On Wednesday May 6th, 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 (AY 25-26):
Chae Eun Lee
Korean Government Scholarship Program (AY 25-26):
Haneul Choi
ROK Ministry of Education HK Global Fellowship (Fall 2025):
Cory Lemke
SLCL dissertation completion fellowship (AY 26-27):
Martine Gallardo
SLATE Conference Travel Award (AY 25-26):
Amy Atiles
Amelia Tighe
SLS Annual Conference Graduate Student Travel Award (Fall 2025):
Haneul Choi
Eleanor Sand
CEAPS Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant (Spring 2026):
Chae Eun Lee
Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant (Spring 2026):
Paul DeNijs
Best student presentation award at Midwest Association of Language Teachers (Fall 2025):
Xinyi Ma
Yulin Pan
IGI Graduate Summer Research Fellowship (2026):
Haneul Choi
Sogang University Language Scholarship (Summer 2026):
Cory Lemke
Graduate Teacher Certificate from CITL:
Daiana Logacheva
Zeynep Canpolat
Polianna Ferreira Da Silva Torres
Huyen Nguyen
Anlu Zhu
Carlos Doncel Black
Juan Camilo Gutierrez Rodriguez
Polina Iurchenko
Victoria Patellos
Ahn Vo
Departmental Awards: MATESL
Peter Strevens Award for Academic Excellence
Sasha Radford
Mary A. Hussey Award for Excellence in ESL Teaching
Sasha Radford
Peter Strevens Award for Excellence in Teaching in the IEI
Laiane Rezende Benites De Castro
Learn more about MATESL Departmental Awards and past recipients here.
Departmental Awards: Linguistics and Less Commonly Taught Languages
Henry R. Kahane Award for Outstanding TA in Non-Western Languages
Priyanka Gupta
Silver Jubilee Award for Outstanding TA in Linguistics
Saman Jamshidi
Mai Mohamed Eida
Isela Silvera
C.W. Kim Research Award in Linguistics
Joshua Dees
Linguistics Student Leadership Award
Saman Jamshidi
Josh Ramanathan
Linguistics Student Organization Award
LSO Community Leader Award: Anna Stephanov
LSO Linguistics Ambassador Award: Elif Varlik
LSO Professional Development Award: Amy Atiles
Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Linguistics Award
Lilyanna Williams – Linguistics
Josh Ramanathan –CS+Linguistics
Learn more about Linguistics Departmental Awards and past recipients here.
Degrees
BA in Linguistics
Nuh Abdur-Rahman
Theodore Aramovich
Magdalena Beczko
Raleigh Bowman
Theo Brady
Brendan Burke
William Cashman
Zaavon Christie
Lincoln Dickens
Aidan Foshay
Ruby Goodman Lee
Phillip Hutcherson
Aleksandra Korza
Amanda Li
Salma Lopez
Abbey Mullen
Andrea Palacio
Nicole Wee
Lilyanna Williams
Kiwin Wu
Shuyi Wu
Shiyuan Zhang
BS in Computer Science and Linguistics
Saad Ahmad
Murray Ahmed
Aryan Amberkar
Simon Anari
Marcus Cai
Man Geun Chun
Jaydon Fleisch
Jade Fleishman
Keene Huynh
Hyeonjin Kim
Yaash Kokkalera
Steven Li
Sky Liu
Emma Maxwell
Aadhiraj Nayar
Josh Ramanathan
Shreya Rao
Ojas Rayaprolu
Rachel Roberts
Eitaro Sakurayama
Emma Shu
Lucy Wu
Tommy Yeon
June Yoo
Leyi Zhang
Kenny Zhou
Alan Zhukovsky
BA in Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language
Trista Hansen
MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Graduating May - August 2026
Sasha Radford
Nghia Quang (Jake) Bui
Nataliya Spiridovich
Ekaterina Shutenko
Laiane Rezende Benites De Castro
Mun Kyung Jung
Sasan Mansouri
Nihan Sanic
Helen Mugo
Rita Seroja Br Ginting
Mehmet Sahin
Eda Yildirimer
MA in Linguistics
Cory Lemke
Sibel Arikoglu
Tai Armstrong
Haneul Choi
Mikaela Martins
Melika Rajabi
Eleanor Sand
Anna Stephanov
PhD in Linguistics
August 2025
Brennan Dell
Elizabeth King
December 2025
Britni Moore
May 2026
Abraham Ulloa
Daniel Stelzer
Farewell:
This Spring, we are sadly bidding farewell to several esteemed faculty members who have done great service for our department and its students.
Charlie Dold (lecturer, ESL)
Monica Ghosh (lecturer, ESL)
Rosana Gómez-Cayapú (lecturer, ESL)
Abdulsamad Humaidan (lecturer, ESL)
Lydia Newkirk (visiting assistant professor, Linguistics)
We wish these faculty members all the best in their next endeavors!
Congratulations to all award winners and graduates! Thank you all for another wonderful year!