Body

SLCL invites nominations for the Dissertation Completion Fellowship, which provides advanced doctoral students with an academic year of support to complete their dissertations. Eligible candidates are nominated by their departments.

The fellowship is meant to facilitate timely completion of the PhD; therefore, nominees must be able to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure, and no later than the last day of August of the year after being awarded the fellowship.

The fellowship provides $25,000 (effective August 16, 2024), payable in either 9- or 12-month installments. It may not be held concurrently with any other fellowships, employment, or grants. The fellowship offer must be accepted in the terms in which it is offered.

The school’s executive committee is charged with selecting the dissertation completion award recipients. Nominees must be in a position to complete their dissertations within the fellowship period. Complete application instructions are posted here

  • Student deadline to submit to department - turn in all application materials to DGS by deadline indicated by department.
  • Department deadline to submit to SLCL - send completed student application and departmental nomination to slclgradservices@illinois.edu on or before March 7, 2024.

The fellowship is supported by the generosity of Donald and Barbara Smalley and Edward McBroom.

Past Recipients

2023-2024

Julien Berthelon (Department of French and Italian)
Ping-Lin Chuang (Department of Linguistics) 
Zachary Hader (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Nicholas Rudman (Department of Classics)
 Lucía Sánchez-Gilbert (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Katie VanDyne (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)

2022-2023

Mary Casey (Department of Comparative and World Literature)
Zhi-Ling Lien, (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures) 
Lujun Guo (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)
John Slattery (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Wafa Abdulla (Department of Linguistics)
Gorrety Wawire Department of Linguistics)
Miren Anton Lobato (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)

2021-2022

 Claire Baytas (Department of Comparative and World Literature)
 Ander Beristain Murillo (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) 
 Eider Extebarria Zuluaga (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) 
 Ewa Kuras (Department of Comparative and World Literature)
 Nicolas Portugal (Department of French and Italian)
 Taraneh Sanei (Department of Linguistics)
 Daria Semenova (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)

2020-21 

♦ Jone Vicente Urrutia (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Diana Sacilowski (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Asiya Ikhnsanova (Department of Comparative and World Literature)
♦ Christopher Gipson (Department of Classics)
Shaodan Zhang (Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures)
Francesco Ferrari (Department of French and Italian)

2019-20

♦ Johannes Froehlich (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)
♦ Adam Kozak (Department of Classics)
♦ Amanda Rector (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
♦ Pierpaolo Spagnolo (Department of French and Italian)
♦ Wenqi Yang (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures)

2018-19

♦ Marina Filipovic (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Patrick Drackley (Department of Linguistics)
Liz Moreno Chuquen (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Meagan Smith (Department of Comparative and World Literature)
Nicholas Strole (Department of French and Italian)

2017-18

♦ Lydia Catedral (Department of Linguistics)
Emily DiFilippo (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
♦ Mark Frank (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Orestis Karatzoglou (Department of Classics)

2016-17

Adrian Anderson (Department of Classics)
♦ Jing Chen (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Sharif Karmizad (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Kate Lyons (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Matthew Nelson (Department of Comparative and World Literature)
Jessica Sciubba (Department of French and Italian)

2015-16

Priscilla Charrat  (Department of French and Italian)
♦ Weija Du (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Iftikhar Haider (Department of Linguistics)
Lauren Hansen (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)
♦ Myeong Hyeon Kim (Department of Linguistics)

2014-15

Jeffrey Elliott (Department of Comparative and World Literature)
Yun Yao (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Brian Hunt (Department of French and Italian)
Lisa Burner (Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
Irina Avkhimovich (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Rania Al-Sabbagh (Department of Linguistics)
Amy Norgard (Department of Classics)