Awardees
2021
Academic Year: Bangla Rumassah Chohan (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Alexandra Ciolac (UC Berkeley); Petra Lamberson (UC Berkeley); Urdu Britt Leake (UC Berkeley), Sarah Merchant (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Urdu Rachel Hirsch (Harvard University)
2020
Academic Year: Hindi: Britt Leake (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit: Alexandra Ciolac (UC Berkeley), Gideon Enz (UC Berkeley). Telugu: Anjali Kantharuban (UC Berkeley), Bhumi Purohit (UC Berkeley). Urdu: Andrew Kerr (UC San Diego)
Summer: Assamese Derrika Hunt (UC Berkeley); Bengali Devin Choudhury (UC Berkeley), Patrick DeSutter (UC Berkeley); Hindi Shreya Kareti (UC Berkeley), Urdu Eliza Hollingsworth (UC Berkeley)
2019
Academic Year: Bengali Patrick DeSutter (UC Berkeley); Hindi Sarah Manchanda (UC Berkeley), Gauthami Penakalapati (UC Berkeley); Panjabi Ravleen Kaur (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Gideon Enz (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Assamese Derrika Hunt (UC Berkeley); Bengali Devin Choudhury (UC Berkeley); Hindi Arianna Pemberton (UC Berkeley); Malayalam Brent Otto (UC Berkeley); Pashto Nicole Ferreira (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Gideon Enz (UC Berkeley); Urdu Elizabeth Gobbo (UC Berkeley)
2018 | AY | Bengali | Devin Choudhury (UC Berkeley), Patrick DeSutter (UC Berkeley) |
Hindi | Julia Nee (UC Berkeley) | ||
Sanskrit | Maxwell Brandstadt (UC Berkeley), Gideon Enz (UC Berkeley), Petra Lamberson (UC Berkeley) | ||
Tamil | Rabindra Willford (UC Berkeley) | ||
Summer | Bengali | Devin Choudhury (UC Berkeley) | |
Hind | Lauren Nippoldt (UC San Diego), Nicole Price (University of Kansas) | ||
Malayalam | Lisa Brooks (UC Berkeley) | ||
Sanskrit | Gideon Enz (UC Berkeley) | ||
Tamil | Keith Cantu (UC Santa Barbara) | ||
2017 | AY | Hindi | Tara Gonsalves (UC Berkeley), Sohini Pillai (UC Berkeley) |
Sanskrit | Max Brandstadt (UC Berkeley), Hannibal Taubes (UC Berkeley) | ||
Tamil | Ned Dostaler (UC Berkeley) | ||
Urdu | Rachael Hyland (UC Berkeley) | ||
Summer | Hindi | Sarah Manchanda (UC Berkeley), Samuel Cushman (UC Santa Cruz) | |
Malayalam | Brent Otto (UC Berkeley), Lisa Brooks (UC Berkeley) | ||
Panjabi | Nick Randhawa (UC Berkeley), Rishi Khalsa (UC Berkeley) | ||
Sanskrit | Jessica Merritt (Indiana University-Bloomington) | ||
Tamil | Ned Dostaler (UC Berkeley), Keith Cantu (UC Santa Barbara) | ||
2016 | AY | Hindi | Katherine Harloe (UC Berkeley) |
Bengali | Rachael Hyland (UC Berkeley) | ||
Persian | Nicole Ferreira (UC Berkeley) | ||
Sanskrit | Max Brandstadt (UC Berkeley), Khenpo Yeshi (UC Berkeley) | ||
Tamil | Sohini Pillai (UC Berkeley) | ||
Summer | Hindi | Samuel Cushman (UC Santa Cruz), Ralph Gustav Steinhardt (UC Berkeley), Sarah Schear (UC Berkeley) | |
Assamese | Derrika Hunt (UC Berkeley) | ||
Bengali | Rachael Hyland (UC Berkeley) | ||
Sanskrit | Mauricio Najarro (UC Berkeley), Jolisa Wilfong (UC Berkeley) | ||
Tamil | Helena Reddington (McGill) | ||
2015 | AY | Hindi | Rachael Hyland (UC Berkeley), Christopher Hyun (UC Berkeley) |
Sanskrit | Khenpo Yeshi (UC Berkeley) I appreciate greatly that FLAS fellowship has been helping me to complete my M.A. program as its second-year recipient in Sanskrit language training. FLAS award not only provides the opportunity for me to acquire the necessary skill of Sanskrit language for my research in early Tibetan Dzogchen history, but it also frees up precious time for me to read, to research, and to attend related seminars on campus which I would not have able to do without its financial support. I am most grateful that FLAS has been the key to putting the first of my nomad village in Tibet to complete higher education. |
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Tamil | Sarah Bakst (UC Berkeley), Erin Bennett (UC Berkeley), Ruvani Fonseca (UC Berkeley), Last summer, I attended an international conference to present the results of a study comparing the perception of a similar phonetic contrast in Hindi and Tamil by speakers of each of the two languages. My experience with the FLAS for Tamil certainly assisted me with the study. As I learned more about the language and gained more experience speaking it with native speakers, I began to have a deeper understanding of the phonological system. This gave me a much more of a context for understanding the results of the experiment than reading knowledge alone. Further, I hope to go to South India to do more Tamil research for my dissertation. Not only did studying Tamil help me develop this aspect of my dissertation, but it also gave me more confidence in carrying out out this research abroad. |
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Urdu | Nicole Hemenway (UC Berkeley), | ||
Summer | Bangla | Rachael Hyland (UC Berkeley), | |
Hindi | Erin Bennett (UC Berkeley), | ||
Malayalam | Lakshmi Eassey (UC Berkeley), | ||
Persian | Jonathan Peterson (Colorado) | ||
Sanskrit | David Bratt (UC Berkeley), Sahaj Patel (Columbia), Kellie Powell (UC Berkeley), Karl Schmid (Emory) | ||
Tamil | Allyson Czadowski (University of Illinois) | ||
Telugu | Harita Koya (NYU), | ||
2014 | AY | Hindi | Padma Maitland (UC Berkeley), Ajay Pillarisetti (UC Berkeley), William Stafford (UC Berkeley), Elizabeth Thelen (UC Berkeley), Vania Wang (UC Berkeley) |
Marathi | Gregory Goulding (UC Berkeley), Hareem Khan (University of California-Santa Barbara), Aaron Young (UC Berkeley) | ||
Sanskrit | Meghan Howard (UC Berkeley) | ||
Telugu | Anisha Gade (UC Berkeley) | ||
Urdu | Inderjit Kaur (UC Berkeley) | ||
Summer | Hindi | Joseph Albertson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Julia Corwin (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), Carly Nichols (University of Arizona), Angela Oberg (Rutgers University), Shivani Sud (UC Berkeley), Lindsay Vogt (University of California-Santa Barbara) | |
Sanskrit | Eli Sharf (Brown University), Alexander Yiannopoulos (Kathmandu University) | ||
Sinhala | Ruvani Fonseka (UC Berkeley) | ||
Tamil | Jodi Shaw (Loyola Marymount University) | ||
Telugu | Kristina Rogahn (UC Berkeley): | ||
Urdu | Sarah Fasano (Connecticut College), Jaslina Paintal (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | ||
2013 | AY | Hindi | Padma Maitland (UC Berkeley), Maria Montano (UC Berkeley), William Stafford (UC Berkeley), Prithvi Trivedi (UC Berkeley) |
Sanskrit | Catherine Dalton (UC Berkeley) | ||
Tamil | Bharat Venkat (UC Berkeley) | ||
Urdu | Ali Hassan (UC Berkeley), Inderjit Kaur (UC Berkeley) | ||
Summer | Bangla | Ashlee Andrews (Indiana University-Bloomington), Laura Tavolacci (UC Davis), Rebecca Whittington (UC Berkeley) | |
Hindi | Nidhi Anamkath (UC Berkeley), Sarah Carson (Dartmouth College), Padma Maitland (UC Berkeley) | ||
Sanskrit | Norielle Adricula (UC Berkeley), Amanda Culp (Columbia University), Nicole Hemenway (UC Berkeley), Meghan Howard (UC Berkeley), Jonathan Peterson (University of Colorado at Boulder) | ||
Tamil | Madeline Chera (Indiana University-Bloomington), Bharat Venkat (UC Berkeley) | ||
Telugu | Hannah Archambault (UC Berkeley) | ||
2012 | AY | Bangla | Ryan Damron (UC Berkeley) |
Hindi | Padma Chirumamilla (UC Berkeley), Padma Maitland (UC Berkeley), Cheryl Young (UC Berkeley) | ||
Marathi | Vivek Virani (UC Berkeley) | ||
Sanskrit | Catherine Dalton (UC Berkeley) | ||
Tamil | Maria Packman (UC Berkeley), Lalli Venkatakrishnan (UC Berkeley), Rebecca Whittington (UC Berkeley) | ||
Urdu | David Boyk (UC Berkeley), Emma Kalb (UC Berkeley) | ||
Summer | Bangla | Kathrine Starkweather (University of Nebraska at Lincoln) | |
Hindi | Padma Maitland (UC Berkeley), Nurolhoda Bandeh-Ahmadi (UC Berkeley), Kenneth Bitner (University of Chicago), Cherish Bolton (University of California-Irvine), Kristin Franceoeur (Indiana University-Bloomington), Camille Frazier (Scripps College), Sagar Raju (Bridgewater Raritan High School), Tara Yarlagadda (Acalanes High School) | ||
Marathi | Vivek Virani (University of California-Los Angeles) | ||
Sanskrit | Kristina Anderson (Northwestern University), Vincent Burgess (University of Colorado at Boulder), Eric Gurevitch (Trinity High School New York City), Adam Krug (Naropa Institute), Aniel Mundra (University of Chicago) | ||
Urdu | Meredith Gloger (Harvard University), Katie Lazarowicz (Harvard University), Matthew Phillips (University of Chicago), Lioudmila Zaitseva (Harvard University) | ||
2011 | AY | Hindi | Padma Chirumamilla (UC Berkeley), Kashi Gomez (UC Berkeley), Emma Kalb (UC Berkeley) |
Sanskrit | Ryan Damron (UC Berkeley), Gregory Goulding (UC Berkeley), Ashwin Manthripragada (UC Berkeley) | ||
Tamil | Rebecca Whittington (UC Berkeley) | ||
Urdu | Hannah Archambault (UC Berkeley), Elizabeth Thelen (UC Berkeley) | ||
Summer | Bangla | Rahul Parson (UC Berkeley), Laura Tavolacci (UC Davis), Rebecca Whittington (UC Berkeley) | |
Hindi | Nishant Bagadia (UC Berkeley), Andre-Jacques Elias (University of Washington), Kristin Francoeur (University of Miami), Fredrick Hohlen (UC Berkeley), Adam Newman (University of Virginia), Sara Price (Oregon State University), Andrew Snyder (UC Berkeley) | ||
Sanskrit | Hillary Langberg (UC Berkeley), Jesca Scaevola (University of Missouri-Columbia) | ||
Tamil | Eleanor Power (Stanford University), Hannah Smith (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | ||
Urdu | Nurolhoda Bandeh-Ahmadi (UC Berkeley), Emma Kalb (UC Berkeley), Jeffrey Roy (University of California-Los Angeles), Dustin Smith (Harvard University) |