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).
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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.