Congratulations to our 2023 graduates!

Date
05/16/23

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!