Complete application instructions are posted here.
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, 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.
- 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 6, 2026.
The fellowship is supported by the generosity of Donald and Barbara Smalley and Edward McBroom.
Past Recipients
2024-2025
♦ Soraya Cipolla (Department of French & Italian)
♦ Julia Gorham (Department of French & Italian)
♦ Mai Mohamed Eida (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Nobuto Sato (Department of Comparative & World Literature)
2023-2024
♦ Julien Berthelon (Department of French & Italian)
♦ Ping-Lin Chuang (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Zachary Hader (Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures)
♦ Nicholas Rudman (Department of Classics)
♦ Lucía Sánchez-Gilbert (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
♦ Katie VanDyne (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
2022-2023
♦ Mary Casey (Program in Comparative & World Literature)
♦ Zhi-Ling Lien, (Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures)
♦ Lujun Guo (Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures)
♦ John Slattery (Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures)
♦ Wafa Abdulla (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Gorrety Wawire Department of Linguistics)
♦ Miren Anton Lobato (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
2021-2022
♦ Claire Baytas (Program in Comparative & World Literature)
♦ Ander Beristain Murillo (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
♦ Eider Extebarria Zuluaga (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
♦ Ewa Kuras (Program in Comparative & World Literature)
♦ Nicolas Portugal (Department of French & Italian)
♦ Taraneh Sanei (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Daria Semenova (Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures)
2020-21
♦ Jone Vicente Urrutia (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
♦ Diana Sacilowski (Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures)
♦ Asiya Ikhnsanova (Program in Comparative & World Literature)
♦ Christopher Gipson (Department of Classics)
♦ Shaodan Zhang (Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures)
♦ Francesco Ferrari (Department of French & Italian)
2019-20
♦ Johannes Froehlich (Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures)
♦ Adam Kozak (Department of Classics)
♦ Amanda Rector (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
♦ Pierpaolo Spagnolo (Department of French & Italian)
♦ Wenqi Yang (Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures)
2018-19
♦ Marina Filipovic (Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures)
♦ Patrick Drackley (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Liz Moreno Chuquen (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
♦ Meagan Smith (Program in Comparative & World Literature)
♦ Nicholas Strole (Department of French & Italian)
2017-18
♦ Lydia Catedral (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Emily DiFilippo (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
♦ Mark Frank (Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures)
♦ Orestis Karatzoglou (Department of Classics)
2016-17
♦ Adrian Anderson (Department of Classics)
♦ Jing Chen (Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures)
♦ Sharif Karmizad (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Kate Lyons (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Matthew Nelson (Program in Comparative & World Literature)
♦ Jessica Sciubba (Department of French & Italian)
2015-16
♦ Priscilla Charrat (Department of French & Italian)
♦ Weija Du (Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures)
♦ Iftikhar Haider (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Lauren Hansen (Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures)
♦ Myeong Hyeon Kim (Department of Linguistics)
2014-15
♦ Jeffrey Elliott (Program in Comparative & World Literature)
♦ Yun Yao (Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures)
♦ Brian Hunt (Department of French & Italian)
♦ Lisa Burner (Department of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese)
♦ Irina Avkhimovich (Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures)
♦ Rania Al-Sabbagh (Department of Linguistics)
♦ Amy Norgard (Department of Classics)