The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is pleased to present the SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship awardees for academic year 2026-27.
SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships
These fellowships provide advanced doctoral students with an academic year of support to complete their dissertations. Evaluation criteria includes the quality of the proposal; the feasibility of the project; the potential of the project to advance the field of study in which it is proposed and make an original and significant contribution to it; the nominee’s overall academic record and potential for scholarly achievement; and prior fellowship support. Eligible candidates are nominated by their departments.
- Eunyoung Yang, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, “Between Mexico and the Philippines: The Pacific Ocean as a Site of Cultural and Social Construction in the Eighteenth Century"
- Martine Gallardo, Department of Linguistics, "Dominant Language Transfer vs. Bilingual Restructuring in Heritage Bilinguals"
- Maialen Casquete de la Puente, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, "How vowel harmony develops: The phonologization of vowel tensing and laxing in Granada Spanish"
- Joseph Baronovic, Department of Classics, "ἑκοῦσα θνῄσκω – ‘I die of my own accord’: Studies on Suicide in Greek Tragedy"
- Jesse Keruskin, Department of French & Italian, “Cosmologies of the Body: Ecology, the Entangled Human and Life Beyond Earth in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Literature"
- Ragini Chakraborty, Department of Comparative & World Literature, "Sutured with a Barbed-Wire: Memory, Gender, and Necropolitics in the context of the 1947 Partition"
- Jude Mensah, Department of French & Italian, "Machine Translators as a Mediation Tool for Language Learning: A Mixed Methods Study"
- Vaughn Fenton, Department of Classics, "Carthage’s Lost Wars: Carthaginian Military Conflicts Outside of the Punic and Sicilian Wars"
We would also like to recognize the winner of this year's Douglas A. Kibee Prize.
Douglas A. Kibbee Prize
The Kibbee Prize was created by colleagues, friends, and students of Douglas Kibbee in honor of his distinguished career and service as the first director of the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics on the occasion of his retirement in 2010. This prize is awarded annually to the recipient of an SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship whose dissertation project is judged by the school’s executive committee to be the most outstanding.
- Eunyoung Yang, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, “Between Mexico and the Philippines: The Pacific Ocean as a Site of Cultural and Social Construction in the Eighteenth Century"