Awards & Fellowships
2025-2026 | 2024-2025 | 2023-2024 | 2022-2023 | 2021-2022 | 2020-2021 | 2019-2020 | 2018-2019 | 2017-2018 | 2016-2017 | 2015-2016 | 2014-2015 | 2013-2014 | 2012-2013 | 2011-2012 | 2010-2011 | 2009-2010 | 2008-2009 | 2007-2008
2025-2026
- Juliana Sexauer, 2025 Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) Graduate Research Fellowship!
- Grace Christensen, Joshua Brailler, Matthew Drew, Ray Buckner, Kristen Balzer, Izzak Novak, Phil Davis, Liza Bernstein, Pema McLaughlin, Dhondup Rekjong and Parker Blair, The Conference Travel Grant from The Graduate School!
- Liza Bernstein, 2025-2026 Crown Fellowship from the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies!
2024-2025
- Ray Buckner, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship!
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Yannick Lambert, 2025 Summer Language Grant from The Graduate School!
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Juliana Sexauer, 2025 Summer Language Grant from The Graduate School!
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Cara Snajczuk, 2025 Summer Language Grant from The Graduate School!
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Lugyal Bum, 2025 Summer Language Grant from The Graduate School!
- Ray Buckner, Khyentse Foundation PhD Scholarship, awarded a grant of $5,000!
- Dhondup T. Rekjong, Khyentse Foundation PhD Scholarship for the project titled “Silence and Speech: Transmitting Tibetan Buddhism under Chinese Colonialism”, awarded a grant of $5,000!
2023-2024
- Dhondup T. Rekjong, 2024 Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- Nisheeta Jagtiani, Northwestern's South Asia Research Forum Grant
- Izzak Novak, 2024 Northwestern-SSRC DPD Fellowship
- Matthew Drew, Buffett Summer Language Training Award, Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal, and Buffett Pre-Dissertation International Summer Research Grant, Chengdu, China
- Joshua Brallier, Northwestern's Presidential Fellowship
2022-2023
- Ray Buckner, 2023 Northwestern-SSRC DPD Fellowship
- Amanda Gvozden, Interdisciplinary Graduate Assistantship for Legal Studies for 2022-23
- Udita Das, Northwestern Summer Language Grant from The Graduate School, Summer 2023
2021-2022
- Matthew Drew, Northwestern Summer Language Grant from The Graduate School, Summer 2022
- Nisheeta Jagtiani, The AAR 2021 International Dissertation Research Grant
- Dhondup Rekjong, Dalai Lama Graduate Scholarship for 2021-22
- Miranda Smith, China-U.S. Scholars Program (CUSP) 2021-22
2020-2021
- Somtsobum, Northwestern Summer Language Grant from The Graduate School, Summer 2021
- Ray Buckner, Northwestern Summer Language Grant from The Graduate School, Summer 2021
- Dhondup Rekjong, Northwestern Summer Language Grant from The Graduate School, Summer 2021
- Nisheeta Jagtiani, Northwestern Graduate Research Grant from The Graduate School
- Darcie Price-Wallace, 2020-21 Research Scholarship from Khyentse Foundation
- Dhondup Rekjong, Dalai Lama Graduate Scholarship for 2020-21
- Eda Uca, Graduate Assistant position with HEFNU (Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University) for 2020-21
2019-2020
- Courtney Rabada, Graduate Assistantship position in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
- Marlon Millner, School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University - Summer 2019, New York
- Marlon Millner, Graduate Internship in the WCAS Arch Scholars program for the 2020-2021 academic year
- Matthew Smith, Louisville Institution Dissertation Fellowship
- Miranda Smith, Fulbright Fellowship in Qinghai, China
2018-2019
- James Hill, Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program Participant.
- Ashley King, Humanities Without Walls Consortium Graduate Student Fellow
- Jeffrey Wheatley, Frankie Graduate fellowship from Alice Kaplan Institute of Humanities
2017-2018
- Darcie Price-Wallace, Fulbright Fellowship in India.
- Hannah Tebbetts, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
2016-2017
- Jennifer Callaghan, John Tracy Elis Dissertation Award for her dissertation project “Critical Mass: the fall and rise of Latin in the long U.S. Catholic Liturgical Movement.”
2015-2016
- Darcie Price-Wallace, Northwestern Summer Language Grant from The Graduate School
- Benjamin Ricciardi, DAAD Intensive Language Course Scholarship for this summer
- Teddy Nakate, EDGS Graduate Student Summer Funding grant from the Buffet Institute and a GRG grant from Northwestern
2014-2015
- Joel Harrison, DAAD grant to study in Germany in the summer
- Alyssa Henning, Crown Family Graduate Students’ Fellowship
- Candace Kohli, Fulbright Student Award to Germany
- Stephanie Wolfe, John Danforth Center's dissertation fellowship
2013-2014
- Kristi Bain, Mellon Desertion Year Fellowship 2013/2014
- Vanessa Crosby, Getty Pre-Doctoral fellowship from Getty Research Institute, LA 2013/2014
- Lynn Jencks, Louisville Dissertation Fellowship 2013/2014
- Candace Kohli, Aarhus University funding to do her research in Denmark 2013/2014
2012-2013
- Kristi Bain, Schallek Fellowship offered by the Medieval Academy and the Richard III Society, American Branch, 2012/2013
- Brian Clites, Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center at Notre Dame, 2012/2013
- Vanessa Crosby, Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center at Notre Dame, 2012/2013
- Matthew Robinson, DAAD research fellowship in Berlin in the Theology Faculty of Humboldt University 2012/2013
2011-2012
- Matthew Cressler, ACHA - John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award, Fall 2011
2010-2011
- Amanda Baugh, Mellon/ ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship - 2010-2011
- Shu-man Chen, Chung-Hwa Institute Fellowship, 2010-2011
- Hayley Glaholt, Culture and Animals Foundation Grant, 2010
- Hayley Glaholt, Gest Fellowship, 2010
- Hayley Glaholt, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium fellowship, 2010
- Hayley Glaholt, A.S.I. Human-Animal Studies Fellowship, 2009
- Kristi Lynn Keuhn, DAAD University Summer Course Grant, Summer 2010
- Jody Moser, Fulbright IIE Award (Rwanda), 2010-11
- Michael David Nichols, ACM Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship program at Ripon College, 2010-11
- Michael David Nichols, Fulbright IIE Award (Sri Lanka), 2010-11 (he didn't accept this award because of the postdoc opportunity)
- Matthew Robinson, Andrew Mellon CES Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowships - 2011 Fellows
- Matthew Robinson, DAAD University Summer Course Grant, Summer 2010
- Abdoulaye Sounaye, NU-TGS Presidential Fellowship, 2011-2013
- Jennifer Sta.Ana, TGS Summer Language Grant & $1500 Tuition Scholarship to attend the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, 2010-2011
2009-2010
- Kristi Bain, NU-TGS Graduate Research Grant, Winter 2009/2010
- Kristi Bain, DAAD University Summer Course Grant, Summer 2010
- Amanda Baugh, NU-TGS Graduate Research Grant, Winter 2009/2010
- Rahma Bavelaar, NU-TGS Summer Language Grant, Summer 2010
- Kristin Doll, Fulbright IIE Award (France), 2009-10
- Hayley Glaholt, A.S.I. Human-Animal Studies Fellowship, 2009
- Tina Howe, NU-TGS Summer Language Grant, Summer 2010
- Lynn Jencks, NU-TGS Summer Language Grant, Summer 2010
- Katelyn Mesler, Fulbright IIE Award (Israel), 2009-10
- Matthew Robinson, NU-TGS Summer Language Grant, Summer 2010
- Matthew Robinson, DAAD University Summer Course Grant, Summer 2010
- Michal Raucher, Fulbright IIE Award (Israel), 2009-10
- Abdoulaye Sounaye, NU-TGS Graduate Research Grant, Winter 2009-2010
2008-2009
- Kristin Doll, NU-TGS Graduate Research Grant, Winter 2008/2009
- Hayley Glaholt, NU-TGS Graduate Research Grant, Spring 2008/2009
- Tina Howe, NU-TGS Graduate Research Grant, Spring 2008/2009
- Katelyn Mesler, NU-TGS Presidential Fellowship, 2009-2011
- Jody Moser, NU-TGS Graduate Research Grant, Spring 2009
- Victoria Prussing, NU-WCAS Information Technology Research Grant, 2008
- Victoria Prussing, DAAD Graduate Research Fellowship (Germany), 2008-2009
- Victoria Prussing, Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship (Germany), 2008-2009
2007-2008
- Shu-man Chen, NU-TGS Summer Language Grant, Summer 2008