On Wednesday May 1st, our department gathered for its annual Year-End Graduation and Awards Celebration.
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
Prestigious Non- Departmental Awards
Graduate College dissertation completion fellowship (23-24 AY):
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz
SLCL dissertation completion fellowship (24-25 AY):
Mai Mohamed Eida
Graduate College master's travel grant (Fall 2023):
Sibel Arikoglu
Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Award (23-24 AY,
Summer 2024) and Black Metropolis Research Consortium Summer
Short-Term Fellowship (Summer 2023)
Britni Moore
FLAS fellowships:
• Brennan Dell (2024-2025 AY)
• Paul de Nijs (2024-2025 AY)
• Cory Lemke (Summer 2024, 2024-2025 AY)
CEAPS Graduate Student conference travel grant (Spring 2024)
• Aylin Coşkun Kunduz
• Yulin Pan
Linguistic Society of America COGEL Travel Award
• Allison Casar
Departmental Awards: MATESL
Peter Strevens Award for Academic Excellence (MATESL)
Sibel Arikoglu
Yu-Wen Lien
Mary A. Hussey Award for Excellence in ESL Teaching (MATESL)
Hilal Karakorkmaz
Katherine O. Aston Award for Outstanding Masters Thesis (MATESL)
Rosana Gomez-Cayapu
C.C. Seetoo Award for Innovation in TESL Research and Practice (MATESL)
Uliana Ovsiannikova
Ogulcan Durmaz
Departmental Awards: Linguistics and Less Commonly Taught Languages
Henry R. Kahane Award for Outstanding TA in Non-Western Languages
Dorothy Maweu
Silver Jubilee Award for Outstanding TA in Linguistics
Allison Casar
Joshua Dees
C.W. Kim Research Award in Linguistics
Huiying Cai
Mingyue Huo
Britni Moore
Eyamba G. Bokamba Graduate Scholarship Award
Joshua Dees
Linguistics Student Leadership Award
Mingyue Huo (ILLS)
Katherine Kwak (ILLS)
Amelia Tighe (LSO)
Sid Bhushan (LOL)
Joshua Dees (Overall leadership)
Outstanding Undergraduates in Linguistics Award
Sid Bhushan (CS+LING)
Nadia Pinto (LING)
LSO Community Leader Award
Joshua Dees
LSO Linguistics Ambassador Award
Paul de Nijs
LSO Professional Development Award
Aylin Coskun Kunduz
Degrees
BA in Linguistics
Dalton Ascone
Jack Bartscher
Hailee Bosek
Jerry Chen
Julia Di Marco
Brianna Eckart
Lauryn Henry
Kelsey Jackson
Jae Knecht
Beth Kokal
Tommy Lee
Shenshen Lyu
Eric Mattson
Ren Nielsen
Nadia Pinto
Jayci Reese
Bryan Retallick
Natalie Salazar
Anna Selleck
Francesco Vial
Seth Wickens- Walther
BS in Computer Science and Linguistics
Faraaz Baig
Daniel Bargon
Dhruv Baronia
Eesha Barua
Sid Bhushan
Mohit Chhaya
Willie Cui
Meghna Gaddam
Neha Gogate
Riya Gupta
Owen Hayes
Anish Jampana
Nikhil Kapse
Jackson Kennel
Aditi Khanna
Natasha Kozintseva
Sana Madhavan
Sirya Mikkilineni
Stephanie Patterson
Hao Qi
Aleena Rehman
Aishani Sahoo
Varun Sarabudla
Rishi Sekhar
Dhruv Sundararaman
Shiv Trivedi
John Warzecha
BS of Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language
Jackie Becerra
Carly Gaca
Caleigh Kupferschmid
MA in Teaching English as a Second Language
Rosana Gomez Coyapu (December 2023)
Dorothy Maweu (May 2024)
Sibel Arikoglu (August 2024)
Ogulcan Durmaz (August 2024)
Hilal Karakorkma (August 2024)
Suhyeon Lee (August 2024)
Yu-Wen Lien (August 2024)
Madison McCann (August 2024)
Uliana Ovsiannikova (August 2024)
Jess Streepy (August 2024)
MA in Linguistics
Yulin Pan
Paul De Nijs
Majda Layek
Isela Silvera
PhD in Linguistics
August 2023:
Wafa Al-Alawi
Marco Silva Fonseca
December 2023:
Omid Abdar
Sarah Clark
Gorrety Wawire
May 2024:
Patrick Drackley
Giang Le
August 2024:
Ping-Lin Chuang
Farewell:
We would like to give our best wishes to two faculty members who have been a part of our department for many years.
Special thanks to Hugh Bishop (Visiting asst prof, lecturer, (MAT)ESL, 2005-2024) and Chilin Shih (Professor, EALC and Linguistics, 2003- 2024) for everything that they have done for our department!
Congratulations to all award winners and graduates! We wish you all the best!