Congratulations to our SIS awardees of 2022!

• 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

Benjamin Holtzman

Bruce Hughes Award

Taisuke Fox

Harold Johnson Award

Samantha Chai

SIS Faculty Awards

SIS Distinguished Service Award

Eric Novotny

Christine BN Chin

SIS Scholar/Teacher of the Year

Garrett Graddy-Lovelace

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

Adam Auerbach

Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod

SIS Outstanding Contributions to Fostering Collaborative Scholarship

Susanna P. Campbell

Dylan Craig

William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching

Jordanna Matlon

Doga Eralp

Darrell Randall Award for Outstanding Service to the University Community

Carl LeVan

Gina Lambright

F. Gunther Eyck Award

Maria DeJesus

Outstanding SIS Teaching in an Adjunct Faculty Position

Kathleen Morenski

Outstanding Contribution to Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Shadi Mokhtari

SIS Staff Awards

Outstanding Service to Students

Jia Jiang, Senior Director of Graduate Enrollment Management

Outstanding Team Player

Lee France, Academic Program Coordinator for GGPS and USFP

Jessica Meagher, Study Abroad Advisor

Outstanding Service to the SIS Community

Jim Banks, Senior Manager of Facilities Operations

Outstanding Performance

Jessica MacArthur, Academic Advisor

Diana Tetterton, Senior Coordinator for the SIS Undergraduate Program

SIS Special Recognition

Lilian Baeza-Mendoza, Senior Professorial Lecturer in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at CAS

SIS Undergraduate Student Awards

Inspire the Professor

Isaac Fifelski

Outstanding Academic Achievement

Mohammad Al-Mailam

Creative Work in International Studies Research

Piper Neulander

Exemplary Original Research

Houlton Dannenberg

Lead, Serve, Make a Difference

Kyle Homschek

Frank Willis Scotton Award

Colby Vine

Pittman B. Potter Award

Riley Phoenix

Charles H. Heimsath Award

Jacob Brawley

Scott A. Bass Outstanding Scholarship Award

Mohammad Al-Mailam

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

Akhil Bandreddi

Thematic Area Award: Justice, Ethics, and Human Rights

Alexandra Kaiss

Thematic Area Award: Global & Comparative Governance

Alfred DiLissio

Thematic Area Award: Global Economy

Jacob Brawley

Thematic Area Award: Environmental Sustainability and Global Health

Lyla Saxena

Thematic Area Award: Foreign Policy and National Security

Ben Holtzman

Thematic Area Award: Global Inequality and Development

Piper Neulander

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

Hannah Nicole Pell

Regional Focus Award: South and Central Asia

Madeline Scheub

Regional Focus Award: East Asia and Pacific

Cindy Zheng

Regional Focus Award: Europe and Eurasia

Suzie Davis

Regional Focus Award: MENA

Paige Chickering

Regional Focus Award: Sub-Saharan Africa

William Brown

Regional Focus Award: Western Hemisphere

Sophie Egar

SIS Graduate Student Awards

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

Colin Zentmeyer

Outstanding Professional and/or Policy Contribution, SIS-Wide

Maral Niazo

Torgom Zatikian

Award for Outstanding Service On-Campus, SIS-Wide

Nicole Goberrdhan

Award for Outstanding Voluntary Service and/or Activism Off-Campus, SIS-Wide

Sanaa Farid

Pittman Potter B. Potter Award for Outstanding Academic Performance

Maya Tsukazaki (Martin)

Goodman Award for Outstanding Academic and/or Scholarly Performance

Beatrice Neal da Souza

Sarah Higbee-Tindall

Ben Jackson

Daphney Quinn

Alex Neubecker

Kathryn Urban

Connor Spruell

Felipe Herrera

Jonelle Palmer

Luisa Spezia

Emily Tavenner

Samantha Muskat

Ryan Larkin

Outstanding Professional and/or Policy Contribution

Rebecca Dresner

Bridget Ott

Marcel Bolboaca-Negru

Philip Oke-Thomas

Katerina (Kate) Parsons

Outstanding Voluntary Service and/or Activism Off-Campus

Emilio Urteaga

Kyra Jones

Sarkis Zoubian

Giselle Kuri Carrasco

Julia Rivara

Outstanding Voluntary Service and/or Activism On-Campus

Marcela Falck Bados

Reilly Simmons

Harrison Brooks

Cindi Venters

Mahmoud Hamid Award for Professional Service

Eileen Joseph

SIS Doctoral Student Awards

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

Grace Benson

Nichole Grossman

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

Nichole Grossman

Sahil Mathur

Award for Excellence in Research Assistance

Veronica Limeberry

The Mentor Award

Garrett Graddy-Lovelace

SIS Winners of External Awards

Boren Fellowship

Trevor Burton

Melissa Cho

Joshua Jacobson

Wafa Shahid

Sarkis Zoubian

Boren Scholarship

Aisha Jallow (Alternate)

David Leshchiner (Alternate)

Dorothy Condon

Carnegie: Middle East Program

Mohammad Al-Mailam

CBYX Fellowship

Suzanne Davis

Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund for US Alumni

Sophia Celeste Vos

Critical Language Scholarship

Abigail Boteler

Nathaniel Balk

Angelina Freeman

Momal Rizvi (Alternate)

Isabella Baker (Alternate)

Yassine Florez (Alternate)

Emma Gorsuch (Alternate)

Areil Larsen (Alternate)

Kayla Berg (Alternate)

Rachel DeHaemer (Alternate)

Sarkis Zoubian (Alternate)

Fulbright UK Summer Institute

Gianell Lopez

Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship

Isabella Baker

Samantha Chai

Abigail Romm

Marseda Halilaj

Fulbright Study/Research

Alexia Gardner

Benjamin Holtzman (Alternate)

Gilman Scholarship

Michelle Casanova

Erin Ann Enriques

Dalia Haymov

Aneisa Babkir

Adelina Decius

Dalia Haymov

Valentina Rincon

Johnee Wilson

Nicole Butters

Olivia Geveden

Hertog Fellows

Eduardo Castellet Nogues

Samantha Lucy

Killam Scholarship

Angelina Freeman

Pickering Fellowship

Sophia Celeste Vos

PPIA Fellowship

Isaac Fifelski

Daisy Saavedra

Chanuk Thang

Azeezat Salaudeen

PPIA Public Service Weekend

Isaac Fifelski

Rangel Fellowship

Karanina Bhattacharjee (Alternate)

Rhodes Scholarship (Global)

Dayana Sarova (Semi-Finalist)

SALAM Scholarship

Yassine Florez

Sarah Holston

US Teaching Assistantships at Austrian Secondary Schools

Sawyer Moseley