The Graduate College's Illinois Distinguished Fellowship program is intended to help the University of Illinois recruit exceptional applicants into its doctoral programs. Approximately 20 awards are made, given sufficient funding, and each award provides three years of support. Below are some of the awardees in SLCL.

2019-20    

♦ Fan Wu, East Asian Languages and Cultures 

2018-19        

♦ Nicholas Rudman, Classics 

♦ Meredith Francisco, Comparative and World Literature

♦ Zhang Yuan, East Asian Languages and Cultures

2017-18

♦ Ashley Weed, Classics

2016-17    

♦ Yinglun Sun, Linguistics

♦ Emily Chen, Linguistics

♦ Daria Semenova, Slavic Languages and Literatures

2014-15

♦ Kailen Shantz, Linguistics                     

♦ Sarah Little, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese