The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has selected Professor Andrew Sobiesuo, Associate Provost for International Education and Professor of Spanish, to receive a prestigious Fulbright Award to Germany IEA (Internal Energy Agency).
On May 11, 2017 the School of Languages, Cultures and World Affairs hosted their annual Awards Ceremony honoring distinguished students. Congratulations to the following students
Graeser Memorial Award – Tori Lisa Akerley
Harold A. Mouzon Award – Sarah Legendre
Robert H. Duryea, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Award – Catherine R. Raines
Josef Modzelewski Memorial Award – Victoria Mary Lane Ruedy
German Friendly Society Travel Scholarship – Hillary McLaurin
Conseula Francis Outstanding Student Award – Aisha Gallion
James F. Snyder European Studies Award – Kathryn Hemphill, Shelly Phillips
Ludwig Lewisohn Prize – Sierra Debrow
Norton Seltzer Awards in Jewish Studies (2)
African American Studies, Dr. Simon Lewis
Community Activism Award – Chantelle M. Lebeau
Rising Scholar Award – Lanasa A. Clarkson
Outstanding Senior Award – Ashley Padilla
Capstone Project Award – Aisha Gallion
Archaeology, Dr. Jim Newhard
Golden Marshalltown Award – Sarah Legendre
Classics, Dr. Jim Newhard
Outstanding Student, BA – Sarah F. Cohen
Outstanding Student, AB – Hannah C. Edwards
Departmental Honors – Erik Cardwell
Hannah C. Edwards
French, Francophone, and Italian, Dr. Lisa Signori
Departmental Honors – Salvador Lopez Rivera
French Club Award – Tatyana Ponds, Lea Wright
Italian Outstanding Student Award – Jordan Buckner, Mary Rose White
German and Russian, Dr. Morgan Koerner
Russian Studies Award – Natalia Hardee
Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate – Nathaniel Dabbs
American Council of Teachers of Russian
Hispanic Studies, Dr. Mark Del Mastro
Most Accomplished Major – Tori Akerley
Outstanding Spanish Major – Zach Sturman
Departmental Honors – Torrie Buchanan
Gabriela Mistral Award – Maya Novák-Cogdell
National recognition for outstanding member of Sigma Delta Pi, National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society
Distinguished Spanish Majors:
Tori Akerley Bailey Kirkland
Carmen BensVega Zachary Sturman
Torrie Buchanan Kelsey Vories
Jasmin Graham Mary Watkins
Portuguese Award – James Riggs
International Studies, Dr. Doug Friedman
Departmental Honors: Outstanding Student Award
Kathleen Crotty Elizabeth Beyer
Emma Denley Grace Compton
Bailey Kirkland Sarah Dudley
Margaret Panetta Sara Ford
Krista Pequegnat Gabrielle Kaye
Alexandra Rodriguez Alexis Logan-Brown
Katherine Williams
Jewish Studies, Dr. Marty Perlmutter
Outstanding Student Award Jazmine L. Morgan
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Dr. Lola Colomina-Garrigos
Outstanding Student Award – Tori Akerley
Steven Kramer, double major in International Business and Spanish with a minor in German (CofC ’14), will begin the MA program in linguistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in fall 2017.
Maya Novak-Cogdell, Spanish major and 2017 CofC graduate, will enter the Ph.D. program in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin in fall 2017.