Congratulations to our SIS faculty, alumni, staff, and student awardees of 2020!

• SIS Winners of University Awards
• SIS Faculty Awards
• SIS Staff Awards
• SIS Undergraduate Student Awards
• SIS Graduate Student Awards
• SIS Doctoral Student Awards
• SIS Winners of External Awards

SIS Winners of University Awards

Kinsman-Hurst Award

Madison Mauro

Stafford Cassell Award

Shadi Nasabzadeh

SIS Faculty Awards

SIS Distinguished Service Award

Phil Brenner

SIS Scholar/Teacher of the Year

Jeff Bachman

SIS Outstanding Scholarship, Research, Creative Activity & Other Professional Contributions

Audrey Cronin

Jessica Trisko Darden

SIS Outstanding Contributions to Fostering Collaborative Scholarship

Claire Brunel

Simon Nicholson

William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching

Garrett Graddy-Lovelace

Tazreena Sajjad

Darrell Randall Award for Outstanding Service to the University Community

Jennifer Poole

Claudia Hofmann

F. Gunther Eyck Award

Austin Hart

Andrew Spath

Outstanding SIS Faculty Mentor Award

Michelle Egan

Terra Gargano

Outstanding SIS Faculty Administrator

Carole Gallaher

Outstanding SIS Teaching in an Adjunct Faculty Position

Ed Timke

Outstanding Contribution to Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Malini Ranganathan

SIS Staff Awards

Outstanding Service to Students

Marisa Rivero, Undergraduate Academic Advisor

Outstanding Team Player

Jair Van der Stelt, Program Coordinator for Experiential Learning, IAPA, and the Assistant Dean for Master’s Education

Outstanding Service to the University Community

Jessica Chapman, General Manager of the Davenport Coffee Lounge

Outstanding Service to the SIS Community

Matthew Burke, Administrative Assistant in the SIS Hub

Outstanding Performance

Garric Buzzard, Program Coordinator for CRS, GGPS, and USFP

SIS Special Recognition

Grace Williams, former SIS Faculty Affairs Coordinator (now with OIT)

SIS Undergraduate Student Awards

SIS-Wide Outstanding Academic Achievement

Dayana Sarova

Exemplary Achievement in Original Research

Alex Csanadi

Lead, Serve, Make a Difference Award

Mya Zemlock

Frank Willis Scotton Award

Joshua O'Day

Inspire the Professor Award

Mohammad Al-Mailam

Creative Work in International Studies Award

Evan Margiotta

Charles H. Heimsath Memorial Award

Alexia Gardner

Pittman B. Potter Award

Rob Cetrino

Excellence in Regional Studies Award: Sub-Saharan Africa

Corwin Dark

Excellence in Regional Studies Award: East Asia and the Pacific

Harriet Sinclair

Excellence in Regional Studies Award: Europe and Eurasia

Daniel Herschlag

Excellence in Regional Studies Award: Western Hemisphere

Vicky Brown

Excellence in Regional Studies Award: Middle East and North Africa

Shadi Nasabzadeh

Excellence in Regional Studies Award: South and Central Asia

William Shriver

Thematic Award in Peace, Global Security, and Conflict Resolution

Jake Bodenger

Thematic Award in The Global Economy

Madison Mauro

Thematic Award in Foreign Policy and National Security

Sophia Casabonne

Thematic Award in Global Inequality and Development

Jessica Bach

Thematic Award in Environmental Sustainability and Global Health

Preston Fausett

Thematic Award in Identity, Race, Gender, and Culture

Faith Gay

Thematic Award in Justice, Ethics, and Human Rights

Lori Younissess

Thematic Award in Global and Comparative Governance

Tina Maglakelidze

Sigma Iota Rho

SIS also welcomed 47 new members into Sigma Iota Rho this year.

SIS Graduate Student Awards

Louis W. Goodman Award for Outstanding Academic Performance, SIS-Wide

Nate Erwin

Outstanding Professional or Policy Contribution

Hanna Kasahara

Outstanding Service or Activism on Campus

Adrika Lazarus

Outstanding Service or Activism Off Campus

Natalia Cañas

Louis W. Goodman Award for Outstanding Academic Performance

Jaïr van der Stelt

Shannon McNaught

Kleopatra Modisi

Timothy Frantzen

W. Alec Wood

Rebekah Huskamp

Clarissa Kroeger

Kayla Tolbert

Bella Genta

Scott Knewitz

“Hilary” Siew Hwei Kung

Ololade Rachel Oguntola

Outstanding Professional or Policy Contribution

Jenna Russo

Lorah Ludwig

Julia Pataky

Sloane Katleman

Ahyoung Shin

Emily Snyder

Robert Mcdonald

Sam Franco (Denham)

Erin Aucar

Peter Grills

Ephrem Tesfaye Woldegiorgis

Outstanding Service or Activism

Ljubica Nikolic

Iason Tsoukalas

Neil Edwards

Emily Paxson

Kristian Gore

Jessica Gonzalez

Joyce Anglade

Natalie Covill

Serҫan Oktay

Mahmoud Hamid Award for Outstanding Professional or Policy Contribution

Emily Jones

Dr. Mehdi Heravi Internship Fund Recipient

Sheraz Aziz

Nancy Haugh

Pittman B. Potter Award for Outstanding Academic Performance

Ciara Beaulieu

SIS Doctoral Student Awards

Samuel Sharp Memorial Prize for Creative Work in International Relations at the Graduate Level

Ozan Cetin

Ian Reynolds

William C. Olson Award for Outstanding Teaching by a PhD Student

Christina Harris

Award for Excellence in Research Assistance

Frieder Dengler

SIS Winners of External Awards

Austria English Teaching Assitantship

Joseph Desmone (Alternate)

Boren Fellowship

Jonathan Blackmon

Kiara Earle

Alyssa Galik

Elizabeth Hutcheson

Joseph Lacinak

Madeline Olden

Natasha Riegle

Kristian Gore (Alternate)

Boren Scholarship

Mica Annis

Peter Beebe

Yamai Jack

Alexia Gardner (Alternate)

Lauren Morrison (Alternate)

CBYX for Young Professionals

Joseph Desmone

Jason Koehn

Critical Language Scholarship

Ihechiluru Ezuruonye

Diana Knott

Hannah Barrett (Alternate)

Evan Gertler (Alternate)

Mackenzie Hale (Alternate)

Fatoumata Magassa (Alternate)

Claire Mills (Alternate)

Madison Moore (Alternate)

Natasha Riegle (Alternate)

Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship

Aaron Mohabbat

Ana Santos

Skylar Coleman

Karanina Bhattacharjee

Serena Nangia (Alternate)

Jillian Skonieczka (Alternate)

Daniel Herschlag (Alternate)

Henry Summ (Alternate)

Fulbright Study/Research

Kimberly Tower

Hana Manadath

Oliver Hunter (Alternate)

Fulbright UK Summer Institutes

Lauren Beharry (Semi-Finalist)

Noah Burke (Semi-Finalist)

Melanie Collins (Semi-Finalist)

Meredith Fucci (Semi-Finalist)

Bridget Gallagher (Semi-Finalist)

Barbie Goldstein (Semi-Finalist)

Madison Ianniello (Semi-Finalist)

Margaret Willis (Semi-Finalist)

Isabelle Iguchi (Semi-Finalist)

Anna Riggs (Semi-Finalist)

Caroline Routh (Semi-Finalist)

Paul Sutton (Semi-Finalist)

Gilman Scholarship (Summer 2019/Fall 2019/AY20)

Peter Beebe

Samantha Keller

Dan Nguyen

Linda Pham

Elizabeth Seremet (Alternate)

Gilman Scholarship (Summer 2020/Fall 2020/AY21)

Zainab Adisa

Jessica Bach

Dominique Dempsey

Janelle Gray

Gabriel Piccillo

Sahara Pereira Rivera

Mac Kenna Rogers

Samantha McAllister (Alternate)

Bijan Moore (Alternate)

Marshall Scholarship

Annelise Straw (Finalist)

Mt. Vernon Fellowship

Ben Holtzman (Finalist)

NOAA-Hollings

Grace Collins

Pickering Fellowship

Tiffany King (Alternate)

PPIA Fellowship

Tseganesh Tadele

Lori Younissess

PPIA Public Service Weekend

Lori Younissess

Princeton in Africa

Maria Adamou

Mimi Cottingham (Semi-Finalist)

Alan De Beaufort (Semi-Finalist)

Gabriel Delsol (Semi-Finalist)

Maxine Eyeson (Semi-Finalist)

Natzinet Ghebrenegus (Semi-Finalist)

Glen Gordon (Semi-Finalist)

Elaina Perry (Semi-Finalist)

Emma Prall (Semi-Finalist)

Alaina Rudnick (Semi-Finalist)

Paige Shoemaker (Semi-Finalist)

Princeton in Asia

Alexia Gardner (Semi-Finalist)

Glen Gordon (Semi-Finalist)

Aaron Mohabbat (Semi-Finalist)

Jillian Skonieczka (Semi-Finalist)

Alisha Rajan (Semi-Finalist)

Princeton in Latin America

Kacie Sampson (Semi-Finalist)

Gretchen Cloutier (Semi-Finalist)

Alyson Woolley (Waitlisted)

Rangel Fellowship

Tiffany King

Rangel Summer Enrichment Program

Janelle Gray

Dan Nguyen (Alternate)

United States Institute of Peace and the Minerva Research Initiative’s Peace Scholar Fellowship

Yumna Fatima

The Elliott School of International Affairs' Visiting Scholar in the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies

Min Jung Kim

Ford Dissertation Fellowship

Veronica Limeberry

John McCain Award

Balazs Martonffy

USIP’s Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship

Noah Rosen