Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Awards Ceremony 2021
On May 22, 2021, the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics presented FLL majors in the Class of 2021 with its traditional awards. Graduating seniors were selected for these awards by the faculty in each FLL program for their academic achievement, intellectual rigor, and service to the FLL and its goals.
We encourage students, faculty, family, and their friends to watch the video award ceremony, which premiered on Facebook on Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 2 p.m.
We congratulate all of the Spring 2021 FLL graduates, especially those who were honored during the ceremony. The awards presented during the FLL Awards Ceremony can be seen below.
Small Program Language Minors Awards for Excellence
Award for Excellence in Modern Greek
Lixinyu Xu
Award for Excellence in Persian
Ariana L. Roberts
Award for Excellence in Turkish
Jonathan A. Bigler-Lisch
Certificates For Outstanding Academic Achievement
Chinese
Katherine Isabelle Eisert
Elaine Lu Yi Wong
Classics
Caroline Elizabeth Adams
Sophie S. Chen
Danielle Marie Devillier
Michael Joseph Healy
Eve Carol Inglis
Katherine Alexandra Jovanovski
Barbara Taylor McDuffee
Michael J. M. Riga
French
Falyn Leigh Dwyer
Olivia Whitman Giacomo
Sarah Elsa Kurzweil
Karena Puakai Landler
Hannah Broach Levine
German
Lucas Verardi Dal Corso Roos
Italian
Peter Luca Cabot DiGiovanni
Luke Patrick Ross
Linguistics
Natalie Jenny Bazata
Brianna Nicole Gist
Katherine Alexandra Jovanovski
Camille Rose Kurtz
Emilio José Luna
Cristina Maria Lopez
Lixinyu Xu
Russian
Benjamin Neil Falley
Carl P. Tulevech Jr.
Courtney Lee Wolf
Spanish
Isabella Grace Antonetti
Ella Susan Capen
Delaney Meredith Corcoran
Emma Nicole Garvey
Andres G. Gonzalez
Talia Kaptanoglu
Jason Edward Radvany
Isabel Phinney Short
Henry L. Stanton
Leslie María Tellería
The Martha Khoury Semaan Memorial Award
Ivana Gabriele-Smith
The Dean Robert Lado Medal
Olivia Brown Stevens
The Goethe Institut Award
Ethan Missigman
The Alliance Française Award
Olivia Whitman Giacomo
The Italian Cultural Society – Cesarina Horing Award
Danielle Kwon Guida
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
Samuel Gerard Cormier
Regent’s Citations
Tiffany Barajas
Olivia Whitman Giacomo
Asha Krishnan
Amerisa Christina Kyriazis
Karena Puakai Landler
Hannah Broach Levine
Leslie María Tellería
Carl P. Tulevech
The Regent’s Medal
Falyn Leigh Dwyer
Senior Honors Theses
Natalie Jenny Bazata
Twitter language ideologies about feminine declension of occupational nouns in Italian
Mentor: Professor Anna De Fina
Jonathan Andrew Bigler-Lisch
“Queer” and the construction and maintenance of identity, power, and ideology in interaction
Mentor: Professor Marissa Fond
Samuel Gerard Cormier
El archivo vivo: El poder reconstructivo del Biodrama
Mentor: Professor Gwen Kirkpatrick
Analena Grayce DeKlotz
Ideologies of Securitization in Collegiate Arabic Instruction
Mentor: Professor Nicholas Subtirelu
Ivana Gabriele-Smith
Love in Sahar Khalifeh’s Novels
Mentor: Professor Elliott Colla
Brianna Nicole Gist
The Impacts and Perceptions of French in Francophone Africa: A Sociolinguistic Study of Morocco and Cameroon
Mentor: Professor Natalie Schilling
MacKenzie S. Grimm
LGBTQ+ Identities Amongst South African Language Communities
Mentor: Professor Cynthia Gordon
Danielle Kwon Guida
The image of Milan in the Italian Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s
Mentor: Professor Gianni Cicali
Sasha Jovanovski
Vratničći: A descriptive grammar
Mentor: Professor Alison Biggs
Camille Rose Kurtz
“Pero, like”: Examining discourse marker frequency, function, and linguistic presentation as a measure for L2 Spanish proficiency
Mentor: Professor Margaret Malone
Sarah Elizabeth Reed
Dark Winter Nights and the Alaskan Identity in Narrative
Mentor: Professor Anna De Fina
Olivia Brown Stevens
L2 French Speaking Proficiency Gains During Study Abroad: A CAF Analysis
Mentor: Professor Margaret Malone
Carl P. Tulevech
A Linguistic Comparison of Lemko Rusyn to Other Slavic Languages
Mentors: Professors Bradley Gorski & Elena Boudovskaia