

Susan Harrell

Steven Kosiba

Erica Landes

Katherine McGurn

Ashlinn Quinn

Monica Rohrschneider

Todd Sangster

Joshua Shapiro

Brian Sidlauskas

Charles Stayton

Andrew Tollard

NSF Dissertation Improvement Award

Daniel Monterescu

Edward Swenson

Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowships

Thomas Bartscherer

Caroline Brown

Richard Reitan

Andrew Sartori

Genevieve Zubrzycki

John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies

Deborah Boucoyannis

Overseas Dissertation Research Grants

Divinity

Sharon Albert

Kathleen Self

Humanities

Dana Akanova

Yun-Chiahn Chen

Terri Francis

Pieter Keulemans

Riccardo Marchi

Joseph Maurey

Allison Terry

Tamara Wysocki

Social Sciences

Sujatha Fernandes

Ryan Frace

James Guilfoyle

Mathew Hill

Peter Kanelos

Sarah Berton Van Deusen Phillips

Palestinian American Research Center Fellowship

Lori Allen

Felix Posen Doctoral Fellowship Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dana Katz

Smithsonian Institution Fellowship

Kenneth Allen

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowship

Greg Beckett

Social Science Research Council Fellowship Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies

Karrin Hanshew

Lynn Tesser

Social Science Research Council Fellowship Travel Grant

Harris Kim

Ajay Mehrotra

Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program

Will Bennis

Patrick Hatcher

Kwai Ng

Social Science Research Council Program on Philanthropy and the Non-Profit Sector Dissertation Fellowship

Enid Coleman

Joseph Doyle

Heather Macindoe

Spencer Foundation

Cathleen Denise Cahill

Terry Woronov

Taiwan Ministry of Education Language Fellowships

Academic Year

Jerald Keys

Summer

Rebecca Handler-Spitz

Pamela Raboy

Toyota Fellowship Awards

Alisa Freedman

Tanya Maus

Mie Nakachi

Christopher Nelson

University of California San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Robert McLaughlin

Wenner-Gren Foundation

Verity Elston

Mrs. Giles Whiting Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Alisa Freedman

Kevin Hawthorne

Scott Lucas

Sheri Pargman

Paul Rosenkoetter

Florence Vatan

James Wilberding

Ann Yasin

Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies Residential Research Fellowship

Jesse Shipley

Students in the College who competed in national competitions and won awards are listed below.

Churchill Scholarship

Jesse Bloom

DACOR Bacon House Foundation Fellowship

Rachel Ziemba

National Defense Science and Engineering

Graduate Fellowship Program

Benjamin Zwiebel

USIA/IIE Fulbright Grant

Constantinos Hotis

(France, teaching)

Jennifer Insley

(Mexico)

Goldwater Scholarship

Daniel Egel

Avital Strauss-Benjamin

Peter Onyisi

Katherine Ryan

Hispanic Scholarship Fund

Angela Hernandez

Lucia Medina

Lincoln Academy of Illinois Student Laureate

Stephen Lund

Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship

Anthony Delmonte

Andrew Evans

Claire Jacobs

Adam Light

Rebecca Stein

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Jesse Bloom, Biophysics

Josef Defek, Geology

Zara Fettig, Neuroscience

Mattew Gealy, Mathematics

Wayne Hsiung, Political Science

Elizabeth Lehman, Ecology

Jason MacGurn, Genetics

Katherine McGurn, Anthropology

Katherine Nagel, Neuroscience

Andrew Penner, Sociology

Andrew Tolland, Physics

Alice Yao, Anthropology

Benjamin Zwiebel, Physics

Rhodes Scholarship

Bradley Henderson

Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship

Elizabeth Plocharczyk

Russian-US Young Leadership Fellowship for Public Service

Krista Nelson

Truman Scholarship

Sean Campbell