Congratulations to our SIS awardees of 2021!

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

SIS Winners of University Awards

President's Award

Dayana Sarova

Outstanding Service Award

Saliho Toure

Bruce Hughes Award

Lori Younissess

Charles Van Way Award

Clifford Young

Kinsman-Hurst Award

Inuri Abeysekara

SIS Faculty Awards

SIS Distinguished Service Award

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson

SIS Scholar/Teacher of the Year

Lauren Carruth

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

Megan Stewart

Naomi Moland

SIS Outstanding Contributions to Fostering Collaborative Scholarship

Judith Shapiro

Matthew Taylor

William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching

Yang Zhang

Eric Novotny

Darrell Randall Award for Outstanding Service to the University Community

Elizabeth Thompson

Aaron Boesenecker

F. Gunther Eyck Award

Rachel Sullivan Robinson

Outstanding SIS Faculty Mentor Award

Elizabeth Cohn

SIS Outstanding Faculty Mentor and SIS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award

Randolph Persaud

Outstanding SIS Faculty Administrator

Boaz Atzili

Outstanding SIS Teaching in an Adjunct Faculty Position

Melissa Sinclair

SIS Staff Awards

Outstanding Service to Students

David Fletcher, Senior Career Advisor

Sofia White, Assistant Director of Career Outreach and Programming

Outstanding Team Player

Amy Newell, Assistant Director of Operations and Academic Services for Online Programs

Julia Ziegler, Assistant Director of Operations and Student Engagement for Online Programs

Outstanding Service to the University Community

Rebecca Coughlin, Associate Director of SIS Graduate Enrollment Management

Outstanding Service to the SIS Community

Christine Gettings, Director of International Programs and Partnerships

Outstanding Performance

Delaney Ward, Academic Program Coordinator for GEP, ID, and IER

SIS Special Recognition

Donna M. Femenella, Reserves Coordinator at the University Library

SIS Undergraduate Student Awards

Inspire the Professor

Alexander Mezzetti

Outstanding Academic Achievement

Jordan Park

Creative Work in International Studies

Dhanya Rao

Exemplary Original Research

Evan Margiotta

Lead, Serve, Make a Difference

Colby Vine

Frank Willis Scotton Award

Fareha Abid

Pittman B. Potter Award

Griffin Diven

Charles H. Heimsath Award

Claire Mills

Thematic Area Award: Peace, Global Security, and Conflict Resolution

Pablo Molina Asensi

Thematic Area Award: Justice, Ethics, and Human Rights

Syeda Bokhari

Thematic Area Award: Global & Comparative Governance

Andrew Morgan

Thematic Area Award: Global Economy

Yusuf Benmira

Thematic Area Award: Environmental Sustainability and Global Health

Caroline Grossman

Thematic Area Award: Foreign Policy and National Security

Isabella Baker

Thematic Area Award: Global Inequality and Development

Grace Guber

Thematic Area Award: Identity, Race, Gender, and Culture

Janelle Gray

Regional Focus Award: South and Central Asia

Aarushi Sahejpal

Regional Focus Award: East Asia and Pacific

Jennifer Fei

Regional Focus Award: Europe and Eurasia

Chann Austine Cortes

Regional Focus Award: MENA

Benjamin Holtzman

Regional Focus Award: Sub-Saharan Africa

Isabella Dixon

Regional Focus Award: Western Hemisphere

Jeremy McLane

SIS Graduate Student Awards

Goodman Award for Outstanding Academic and/or Scholarly Performance, SIS-Wide

Marie Fares

Outstanding Professional and/or Policy Contribution, SIS-Wide

Megan DeTura

Award for Outstanding Service On-Campus, SIS-Wide

Katherine Lee

Award for Outstanding Service Off-Campus, SIS-Wide

Tova Gold

Goodman Award for Outstanding Academic and/or Scholarly Performance

Ihechiluru Ezuruonye

Valery Valdez Pinto

Shakhlo Khasanova

Philip Butler

Tiffany Schwartz

Lisa Johnson

Marilluly Peraza

Nicola Rampino

Tyler Dewey

John Williams II

Jamie Curtis

Benjamin Harbaugh

Award for Outstanding Professional and/or Policy Contribution

Wazim Mowla

Jamie Fortin

Lia Cheek

Eric Kim

Jeffrey Simmons

Ximena Zepeda McCollum

Cameron Wheeler

Alexis Rossetti

Ashleigh Kong

Yohanis Lamere

Astrid Price

Award for Outstanding Service On-Campus

Katherine Vera

Sandra Asieduah

Jasmine Porter

Danya Hamad

Tong Hour Ou

Robert Smith

Award for Outstanding Service Off-Campus

Madeline Olden

Lethaniel Norton-Pickney

Carlos Urmeneta

Mahmoud Hamid Award for Professional Contribution

Emma Marks

Pittman Potter Award for Outstanding Academic and/or Scholarly Performance

Amanda Grau

SIS Doctoral Student Awards

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

Brandon Sims

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

Anastassiya Perevezentseva

Award for Excellence in Research Assistance

Nichole Grossman

SIS Winners of External Awards

Anna Sobol Levy Fellowship

Heidi Caisachana

CBYX for Young Professionals

Andrew Morgan

Taylor Smith

Jo Desmone (Alternate)

Cosmos Scholars

Matthew Timmerman

Critical Language Scholarship

Kayla Berg

Ihechiluru Ezuruonye

Mackenzie Hale

Benjamin Holtzman

Kate Jasenski

Alexander Kuehl

Isabel Miramontes

Edgar Palomino

Natasha Riegle

Chloe Bohn (Alternate)

Milena Bozovic (Alternate)

Evan Gertler (Alternate)

James Kwon (Alternate)

Sarah Velez (Alternate)

Sarkis Zoubian (Alternate)

Cultural Vistas Virtual Internship

Caroline Baker

Fund for Education Abroad Scholarship

Dalia Haymov

Gaither Junior Fellows Program

Alex Csanadi

Corwin Dark (Finalist)

Gilman Scholarship - Spring 2020 Application

Victoria Blymier

Chantalle Garcia

Martha Kamioner

Ricardo Negron

Reese Phillips

Eduarda Serafim

Gilman Scholarship - Fall 2020 Application

Sage Coates-Farley

Colby Vine

Samantha Smith (Alternate)

Killam Fellowship

Brian Johnson

Marshall Scholarship

Ornella Baganizi (Alternate)

Morgenthau Followship

Matthew Hartwell

National Military Intelligence Foundation Scholarship

Madeline Olden

Pickering Fellowship

Samantha Keller (Finalist)

Karanina Bhattacharjee (Alternate)

PPIA Fellowship

Ricardo Vergel Negron

Winaly Simpson

Ana Pereyra Baron

Tara Rao (Alternate)

Rangel Fellowship

Zizhan "Azua" Luo

Dan "Tammy" Nguyen

Rhodes Scholarship - Global

Dayana Sarova (Finalist)

Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize

Manaswini Ramkumar

Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship

Matthew Hartwell

Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft

Manaswini Ramkumar

Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategies

Manaswini Ramkumar

USIP Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship

Yumna Fatima

Visiting Scholar at Institute for Security and Conflict Studies

Min Jung Kim

Wenner-Green Dissertation Field Grant

Julie Radoski