A&S Department Final Exercises Web Pages and Student Awards
Students, families, faculty, staff, alumni and friends are invited to visit their A&S department final exercises web pages and to view student award information here. Congratulations graduates!
Departments and Student Awards
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African American and African Studies
Distinguished Majors Program
High Distinction
Keiara Frances Price
Reginald D. Butler Award for the Best Distinguished Majors Thesis
Inaugural Presentation
Keiara Frances Price
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American Sign Language Program
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Anthropology
Department of Anthropology's Baba Ramdas Maharaj Ji evəm RSKhare parivāra Award, also known as the Vasudhaiva Kutumbhakam (the World is Family) Award
Inaugural Presentation
Alison Broach, PhD
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Archaeology
UVA Global Internship by the International Studies Office
- Savhannah Long
Phi Beta Kappa
- Marie Pinto
The Mellon Lab for Dissecting Cultural Pluralism: “Religion and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean”
- Abigail Staub
Harrison Research Award
- Abigail Staub
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Astronomy
D. Nelson Limber Award for Undergraduate Work in Astronomy
- Megan Noelle Kenny
- Eric Connor
RohrAlexander Vyssotsky Prize for Undergraduate Research in Astronomy
- Josef McCormack Zimmerman
Timothy P. McCullough, Jr. Scholarship Award in Astronomy
- Camryn Louvain Phillips (2019)
- James Henry (Jamie) Staeben (2020)
Laurence W. Fredrick Graduate Teaching Award
- Luca Beale
- Zhe-Yu (Daniel) Lin
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BioEthics
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Biology
Graduation 2020 - Ceremony
Distinguished Major Program
Highest Distinction
- Chris Oliveira
- Tess Gibson
- Torun Carlson
- Emma Steinson
- Andria Li
High Distinction
- Trevor Atkenson
- Julia Boehling
Distinction
- Priya Jain
- Bryan Nolasco
- Joey Mancusi
- Leilani Miranda
- Ngozi Akingbesote
Fleming Award
- Mark Dombrovski
- Ryan Grippo
- Yunlu Zhu
Dent Award
- Mark Dombrovski
- Yunlu Zhu
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Chemistry
Distinguished Major Program
Highest Distinction
- Tina Chai
- Andrew Chung
- Lucas Frye
- Sadeechya Gurung
- Pranav Ravichandran
- Colton Sheehan
- Eric Wang
High Distinction
- Robert Fisher
- Merly Konathapally
- Mehron Kouhestani
- Andrew Christopher
Distinction
- Sean Lee
ACS Section Award
Connor Headley
ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry
Connor Headley
ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry
Thomas Miller
ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry
Connor Headley
Alpha Chi Sigma Chemistry Award
Hannah Lewis
Carl O. Trindle Award for Excellence in Chemistry
Thomas Miller
Chemistry Departmental Award for Excellence
- Charles Preston
- Colton Sheehan
- Eleanor Patrinely
- Sadeechya Gurung
Chemistry Departmental Undergraduate Teaching Award
- Jeyda Turker
- Tina Chai
Francis Carey Undergraduate Teaching Award
Andrew Chung
Frederick S. Richardson Award for Excellence in Chemistry
Andrew Chung
Hugh Miller Spencer Scholarship Award
Tina Chai
Oscar R. Rodig Alpha Chi Sigma Chemistry Award
Haley Blair
Robert Bryan Undergraduate Teaching Award
Indigo Milne
Robert Burnett Undergraduate Teaching Award
John Philip Le
Robert G. Bryant Award for Excellence in Chemistry
Katherine Okeson
Royal Society of Chemistry Certificate of Excellence
Aaron Ho
The American Institute of Chemists, Inc. Outstanding Senior
Andrew Hudspeth
American Chemical Society Certification
- Mehdi Abed
- Haley Blair
- Jacob Butler
- Anna Carey
- Andrew Carro
- Tina Chai
- Chelsea Cho
- Andrew Chung
- Antea Cooper
- Andrew Dudzik
- Lauren Eller
- Robert Fisher
- Lucas Frye
- Sadeechya Gurung
- Kevyn Hadley
- Duncan Hart
- Connor Headley
- Aaron Ho
- Andrew Hudspeth
- Milner Kennedy
- Merly Konathapally
- Mehron Kouhestani
- John Philip Le
- Sean Lee
- Nayoung Lee
- Hannah Lewis
- Isabella Mighell
- Thomas Miller
- Tara Morgen
- Ava Niknejad
- Zachary Palas
- Eleanor Patrinely
- Nathanael Pilar
- Charles Preston
- Pranav Ravichandran
- Colton Sheehan
- Eric Wang
- Arthur Willmore
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Classics
J. P. Elder Prize
Annika Tallis
Anne Marye Owen Prize in Classics
Clare Draper
Marian W. Stocker Prize
Savhanna Long
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Cognitive Science
Cognitive Science Research Excellence
- Grace Elizabeth Biegger
- Sarah Nicole Craig
- Camille Andree Favero
- Christopher Stuart Hall
- Anne Elizabeth Dorothy Heyse
- Jeremy Lewis Levine
- Madeline Hayes Woodruff Luehr
- Raeanne Nicole Martell
- Rana Sharmeen Rahman
- Frederick Theodore Schubert III
- Tarun Kumar Vippa
- Samuel Barbour Wilson
Distinguished Major Program
Highest Distinction
- Sam Wilson
High Distinction
- Christopher Hall
- Ted Schubert
- Tarun Vippa
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Disability Studies
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Drama
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Economics
Distinguished Majors Program
Highest Distinction
- Chenchen (Sabrina) Peng
- Dalton Ruh
- Hema Shah
- Matthew Wohlleben
High Distinction
- Yuqi (Megan) Cheng
- Cole Chisom
- Phillip Given
- Margaret Isaacson
- Ha Viet Pham
- Grant Tobben
Distinction
- Zhang, Amy
The Kenneth G. Elzinga Scholarship
- Chenchen (Sabrina) Peng
- Grant Tobben
- Phillip Given
- Hema Shah
- Christopher Oliveira
- Cole Chisom
- Derrick Wang
- Yuqi (Megan) Cheng
- Haroon Tahir
- Neel Hosamane
The William Hill award
- Julia Kothmann
- Derrick Wang
The Goldman Sachs Scholars Fund Scholarship
- Jacob Eck
- Savannah Quick
- Wuxin (Angeline) Zeng
Snavely Best Dissertation
- Emily Cook
- Alex Gross
- Devaki Ghose
Neil Mathur Best Paper in Econ 4880: Seminar in Policy Analysis
- Chenchen (Sabrina) Peng
- Hema Shah
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English
WAGENHEIM PRIZE FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGLISH MAJORS
Stephen Artner
“Erotic Knowledge: The Allure of the Unknown in the Hebrew Bible”
WAGENHEIM PRIZE FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGLISH MAJORS
Isabelle Aldridge
“Sweetness”
RACHEL ST. PAUL POETRY PRIZE
Aline Dolinh
“Doppelgangress Theory”
HANNAH KAHN POETRY PRIZE
Maggie Weaver
"Stopping by Walnut Creek Park"
THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE
Lydia Brown
"The Dream House"
BALCH PRIZE FOR A GRADUATE STUDENT IN ENGLISH
Gahl Pratt Pardes
“Courage”
Honorable Mention: Raisa Tolchinsky “Rates and Vessels”
BALCH PRIZE FOR A MASTER'S STUDENT IN ENGLISH
Fain Riopelle
“Learning to Learn to Write: Adapting the Principles and Practices of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy into First-Year Writing Curricula”
THOMAS J. GRIFFIS PRIZE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ENGLISH
Catherine Walshak
"A Poet is a Self-Made Thing: Self-Branding and Commodification in Instagram Poetry"
THOMAS J. GRIFFIS PRIZE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ENGLISH
Matthew Martello
“The Notebook, Laocoön, and Blake’s Beauties of Inflection”
GOSNELL PRIZE FOR BEST ESSAY IN A FIRST-YEAR WRITING CLASS
Britney Cheung
“To Paint a Memory,” and her instructor Natalie Thompson
MICHAEL WAGENHEIM MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Stephen Artner
- Madison Aurnou
- Jacob Baker
- Selina Cheng
- Anouck Dussaud
- Yixuan Liu
- Tom Pollard
- Josy Raheem
- Aaron Rose
- Ebenezer Sampong
- Lyla Ward
- Salem Zelalem
PETER AND PHYLLIS PRUDEN SCHOLARSHIP
- Madison Aurnou
- Jacob Baker
- Abby Glaubit
- Emma Karnes
- Ebenezer Sampong
- John Shimazaki
- Elliot Van Noy
- Skylar Wampler
WILLIAM AND CHARLOTTE SAVAGE SCHOLARSHIP
- Emma Bradford
- Bradley Sheen
Distinguished Majors Program
Kristen R. Barrett
"Transatlantic Conversations: Literary Subversion in Iola Leroy and The Real Charlotte"
Advisor: Jennifer Greeson
Xara Natasja Davies
"From Sex to Slaughter: Agency and Gendered Violence in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife"
Advisor: Mrinalini Chakravorty
Nora Pehrson
"As If in a Book: Everyday Reading in Wallace Stevens"
Advisor: Mark Edmundson
Josy Raheem
"Abject Imagery and the Function of Disgust in Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Divine Love"
Advisor: Elizabeth Fowler
Anne Elizabeth Whitney
"Trauma in Anna Burns' Milkman"
Advisor: Victor Luftig
Sarah Rush Woodard
“When the 'Defined' Define: Ethical Functions of Language for Black Women in Toni Morrison's A Mercy"
Advisor: Tamika Carey
Eileen Ying
"Capital Transmissions: Mattering Race in Ling Ma's Severance and Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats"
Advisor: Sylvia Chong
Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award in the Arts and Humanities
Samuel Lemley
All-University Graduate Teaching Award
- Joseph Wei
- Sarah Winstein-Hibbs
2020-2021 Society of Fellows Dissertation Fellowship
Jordan Burke
Jefferson Fellowship, Jefferson Scholars Foundation
Cherrie Kwok
GSAS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
- Evan Cheney
- Julianne McCobin
- Anne-Marie Thompson
- Sarah Winstein-Hibbs
- Jordan Burke
2020-2021 GSAS Teaching Relief Fellowship
Tucker Kuman
2020-2021 PhD Plus internships
- Ankita Chakrabarty
- Karen Huang
- Heidi Siegrist
- Joseph Wei
2020 Henfield Prize
Aimee Seu “Continued Existence”
Honorable Mention: Acacia Johnson "Guided"
2020 Sydney Hall Blair Award for Excellence in Teaching
Suzie Eckl
2020-2021 Praxis Fellows at the UVA Scholars’ Lab
- Grace Alvino
- Elise Foote
- Cherrie Kwok
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Fellowships
- Cherrie Kwok
- Wei Liu
- Bridget Reilly
- Lloyd Sy
Cornell School of Criticism and Theory Scholarships
- Eyal Handelsman-Katz
- Hannah Loeb
Harvard Institute for World Literature Scholarships
- Stephen Hager
- Samuel Walker
T.S. Eliot International Summer School Scholarships
- Wei Liu
- Matthew Martello
2020 Marshall Scholarship
Kristen Barrett
2020 Rhodes Scholarship
Eileen Ying
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Environmental Sciences
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Environmental Thought & Practice
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European Studies
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French
Distinguished Major Program
Highest Distinction
- Benjamin Nochimson
Maas Prize Winner 2nd Place
- Belle Pace
- Blake Hesson
- Addie Patrick
Maas Prize Winner Honorable Mention
- Maame Esi Eghan
Phi Beta Kappa
- Quinn Funston
- Hildy Maxwell
- Meghan Murphy
Pi Delta Phi French Honor Society
- Kathryn Grant
- Robert Kirks
- Belle Pace
- Taylor Rice
- Caroline Stephens
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Germanic Languages & Literatures
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Global Studies - Interdisciplinary Major
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Global Studies - Environments and Sustainability
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Global Studies - Global Development Studies
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Global Studies - Global Public Health
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Global Studies - Security and Justice
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History
Stephen C. Innes Prize for the Best Undergraduate Essay on the Theme of “Community in History”
Michael Marrow
Bernard Peyton Chamberlain Memorial Prize for the Best Distinguished Majors Thesis in World History
Matthew Poliakoff
Bernard Peyton Chamberlain Memorial Prize for the Best Distinguished Majors Thesis in History
Shweta Watwe
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Human Biology
Distinguished Majors Program
Highest
- Krithika Reddy Arrabothu
- Alexis M. Catalano
- Joyce M. Cheng
- Mariam O. Gbadamosi
- Brett A. Goerl
- Cassandra M. Grello
- Alyson C. Lee
- Chelsea E. Li
- Jessi K. Rowell
- Colleen Marie Schinderle
- Kartik J. Shah
- Mira Sridharan
- Claire Szipszky
- Mythili Vigneshwar
- Ashley M. Williams
High
- Belle S. Pace
- Mariella F. Toro
Distinction
- Charlotte H. Campbell
- Panjapon Tangtrongsittkul
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Jewish Studies
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Latin American Studies
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Linguistics
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Mathematics
E.J. McShane Prize
Ryuchi Sebastian Haney
Trent Lucas
Edwin E. Floyd Prize
2020 recipients (in second or third year)
Nathan Li
Zach Baugher
2019 recipient (graduating this semester)
Trent Lucas
2019-2020 Outstanding Mathematics Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Andrew Kobin
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Medieval Studies
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Mellon Indigenous Arts Program
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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
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Music
Brander Wyatt Morrison Prize
- Jordan Renee Brown
- Naomi Collins
- Justin Ray Crawford
- Michael Patrick Dearing
- Robert DiCicco
- Zoë Osiason Gray
- Andrew Yang Jiao
- Madison Karten
- Catherine Elise Kolo
- Kyle Edgar Girard Lofland
- Julia Minh Thu Nguyen
- Wang “Billy” Qi
- Caroline Samantha Schetlick
- Adam Wever
- Emily Anne Williams
- Tianyu Zhang
Departmental Recognition
- Jordan Renee Brown
- Robert DiCicco
- Zoë Osiason Gray
- Yehyun “Grace” Kim
- Martin Moro
- Julia Minh Thu Nguyen
- Caroline Samantha Schetlick
- Thomas Andrew Shaw
- Adam Wever
- Emily Anne Williams
- Tianyu Zhang
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Neuroscience Graduate Program
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Neuroscience Undergraduate Major
Neuroscience Research Excellence
- Anthara Gnanakumar
- Rachel Ilyse Greene
- Katherine Anne Hanna
- Kevin Livingstone (2019)
- Bailey Jo Ellen McGrew
- Elsa Olivia Nylund
- Elizabeth Kathryn Wat
- Isabelle Famke Witteveen
College Science Scholars
- Robin Nian Guan Bai
- Dove-Anna Johnson
Distinguishes Majors Program
Highest Distinction
- Robin Nian Guan Bai
- Connor Virginia Haynes
- Jeewoo Kim
- Samantha Marie Strohm
- Elizabeth Kathryn Wat
- Isabelle Famke Witteveen
- Abby June Wood
High Distinction
- Umar Arshad
- Sakar Budhathoki
- Nisha Kishor Dabhi
- Dove-Anna Johnson
- Asha Krishnakumar
- Bailey Jo Ellen McGrew
- Elsa Olivia Nylund
- Lasyapriya Pidaparthi
- Margaret Mary Shields
Distinction
- Megan Sophia Chappell
- Anthara Gnanakumar
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Philosophy
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Physics
Steve Thornton Undergraduate Research Award
Ephraiem Sarabamoun
Outstanding Undergraduate Physics Major Award
Andrew Wilkers
Outstanding Undergraduate Physics Major Award
Andrew Jiao
Outstanding Graduate Research Award in Physics
Rajveer Nehra (graduating Summer 2020)
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Political and Social Thought
William Lee Miller Thesis Prize 2020
- Javaria Abbasi
- Phi Beta Kappa
- JavariaAbbasi
- Neely Egan
- Vittoria Richards
- Alena Titova
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Political Philosophy, Policy & Law
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Politics
Recipient of the Allison J. Meloy Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award 2019-2020
Chen Wang
Recipient of the Stevenson Prize and Rhodes Scholar
Eileen Ying
Recipient of the Emmerich-Wright Prize
Gregory Arnold
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Psychology
Frank W. Finger Memorial Scholarship
- Anna Elizabeth Sumpter
Frank W. Finger Research Award
- Katherine Hosey
M. Jerry Homzie Memorial Scholarship
- Bailey Jo Ellen McGrew
The Psychological Society Award
- Jenna Barbara Marzougui
Maury Pathfinder Undergraduate Prize
- Noah Jacob French
DISTINGUISHED MAJORS
- Audrey Alexander, High Distinction
- Jun Seok Bae, High Distinction
- Brendan Sean Baker, Highest Distinction
- Sofia Andaya Espinosa, Distinguished Major
- Noah Jacob French, Highest Distinction
- John Samuel Hissong, High Distinction
- Jenna Barbara Marzougui, High Distinction
- Carolynn Elizabeth McElroy, Highest Distinction
- Rafael Fontinha Olivos, High Distinction
- Sophia Devorah Ritt, High Distinction
- Ravjot Kaur Saini, Highest Distinction
- Emmet Sullivan, High Distinction
- Emma Taylor White, High Distinction
- Sarah Eliana Woolf, High Distinction
Outstanding Psychology Merit
- Katherine Hyun Ahn
- Audrey Alexander
- Emily Ives Angelotti
- Brendan Sean Baker
- Madison Channing Ballman
- Alexis Gabrielle Biltz
- Allison Carignan
- Holly Wingfield Carrington
- Kenneth Chen
- Kendall Elizabeth Curley
- Taelor Brionna Davis
- Caitlin Noel Dozier
- Noah Jacob French
- Bita Golshani
- Gabrielle Ines Gramont
- Samara Jamie Hamou
- Joyce Xinyi Hong
- Katherine Hosey
- Sarah Huffman
- Deborah MinJoo Kang
- Kevin Alexander Larsen
- Jiajia Liang
- Victoria Emalee Lim
- Kevin Livingstone
- Jiayi Lu
- Ryan Michael Masak
- Carolynn Elizabeth McElroy
- Bailey Jo Ellen McGrew
- Blair Marie Nicol
- Rafael Fontinha Olivos
- Soo Jung Park
- Andrew Jay Raj
- Sophia Devorah Ritt
- Joanna Seung-Hyun Ro
- Katie Skye Robbins
- Kristen Renee Rose
- Faith Anne Runnells
- Ravjot Kaur Saini
- Lauren Elizabeth Sanborn
- Fangxin Shen
- Nikisha Singh
- Samantha Marie Strohm
- Ashley Howell Sullender
- Maren Elizabeth Sword
- Mary Elise Talkington
- Zukhruf Ahmed Tehreem
- Julia Rebecca Deaner Trachtenberg
- Jenna Christine Warren
- Kaylyn Ann Wertz
- Bethany Karis Willis
- Hannah Michelle Wolfe
- Tianyu Zheng
Research Excellence in a Psychology Laboratory
- Audrey Alexander
- Brendan Sean Baker
- Alexis Gabrielle Biltz
- Eunice Yeboaa Boateng
- Sara Brunstetter
- Kendall Elizabeth Curley
- Amber Lee Kabo Curran
- Sofia Andaya Espinosa
- Madeline Rose Fleischmann
- John Alexander Forehand
- Ella Siri Obayashi Fredriksen
- Noah Jacob French
- Samara Jamie Hamou
- John Samuel Hissong
- Katherine Hosey
- Sarah Huffman
- Deborah MinJoo Kang
- Victoria Emalee Lim
- Xiaofan Lin
- Zinnia Lin
- Elana Gabrielle Marmorstein
- Jenna Barbara Marzougui
- Carolynn Elizabeth McElroy
- Azza Mohammed
- Denica Rosin Obis
- Oluwafunmilayo Aderonke Ogungbade
- Rafael Fontinha Olivos
- Courtney Ott
- Poonam Patel
- Nathan Keith Patterson IV
- Numa Salim Rehmani
- Sophia Devorah Ritt
- Leila Chenoweth Sachner
- Ravjot Kaur Saini
- Fangxin Shen
- Nader Sidhom
- Ashley Howell Sullender
- Emmet Sullivan
- Mary Elise Talkington
- Beshoui Hani Thabet
- Julia Rebecca Deaner Trachtenberg
- Sean Wells
- Emma Taylor White
- Hannah Michelle Wolfe
- Sarah Eliana Woolf
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Religious Studies
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Slavic Languages & Literatures
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Sociology
Robert Bierstedt Prize (Best graduate student paper of 2019-20)
Mary Collier-Wilks
Graduate Student Teaching Award
Shayne Zaslow
Commonwealth Award (Best undergraduate student paper of 2019-20)
Rachel Lefkowitz
Distinguished Major Program
Highest Distinction
- Jacob Thomas Shaw
- Grant Thornton Tabler
High Distinction
- Michele Olivia Kalweit
Distinction
- Samuel Essex Bachman
- Abbey Potter
Award for outstanding Distinguished Major Thesis
Jacob Thomas Shaw
Honorable mention: Grant Thornton Tabler
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Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Giulliano Prize in Spanish
Javaria Abbasi
Louise Garth Scholarship
Katerina Silis
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Statistics
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Writing & Rhetoric Program
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