At the April 16 end-of-year celebration, the Humanities Insitute's center directors announced their award winners for the academic year. Undergraduate and graduate students were present to receive certificates for grants, scholarships, paper prizes and graduating with a minor from an affiliated center. Please scroll down for a complete list of award winners from the Humanities Institute's affiliated centers: The Center for Ethnic Studies, Center for Folklore Studies, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Center for the Study of Religion and Melton Center for Jewish Studies.

Center For Ethnic Studies

Interdisciplinary Programs Scholarship

Ianni Acapulco, English

Spring 2024 Travel and Research Grants

Graduate Students 
Annelise Duque, Art 
Anna Freeman, Arts Administration 
Julie Ae Kim, Creative Writing 
Andrew Mitchel, Anthropology 
Nupur Sachdeva, Art Education 
Amy Schofield, Dance 
Charlize Wang, Teaching and Learning 
Irma Zamora, English
Undergraduate Students
Jaquelyn Saldana, Health Sciences

Minor/ GIS Program Graduates

Julian Adam, American Indian Studies minor, Spring 2024 
Xarles Bryan, Latinx Studies minor, Spring 2024 
Roman Cain, American Indian Studies minor, Autumn 2023 
Maxly Gasca, Latinx Studies minor, Spring 2024 
Aline Resende Mello, Latinx Studies GIS, Spring 2024 
Alfonso Roca Suarez, Latinx Studies GIS, Spring 2024

Autumn 2023 Travel and Research Grants

Graduate Students 
Asia Adomanis, History of Art 
Juan Benavides, Social Work 
Chengwei Chen, Anthropology 
Yujie Chen, Dance 
Lauren Miranda, Spanish and Portuguese 
Nupur Sachdeva, Art Education 
Jessica Tjiu, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies 
Derrick Wyman, Higher Education and Student Affairs 
Undergraduate Students 
Sam Cao, Business

Center For Folklore Studies

Spring 2024 Graduate Student Travel Grants

Daisy Ahlstone, Comparative Studies 
Zahra Abedinezhad, Comparative Studies

Dan Barnes Undergraduate Paper Prize

Blaise Reader

Pat Mullens Graduate Paper Prize

Nicholas Booker

Center for the Study of Religion

Spring 2024 Faculty and Graduate Student Research and Travel Grants

Zahra Abedinezhad, graduate student, Comparative Studies 
Bert Harrill, professor, History 
Shima Karimi, graduate student, Spanish and Portuguese 
Kate Kaura, graduate student, Comparative Studies 
Zari Mahmoudi, graduate student, Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures 
Justin Salgado, graduate student, History

Robert L. and Phyllis J. Iles Award for Graduate Study of Myth

Matt Maynard, Classics – "The Haunts of Pan: Wilderness Ecology and Myth"

Autumn 2023 Savko Undergraduate Research Grant

Anais Fernandez Castro, Political Science and Spanish

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Nicholas G. Howe Graduate Student Grants

Andrea Armijos Echeverria, Spanish and Portuguese
Genevieve Berendt, French
Tori Dikeman, English
Emily Eikost, English
Angel Evans, English
Margaret Wilson, History of Art

Barbara A. Hanawalt Award for Outstanding Graduate Essay

Emily Eikost, English – “Consuming Identity in The Vision of MacConglinne and Sir Orfeo“

Stanley J. Kahrl Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Essay

Maya Goldenberg, History – “Bagels: A Gentile Bread with a Jewish Story”

CMRS Major/Minor Program Graduates

Samantha Detwiler, minor, Spring 2024
Jacob Grandstaff, major, Spring 2024
Matthew Raskin, minor, Spring 2024
Truman Rudloff, minor, Autumn 2023
 

Melton Center for Jewish Studies

The Charlotte Susan Roth Memorial Fund Essay Contest

Joshua Kosimov, Statistics – “On the Influence of Jewish Folk Legend on the English Ghost Story” 

Adam Rahl, German and Biochemistry – “Moral Messaging in Oral History: Investigating the Role of Die Schönheit in Ernst Walter Schwarze’s Testimony as a Holocaust Survivor”

The Leah Metchnick Godofsky and Martin R. Godofsky Scholarship of JewishColumbus

Ethan Ostrov, History and Political Science

George and Emily Severinghaus Beck Scholarship for Yiddish Study

Isaiah Back-Gaal, Creative Writing