The Department of Linguistics had their Year-End Graduation and Awards Celebration on May 5th, 2023.
It was a wonderful time to reflect on the past year, and to recognize our amazing students. Congratulations to our awardees! We wish you continued growth and success!
Awards
Departmental Awards: Linguistics and Less Commonly Taught Languages
Henry R. Kahane Award for Outstanding TA in Non-Western Languages
- Hanna Asmaeil
Silver Jubilee Award for Outstanding TA in Linguistics
- Elizabeth King
- Daniel Stelzer
C.W. Kim Research Award in Linguistics
- Jennifer Zhang
Linguistics Student Leadership Award
- Wafa Al-Alawi (SOSY co-chair)
- Sarah Clark (SOSY co-chair)
- Aylin Coskun Kunduz (ILLS co-chair)
- Mai Mohamed Eida (ILLS co-chair)
- Nadia Pinto (LOL president)
- Anna Romaniuk (LSO president)
Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Linguistics Award
- Mariam Abushamaa - Linguistics
- Emilie Schramer - Linguistics
- Kevin Chen – CS+Linguistics
Departmental Awards: MATESL and Intensive English Institute
Peter Strevens Award for Academic Excellence
- Anna Krokhmal
Mary A. Hussey Award for Excellence in ESL Teaching
- Rosana Gomez Cayapu
Peter Strevens Award for Excellence in Teaching in the IEI
- Aria Santos
- William Leroux
Katherine O. Aston Award for Outstanding Masters Thesis
- William Leroux
Prestigious Non-Departmental Awards
SLCL dissertation completion fellowship (23-24 AY):
- Aylin Coskun Kunduz
- Ping-Lin Chuang
Doug Kibbee Prize (2023)
- Aylin Coskun Kunduz
NSF doctoral dissertation research grant (2023):
- Aylin Coskun Kunduz
Duolingo dissertation award; TOEFL Small Grants for Doctoral Research; selected as a student editorial board member for the Journal of Second Language Writing:
- Ping-Lin Chuang
FLAS fellowship (23-24 AY)
- Brennan Dell
SLATE doctoral research award, and Paula Menyuk Award for top-rated abstracts (BUCLD47)
- Chae Eun Lee
2023 Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence award
- Hanna Asmaeil
American Pragmatics Association: Graduate Student Travel Award
- Britni Moore
Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
- Benjamin Evanoff
Degrees
BA in Linguistics
- Mariam Abushamaa
- Jeffrey Aguirre
- Molly Banwart
- Matthew Benson
- Madeleine Cummings
- Dahlia Davis
- Benjamin Evanoff
- Sophie Gire
- Daniel Hickey
- Aleesa Johnson
- Clio Kidwell
- Matthew Kotz
- Shuning Li
- Catherine Liu
- Maithreyi Parthasarathy
- Veronica Perez Martinez
- Travis Rehkemper
- Anjolee Rice
- Natalie Salazar
- Emilie Schramer
- Ezra Shelato
- Alice Simms-Mangian
BS in Computer Science and Linguistics
- Syed Ali
- Sahit Atreya
- Madison Beneke
- Ayman Charafeddine
- Kevin Chen
- Marie Fredrickson
- Leonardo Galindo-Frias
- Helena Gao
- William Guo
- Daniel Hettinger
- Kenneth Koepcke
- Joonhee Lee
- Haolin Liu
- Haoyu Liu
- Erik Ly
- Venyatha Manne
- Neha Mathew
- Keagan Mirazee
- Varun Nair
- Vaughn Parker
- Ishita Rao
- Aleena Rehman
- Sahil Sashi
- Isaac Schifferer
- Ajith Senthil
- Xiaohan Tao
- Ariane Taraki
- Luciana Toledo-Lopez
- Philip Vukovic
- Takashi Yoda
- Hannah Zhang
- Viola Zhao
MA in Teaching English as a Second Language
May 2023:
- Martin Gumus
- Anna Krokhmal
- William Leroux
- Mikako Masuda
- Sara Perez
- Alexandria (Aria) Santos
- Yao Zhang
August 2023:
- Hana Asmaeil
- Quinn Bilyeu
- Ryan Corrigan
- Ivan Crespo
- Rosana Gomez Cayapu
MA in Linguistics
- Elizabeth King
- Anna Romaniuk
- Abraham Ulloa
PhD in Linguistics
- Hyunji (Hayley) Park (August 2022)
- Shuju Shi (December 2022)
- Yan Sun (December 2022)
- Emily Chen (May 2023)
- Jennifer Zhang (May 2023)
Congratulations to our graduates!