Faculty Awards and Honors
Linguistics Fund Internal Grant
The Linguistics department encourages Linguistics faculty to apply for internal grants when they are available.
Howard and Frances Nostrand Endowed Professorship
The endowed professorship was established in 2004 by a $500,000 gift from Howard and Frances Nostrand, intended to promote language and culture as a new discipline, and to underscore the need for cultural competence. Prof. Nostrand chaired the UW Department of Romance Languages and Literature from 1939 to 1964, retiring from teaching in 1981.
Royalty Research Fund
Linguistics faculty have been awarded the Royalty Research Fund, a competitive awards program that provides research support to University of Washington faculty. The UW recognizes their research has high probability of generating important new scholarly understandings, materials, or resources, significant data or information, or essential instrumentation resources that are likely to significantly advance the reputation of the university, lead to external funding, or lead to the development of a new technology.
Graduate Student Awards and Honors
Major National Student Awards
| Recipient |
Description |
| Alexander Sugar |
Ilse D. Cirtautas Fellowship, 2017-2018 |
| Emily Ahn |
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2017-2021 |
| Olga Zamaraeva |
Labex EFL Mobility Grant, 2016 |
| Alexander Sugar |
Confucius China Studies Program Joint Research Ph.D. Fellowship, 2016-2017 |
| Alli Germain |
Fulbright Scholarship, 2016-2017 |
| Olga Zamaraeva |
Microsoft Research Women's Research Fellowship, 2015-2016 |
| Rachael Tatman |
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2014-2017 |
| Sarala Puthuval |
Fulbright Scholarship, 2014-2015 |
| Joshua Hou |
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2009-2010 |
| Galen Basse |
Fulbright Scholarship, 2008-2009 |
UW Graduate Awards
Linguistics graduate students have been recognized by the graduate school for exceptional work.
| Recipient |
Description |
| C.M. Downey |
Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship, 2023-2024 |
| Naomi Tachikawa Shapiro |
Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship, 2022-2023 |
| Molly FitzMorris |
Issac Alhadeff Sephardic Studies Graduate Fellowship, 2017-2018 |
| Laura Panfili |
Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship, 2017-2018 |
| Sanghoun Song |
Graduate School Presidential Disseration Fellowship, 2013-2014 |
| Justin Goodenkauf |
Fritz/Boeing Graduate Fellowship for International Research, 2013-2014 |
| Sarala Puthuval |
Fritz/Boeing Graduate Fellowship for International Research, 2013-2014 |
| Darren Tanner |
Dingwall Dissertation Award, 2010-2011 |
Li Fang-Kuei & Hsu Ying Graduate Fellowship Award
In honor of the distinguished linguist Professor Li Fang-Kuei, who taught in the Department of Asian Languages & Literature from 1949 to 1969, and his wife Hsu Ying, this fellowship was awarded annually from 2007-2015 to an outstanding graduate student studying Chinese linguistics at the University of Washington.
| Recipient |
Year |
| Sarala Puthuval |
2015-2016 |
| Yin Li |
2011-2012 |
| Amy McNamara |
2010-2011 |
| Chak-Lam Yip |
2009-2010 |
Ryan Neale Cross Memorial Fellowship
The Ryan Neale Cross Memorial Fellowship to support students studying computational linguistics with the goal of improving accessibility through assistive technology. It continues to support students by generous donations to the fellowship fund.
| Recipient |
Year |
| Crystal Kendrick |
2022-2023 |
| Hillel Steinmetz |
2021-2022 |
| Cady Gansen |
2019-2020 |
| Allison Dodds |
2018-2019 |
CLMS Scholarships
The Linguistics department, in conjunction with Continuum College, offers a number of scholarships for incoming CLMS students based on financial need and academic merit.
| Recipient |
Year |
| Paula Cortes |
2023 |
| Emma McKibbin |
2023 |
| Mariana Graterol-Fuenmayor |
2022 |
| Julia Mainzinger |
2022 |
| Shengqi Zhu |
2021 |
| Dolapo Martins |
2020 |
| Rosetta Hanako Pendleton |
2020 |
| Sophia Chan |
2019 |
| Abdulkadir Gundogdu |
2019 |
| Martin Horst |
2019 |
| Emma Bateman |
2018 |
| Avijit Vajpayee |
2018 |
| Weifeng Jin |
2017 |
| Brian Moran |
2017 |
| Melina Koukoutchos |
2016 |
| Elizabeth Nielsen |
2016 |
| Luke Willson |
2016 |
| John Dodson |
2015 |
| Martin Horn |
2015 |
| Anca Burducea |
2014 |
| Ceara K. Chewning |
2014 |
| Ryan C. Martin |
2014 |
| Antariksh Bothale |
2013 |
| Claire Jaja |
2013 |
| Sean Wibel |
2013 |
| John Gilmer |
2012 |
| Joseph Kaufmann |
2012 |
| Kathryn Nichols |
2012 |
| Stefan Behr |
2011 |
| James White |
2011 |
| Ryan N. Cross |
2010 |
| Chase A. Hermsen |
2010 |
| Joshua F. Lutes |
2010 |
| Jason L. Shaw |
2010 |
Graduate Research Excellence Awards
Linguistics department faculty nominate advanced PhD candidates for graduate student research awards, intended to acknowledge the exceptional work from these candidates as they work to complete their degree.
| Recipient |
Year |
| C.M. Downey |
2022 |
| Ted Kyoungsirk Key |
2022 |
| Angelina McMillan-Major |
2022 |
| Amandalynne Paullada |
2021 |
| Naomi Tachikawa Shapiro |
2021 |
| Yuanhe Tian |
2021 |
| Benjamin Jones |
2020 |
| Jiahui Huang |
2020 |
| Anna Moroz |
2020 |
| Kristen Howell |
2019 |
| Courtney Mansfield |
2019 |
| Olga Zamaraeva |
2019 |
| Nicole Chartier |
2018 |
| Kirby Conrod |
2018 |
| David Inman |
2018 |
| Alli Germain |
2017 |
| Rik Kedziorski |
2017 |
| Alec Sugar |
2017 |
| Esther Le Grezause |
2016 |
| Marina Oganyan |
2016 |
| Sarala Puthuval |
2016 |
| Michael Goodman |
2015 |
| Katie Manlove |
2015 |
| Russell Hugo |
2015 |
| Sophie Ahn |
2014 |
| Valerie Freeman |
2014 |
| Yin Li |
2014 |
| Daniel McCloy |
2013 |
| Justin Goodenkauf |
2012 |
| Naoko Komoto |
2011 |
| Steven Moran |
2010 |
| Julia Miller |
2009 |
| Michael Scanlon |
2008 |
| Darren Tanner |
2007 |